Missouri may be joining the coalition of states
standing up for the 2nd and 10th Amendments
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Missouri State Representative Cynthia Davis (R-19th District) has pre-filed (introduced for the 2010 session, in other words) Missouri House Bill 1230, the "Firearms Freedom Act."
Here's the summary:
This bill establishes the Missouri Firearms Freedom Act. In its main provisions, the bill:
(1) Asserts the right of the State of Missouri to regulate the intrastate use and acquisition of certain firearms pursuant to the reserved powers of the state over intrastate commerce and the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms;
(2) Specifies that certain personal firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition manufactured in Missouri will not be subject to federal law or regulation;
The bill also makes clear that National Firearms Act laws governing machine guns, cannons, etc., will not be affected by this law, and requires that any Missouri-made firearms, ammunition, and firearms accessories to be traded under this legislation, rather than under the federal regulations, must be stamped with "Made in MIssouri."
The bill is, in other words, a virtual copy of legislation that has already passed in Montana and Tennessee, and is being considered elsewhere.
The BATFE, as is typical of a federal government agency, is not taking kindly to what the Justice Department sees as an encroachment on its rightful power. The court fight is starting to take shape in Montana, with the Montana Shooting Sports Association (MSSA) and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) having filed a lawsuit in federal court (but note the large dog who is not barking).
Given the Supreme Court's long history of granting Congress nearly unlimited power to regulate, well . . . everything, through the "interstate commerce clause," many are holding out little hope that the states will prevail in this skirmish, either. Still, even a courtroom defeat will not be the end of this. The Tenth Amendment Center explains.
While some advocates concede that a federal court battle has a slim chance of success, they point to the successful nullification of the Real ID Act as a blueprint to resist various federal laws that they see as outside the scope of the Constitution.
Some say that each successful state-level resistance to federal programs will only embolden others to try the same – resulting in an eventual shift of power from the federal government to the States and the People themselves.
I have pointed out that the Obama administration has shown some willingness to refrain from enforcement of federal law that contradicts state law--on one issue, anyway. I'm still looking forward to seeing how the administration will justify taking a much more aggressive stance when it comes to guns.
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Defeat in federal court is almost guaranteed. But with each crooked judge, each federal usurpation of power, and each illegal and immoral imposition of federal power which it is forbidden, the mask of the monster slips a bit more, so that even the dimmest among us will at some point come to realize that the monster intends to eat us.
When that realization become pandemic the feds can either surrender their stranglehold or try to apply fatal pressure to it. Either way they will lose in the end. Either way is, to me, preferable to what we now have. We just must wait for the more timid to become angrier than they are afraid.
We must wait for them to love their children more than they fear for their lives and fortunes. And we must wait for them to realize that that is exactly the proposition they are faced with.
Hence unmasking the monster though it be done through defeat in the courts is not an exercise in futility, but rather the drawing in of enemy forces until such time as they can be cut off and surrounded and devastated.
Separation of court and state is the only hope of ever *peacefully* putting the federal gargoyle back in its cave.
The REAL ID Act was never nullified. Might want to change that.
You think that laws set you free. This government steals from you here that government steals from you there and now this government says some law is different in your freedom. Your government is corrupt and will do anything to keep you slaves but you think some line on a map makes it different and you will be more free within that line.
You think about freedom but can’t think freedom because government already owns you and has made your children slaves.
You think money can buy your freedom and being American means something and you can go everywhere in the world and make people free but you get nothing back only more slavery.
Deny your government has said you are their enemy and that your government has already killed to keep you slaves but no law stopped them and government did nothing to them.
Your government is not moral and you do not know what moral is and you do not see what comes because. Many words were written and those words were from minds free to think what men must do to stay free and that is independent you are not. Then money is being independent but this is not what it is and money has made you into slaves. Government is money and takes all you have and you pay. Some person says they will go against government for your freedom and money pays them and buys them and they are government and you get more slavery. Some person says buy a book it will say the ways you are not free but the book makes you more poor and you are not more moral and the book tells you why you are not free because of government. You are not free because you are not moral and your mind thinks of laws which are not moral and you are not independent because of laws.
Sorry I couldn't find a more appropriate place to post this. I would like to make you and your readers aware of another bill before the Missouri General Assembly, SB592. The bill is supposedly about domestic violence, but it contains language about confiscating guns -- with no more burden than "probable cause". We all know how probable cause is abused to conduct searches. Everyone concerned about their gun rights should contact their state Senators. I would love to see you post a full article about this.
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