The fight for our 2nd amendment rights is on.
Yesterday, the Kentucky Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill forbidding the enforcement of new federal gun safety laws. State legislators in Missouri and Idaho are also fighting these federal laws.
The states are using a 19th century legal tactic called nullification – whereas states can simply declare federal laws invalid if they think the laws are unconstitutional.
It could also mean jail or fines for those who try to enforce these unconstitutional laws. The measure in Idaho, which was signed by Gov. Butch Otter on March 19, would fine state or local officials who enforced federal gun control laws to fines of up to $1,000.
State legislators in Missouri and Idaho are trying to prevent the enforcement of federal gun control laws with a legal tactic called nullification – and if successful, the new laws could result in jail or fines for those who do enforce them.
The efforts in both states apparently were motivated by President Obama’s call for new federal gun control legislation last year
The measure in Idaho, signed by Gov. Butch Otter March 19, would subject state or local officials who enforced federal gun control laws to fines of up to $1,000. The new law prohibits state officials from enforcing “federal executive orders, agency orders, statutes, laws, rules, or regulations” enacted after March 19, the effective date of the new law. It passed the state Senate, 34-0 and the House, 68-0. It was SB 1332.
“By signing this nullification bill into law, Idaho has joined an elite class of states that are telling the feds to ‘get lost’ — especially when it comes to unconstitutional gun control infringements,” said Erich Pratt, director of communications for Gun Owners of America.
Tenth Amendment Center national communications director Mike Maharrey also applauded the Idaho law.
“This is an important first step for Idaho,” Maharrey said. “Getting this law passed will ensure that any new plans or executive orders that might be coming our way will not be enforced in Idaho. Then, once this method is established and shown to be effective, legislators can circle back and start doing the same for federal gun control already on the books. SB1332 is an important building block for protecting the 2nd Amendment in Idaho.”
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The new Idaho law rests on a doctrine called “anti-commandeering.” “Simply put,” the Tenth Amendment Center explained on its website, “the federal government cannot force states to help implement or enforce any federal act or program.”
And In Missouri, Too
Proposed legislation in Missouri would give state officials the power to arrest and jail federal agents trying to enforce federal gun laws. It passed the state Senate, 23-10.
“I am proud to say that we have passed arguably one of the strongest Second Amendment protections in the country,” State Sen. Brian Nieves (R-Washington), the sponsor of Missouri’s Second Amendment Protection Act told the Associated Press. Under the law federal agents could face a year in jail and a $1,000 fine for enforcing gun control legislation.
Governor Jay Nixon vetoed a similar bill last year, and the supporters were not able to get enough votes for a veto override.
Source: offthegridnews.com
Yesterday, the Kentucky Senate overwhelmingly approved an unconstitutional bill forbidding the enforcement of new federal gun safety laws:
Any federal law, rule, regulation, or order created on or after January 1, 2013, including any amendment or other change made after January 1, 2013, to a preexisting federal law, rule, regulation, or order, shall be unenforceable within the borders of Kentucky if the law, rule, regulation, order, amendment, or other change attempts to:
(a) Ban or restrict ownership of a semi-automatic firearm, magazine, or other firearm accessory; or
(b) Require any firearm, magazine, or other firearm accessory to be registered in any manner.
Nullification, the Nineteenth Century idea that states can simply declare federal laws invalid,cannot be squared with the Constitution’s declaration that federal law “shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.” Yet the sponsor of this unconstitutional bill, state Sen. Jared Carpenter (R-KY), claims that he can make an end-run around the Constitution because the command that duly-enacted federal law are supreme over state law “applies only if Congress is acting in pursuit of its constitutionally authorized powers, which he said wouldn’t apply to stricter gun measures.”
So should utah
C’mon, South Carolina, get on board!
so should all of the states
The BATFE routinely makes and enforces federal gun control measures arbitrarily at every whim in the form of “policies” and interpretations and reinterpretations of regulation. A California ATF office just raided a gun parts store and seized all of the parts and the customer lists, even though a local Federal Judge had issued an injunction to prevent them from doing so (they apparently went around the judge and got another to allow it, so there is more to it then meets the eye). They did this supposedly to enforce a hazy interpretation of a law that deems it illegal to sell AR15 upper receivers. This was a lower reciver. It also has to do with the percentage of the parts that are manufactured in the US. If it is over 80%, it is legal, if not it is technically illegal. This is something that needs to be determined by courts and experts if they insist on making an issue of this–thus the injunction. It is clearly an abuse of power and overreaching, likely as a result of the promised pen and phone techniques from the first executive’s office.
Back off Democrats This is America not Cuba??
So should Maine…. I like the fact they can’t take our guns and will never give my guns up
god bless those states wish ours would the people are fighting we have some state police refusing to enforce this also in our state but we are liberal and our state govt is demo liberal so we have lots of work to do this fall. so far our town went straight republican for the first time in years and years so there is still hope. Bloominthall is disappointment he joined the liberals soo n as he got to DC he was a great attorney general but not a great senator doesn’t listen says thanks for input then goes on how heis is doing the opposite. didn’t take him long to learn from the good ol boys.
Good lets send a message to that dumb ASS Obama that we are done with him and his IDIOT Administration!!!
The wheels are coming off the phony kenyan’s little red wagon. The treasonous piece of $#%&!@*.
Hope more states will follow