As progressives, rallied by the Obama administration, actively work to curb Americans’ gun rights, one state has raised it’s hand and said “Stop!”
Just last Friday, Idaho announced that it would neither enforce nor abide by federal gun laws. The move was made possible by a measure introduced in the state’s House and Senate and passed unanimously by both chambers.
The law could very well be one of the most serious challenges to the federal government’s anti-gun agenda. Per the wording of the bill, Idaho law enforcement officers would face up to $1,000 in fines as well as misdemeanor charges if they enforce federal gun laws. These punitive measures will likely go a long way in discouraging Idaho LEO’s from collaborating with feds trying to enforce gun laws in the state.
Naturally, the federal government, to say nothing of this virulently anti-gun administration, is not going to be happy about a state rejecting it’s statutes regarding gun ownership and usage. Indeed, after a similar law was passed in Kansas, former Attorney General Eric Holder, a true maven of the gun control lobby, wrote a letter to Governor Brownback threatening legal action against the state over it.
Let’s hope that Idaho is able stay strong if Obama and his goons try to stop them.
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I am constantly amazed at how people who don’t live in America feel qualified to make statements about our Constitution, and how we interpret it and live by it. Mr Neubronner, do YOURSELF a favor: worry about your own country, and how it’s about to go into the toilet because of the “refugees” that have been allowed to come into that country, and the Islamic assholes who have already been there for a few years. You have absolutely NO concept of our government, or the way we have to occasionally fight it. And if you really think$#%&!@*didn’t collect the guns first, then you don’t even read your own$#%&!@*history. Sit in your gasthaus, drink your beer, and shut the$#%&!@*about America, because you don’t know$#%&!@*about it. and neither does that South African douchebag who replied to your post first.
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This is just bait for the easily amused and nonanalytical. “Omigosh we’re standing up to The Man.”
Um, no.
1. States cannot prohibit Fed gun law enforcement by Fed agencies. PERIOD. Supremacy Clause and all that.
If any local yokels up to state AG interfere there will be a nasty
phone call from US Attorney threatening US Marshal activity
against any state/local LEs or agencies interfering with Fed
activity.
2. Anyone thinking this will result in reduced Fed gun law enforcement in such states is delusional. In fact it may attract MORE Fed enforcement. “Hey, they’re running a bit wild out there – ATF lead & US Attorney say. “Let’s pick up some easy SBR [/SBS/MG/…] violations….” And we have another Randy Weaver.
3. Most states don’t cooperate ‘that much’ on purely technical gun law enforcement w/Feds anyway – other than maybe jail space for a Fed detainee. On complex criminal matters where gun law issues are only part of the scene (i.e, gang activity/drugs/RICO,
theft/labor+immigration etc.) there are sufficient reasons for state/local as well as Fed to be involved til things are sorted – and then often the technical gun charges are dropped or at worst are uses as escalators into plead-out scenarios. This would stop
state LEs from being co-sworn as US Marshals for gun matters,
and use of LEs on raids, but there’s no shortage of US Marshals
or other Fed-sworn agents that can be ‘borrowed’.
4. And in the states where this COULD help, it won’t pass legislatively (CA/NY/MA/MD). In fact residents of those states
have much more to fear on a state/local basis than ATF worries;
the worst gun control is at state/local level and is protected (unintentionally) by the idiotic “states rightsers” who don’t understand Civil Rights and that gun rights are civil rights.
i will be glad when this dude runs out of ink.
I don’t know why it’s a big deal that a state won’t obey the federal gun dictates. I think they would be wiser to ask the people of the states. I don’t imagine there are many going to be compliant.
Good for them! Now if the other 49 will just grow some balls and tell idiot boy where to stick his gun laws.
Loyalty to the constitution not the wannabe King
WE NEED 49 MORE STATES LIKE THIS
Fall in.
Don’t know why they would obey rediculous federal laws, they don’t obey their own laws. This is not a federal law, it is one of the Obama agendas.