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Posted: 12/28/2012 6:35:57 AM EST
This bill apparently died in committee a couple years back. I think that it's important to get this reintroduced. What's the best way to promote awareness and who are the best people to get to reintroduce this, or a similar bill with teeth, such as the Wyoming Firearms Freedom Act, quoted below:

Any official, agent or employee of the United States government who enforces or attempts to enforce any act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the United States government upon a personal firearm, a firearm accessory or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in Wyoming and that remains exclusively within the borders of Wyoming shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be subject to imprisonment for not more than two (2) years, a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), or both.
Link Posted: 12/28/2012 7:41:20 AM EST
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I love it
Link Posted: 12/28/2012 7:44:23 AM EST
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NRA actually got the bill killed when it was introduced.  The problem with these laws is that there is already a lot of supreme court precedent allowing the feds to supercede such enactments (see commerce clause ruling on avoidance of interstate commerce).  While these laws look great on paper, they don't stand up in federal courts if challenged.  In Florida, I can guarantee that such a law would be challenged by the gun banners.
Link Posted: 12/28/2012 9:17:39 AM EST
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Personally, I don't understand how the Federal government gets to regulate firearms at all.  Seems to me to a State's rights issue.  The Constitution, which supersedes everything and certainly governs the actions of the federal government, says that the right shall not be infringed.  I have no idea how the Fed can purport to regulate these firearms the way they do.  Commerce clause?  That's flimsy at best...
Link Posted: 12/28/2012 12:19:19 PM EST
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Quoted:
Personally, I don't understand how the Federal government gets to regulate firearms at all.  Seems to me to a State's rights issue.  The Constitution, which supersedes everything and certainly governs the actions of the federal government, says that the right shall not be infringed.  I have no idea how the Fed can purport to regulate these firearms the way they do.  Commerce clause?  That's flimsy at best...


The second amendment, of all the enumerated powers and limitations, is the only one that is punctuated with the phrase, "...shall not be infringed." Contrast that to the 3rd, which explicitly states, "in a manner to be prescribed by law." To paraphrase an article that I read earlier today, it is absolutely absurd to think that the framers were so concerned with protecting a recreational activity as to enumerate it before things such as quartering soldiers and search and seizure.
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