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States' RightsJeff Soyer on 30 Apr 2013 03:41 pm

Alabama Joins States Rejecting New Federal Gun Control

It’s snowballing. From the Beaumont Enterprise:

The Senate passed legislation Tuesday declaring that “All federal acts, laws, orders, rules or regulations regarding firearms are a violation of the Second Amendment.” It also says federal laws in violation of the Second Amendment shall be considered null and void in Alabama. The vote was 24-6.

Somehow I doubt I’ll be seeing Vermont issue a similar (albeit symbolic) resolution like this.

States' RightsJeff Soyer on 17 Apr 2013 05:14 am

KS Governor Signs Gun Rights Bill

Kansas is joining several other states that have passed bills or resolutions regarding federal gun regulations. Alas, they are only symbolic. From My San Antonio:

Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a bill into law declaring that the federal government has no power to regulate guns manufactured, sold and kept only in Kansas.

The legislation signed Tuesday also applies to ammunition made, sold and kept in the state. The new law takes effect by the end of next week and makes it a felony for a federal agent to enforce any law, regulation, order or treaty regulating such items.

If push comes to shove, the federal government will win this one.

States' RightsJeff Soyer on 26 Feb 2013 03:54 am

Alaska Joins States Telling Fed to “‘Eff-Off”

From the Anchorage Daily News:

House Speaker Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski, is the prime sponsor of House Bill 69, which passed 31-5 on Monday after a lengthy and impassioned debate.

It declares that guns and ammunition possessed by Alaskans are exempt from federal gun laws. It also subjects federal agents to felony charges if they try to enforce any future federal ban on semi-automatic weapons or ammunition or enforce any new federal requirement for gun registration.

More at the link. Again, unfortunately, these bill and resolutions are largely symbolic. One just hopes that they have some sort of impact on Congress Critters. It’s doubtful, though. Liberals and Democrats cannot conceive of the idea that they are wrong about anything or that the concept of states’ rights still has any meaning.

States' RightsJeff Soyer on 21 Feb 2013 04:14 am

Texas Bill Would Protect Gun Owners From Fed Regs

Texas is joining a growing number of states that are (at least symbolically) telling Obama and the Feds to shove it. From Fox News:

Toth’s proposal would create a Class A misdemeanor for police officers enforcing any new federal gun regulations. It also would establish cause for the state attorney general to sue anyone who seeks to enforce new federal gun regulations.

I say symbolically because we don’t know if such laws could pass a SCOTUS review.

God forbid, of course, that the liberal flatlanders now running Vermont would pass a similar measure here.

Update: slightly related:

Guns and ammunition manufactured and kept in Oklahoma would not be subject to federal laws or regulations under a bill that a House panel approved Wednesday.

The so-called Firearms Freedom Act was one of two gun bills that the House Public Safety Committee passed. Another bill that sailed through the committee would allow private schools to develop their own rules and regulations on whether teachers and school visitors could be armed.

More details at the link.

States' RightsJeff Soyer on 10 Jan 2013 04:58 pm

WY: Firearms Protection Act

State legislators in Wyoming aren’t shrugging the gun control avalanche off. They’ve introduced a bill (H.B. No. 0104) that would tell the liberal Democrats in Washington just where they can go. I’d like to see the same thing happen in Texas. Then, I can move someplace warmer than Wyoming. From Right Side News:

Wyoming’s Firearms Protection Act, is “an act relating to firearms; providing that any federal law which attempts to ban a semi-automatic firearm or to limit the size of a magazine of a firearm or other limitation on in this state shall be unenforceable in Wyoming; providing a penalty; and providing for an effective date.” This act nullifies all federal laws made after Jan. 1, 2013.

Much more at the link. And, here’s a link to a PDF of the bill.

Vermont Gov. Shumlin has (after years of being rated “A” by gun groups) caved and said that he supports an “assault weapons” ban. ‘Effing coward.

States' RightsJeff Soyer on 12 Sep 2012 06:12 pm

NJ: A Reason to Leave the Garden State

I fled from New Jersey 18-years-ago for many reasons including the police-state mentality of their view of our nation’s constitution.

I realize that many of you are trapped there because of your job, family, situation. . . .

If, in your dreams, you think that someday New Jersey will begin to loosen-up its gun laws, well . . . you are dreaming:

Almost two-thirds of New Jersey’s registered voters think controlling gun ownership is more important than protecting gun owner rights, according to a Rutgers-Eagleton Poll released today.

That sums it up. More at the link but — that really says it all. It would be an insurmountable hurdle to try to convince that many fools that the natural right to protecting themselves, their families, their homes, should never be questioned or restricted by the state.

Move! Get out of there!

States' RightsJeff Soyer on 28 Feb 2012 06:45 am

CO: Ballot Initiative to Legalize Pot Given the OK

It’s on the ballot in Washington State and now in Colorado. From Reuters:

Colorado voters will be asked to decide whether to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in a November ballot measure, setting up a potential showdown with the federal government over America’s most commonly used illicit drug.

A supporter of the measure says:

“Marijuana prohibition is counterproductive to the health and public safety of our communities. It fuels a massive, increasingly brutal underground economy, wastes billions of dollars in scarce law enforcement resources, and makes criminals out of millions of otherwise law-abiding citizens.”

Agreed. I cannot for the life of me figure out why it is still illegal. Interestingly, the Obama administration has been far more aggressive (than the Bush one) in prosecuting medical marijuana facilities in states that allow them. I suppose they’ll go ape-shiit over recreational production and use.

States' RightsJeff Soyer on 20 Dec 2011 04:57 am

“Warning: Massachusetts Border 500 Feet”

If some state lawmakers in New Hampshire have their way, you’ll see that warning on signs posted near the Massachusetts border. From WHNT:

New Hampshire drivers who unwittingly cross the border now may find themselves breaking Massachusetts law, said Jennifer Coffey, a New Hampshire state representative from Andover, about 70 miles north of the state line.

Massachusetts requires motorcyclists to wear helmets and drivers to have automobile insurance, she said.

Massachusetts also has banned hand held cell phone use while driving and the private use of fireworks, and it has some of the most stringent gun control laws in the country.

While the idea might bring a smirk to some, is this really the right thing to do?

For instance, while it’s nice that New Hampshire hasn’t taken ‘nanny-statism’ to the extremes that Massachusetts has, is NOT requiring automobile liability insurance really something to brag about? Massachusetts could easily put up their own signs warning that the drunken N.H. driver who might crash into you has no insurance.

Also, New Hampshire businesses profit handsomely from border-crossers seeking sales-tax-free goods. Want to piss-off those Massachusetts consumers?

As with most states, there are things to like about Massachusetts including a lot of nice shoreline destinations and Berkshire Mountains resorts. And, going to a Red Sox/Bruins/Patriots game.

Skip the border wars stuff.

gun rights and States' RightsJeff Soyer on 14 Sep 2011 05:55 am

National CCW

More on the House Bill to have state gun permits recognized nationally.

States' RightsJeff Soyer on 14 Jul 2011 04:53 am

MT: Gun Activist Takes on Big Government

From the Wall Street Journal:

With a homemade .22-caliber rifle he calls the Montana Buckaroo, Gary Marbut dreams of taking down the federal regulatory state.

He’s not planning to fire his gun. Instead, he wants to sell it, free from federal laws requiring him to record transactions, pay license fees and open his business to government inspectors.

[ . . . ]

Montana passed a law that tries to exempt the state from federal gun regulation. But the law is now before the courts, in a test of states’ rights.

Read the whole thing. There’s a lot of background on the constitutional principles involved.

I wish Gary Marbut good luck in his fight.

States' RightsJeff Soyer on 20 Jun 2011 07:57 pm

Texas Sheds Light on States’ Rights

This bill, passed by Texas state lawmakers, is really quite similar to the bills, or at least the wishes, of some states that said, “Hey, a gun built in our state and sold to our citizens is not subject to federal regulation.” From Fox News:

The measure, sent to Gov. Rick Perry for consideration, lets any incandescent light bulb manufactured in Texas - and sold in that state - avoid the authority of the federal government or the repeal of the 2007 energy independence act that starts phasing out some incandescent light bulbs next year.

See, I don’t like big government. I don’t like the government — federal or state (or even local) — trying to tell me how to live my life. When a state legislature tells the feds to fuck-off about gun laws or, in this case, light bulb laws, I really like that. Vermont, with all it’s Masshole transplants, will never have the guts or even the desire to try to curtail federal regulation. That’s the problem with liberals. They all want us to “do our own thing” as long as it is the thing they want us to do. And, they love a big, nanny-state government. After all, they’re so much smarter than us and they know what’s best for us. That’s their mantra.

Now, will TX Gov. Perry sign this bill? I’ll bet, “Yes.” If he does, he’ll rise in my estimation of him. Granted, I don’t know a whole lot about him. I know that he signed a “mandatory vaccination law” and that is a minus, to me.

Would a nanny-state supporting, über-liberal Governor such as Vermont’s Shumlin support such a personal choice matter about how you light your home? Of Course Not! That would smack of personal freedom and, liberals — their hypocritical protestations aside — eschew personal freedoms be they property rights, gun rights, home schooling rights, food rights, or — in this case — light bulb rights.

I will — in the interest of personal honesty in commentary — point out that Republicans don’t fare much better in personal choice. I hate the idea of abortion because I consider it the killing of the unborn. But, there are many who don’t think as I do. I don’t wish to see the next election come down to a battle over abortion. Nor, gay rights.

I hope that the next election will focus only upon the economic problem of PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS; the real jobs, not the bullshit “make work” union jobs that Democrats have — with good reason for them — concentrated upon. Right now, that is the only real issue that matters.

States' RightsJeff Soyer on 21 Feb 2011 06:32 am

N.H. House Passes Home-Grown Gun Bill

Taking a cue from Montana and Tennessee, guns that are manufactured in, sold only to state residents and used only in New Hampshire would be exempt from federal gun laws such as NICS checks. From the Nashua Telegraph:

A bill that cleared the state House of Representatives last week would make sure such weapons are free from federal regulations, background disclosures or taxes.

Any federal law enforcement agent attempting to impose the laws of the United States on these “New Hampshire only” weapons could be arrested and charged with a felony, if the “Made in New Hampshire” gun law clears the Senate and is signed into law.

This will pass in the state Senate but I doubt that Gov. Lynch will sign it. [I] don’t know if the votes were/will be veto-proof.

This is, of course, symbolic more than anything else. I’m sure that a federal court would strike it down quickly. Still, the symbolism counts for something . . .

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