I'm listening, and the words I'm hearing are........Mini gun.
Posted on 03/09/2009 4:53:01 AM PDT by marktwain
Rep. Mike Kelly drafting bill to allow restricted firearms to be used in Alaska
By Chris Freiberg
Published Friday, March 6, 2009
FAIRBANKS — Rep. Mike Kelly told a meeting of the Second Amendment Task Force on Thursday that he is drafting a bill that would allow firearms restricted under federal law to be built and used in Alaska.
The Alaska Firearms Freedom Act, inspired by a similar bill that passed Montana’s House of Representatives, would allow someone to own firearms or components restricted by the federal government as long as they are built and kept entirely in-state.
While a 10-year ban on assault weapons expired in 2004, President Barack Obama has voiced support for making such a ban permanent. Kelly, a lifelong NRA member, said he believes Obama’s election has inspired the formation of such groups as the Second Amendment Task Force.
“When there’s a turn out of this many folks on issues like this, it’s obvious there’s some concern,” Kelly said.
Kelly said he resents such infringements on gun rights as having to go through a metal detector to enter a courthouse and said he fondly remembered his college days when he could go hunting and return to his dorm room with a firearm without any problems.
“It was absolutely as normal as can be, and I look forward to when those times return,” the Fairbanks Republican said.
Thursday’s meeting at the Friends Community Church, which drew about 400 people despite snowfall of 8 inches in some areas, was the third since the movement was started about a month ago by 24-year-old entrepreneur Schaeffer Cox.
Kelly, who defeated Cox in last year’s Republican primary for House District 7, said he anticipates good support the Alaska Firearms Freedom Act in the House but said there might be some opposition in the Senate.
Cox originally contacted Fairbanks police, Alaska State Troopers, the National Guard and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms about sending representatives to the meeting.
Fairbanks police Lt. Matt Soden briefly answered a few questions and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms sent him responses via e-mail.
Cox said local representatives from troopers and the Guard were helpful, but as he talked to people higher up, they would not cooperate with him.
The third and final person to take questions from the audience was Democratic state Sen. Joe Paskvan. While Paskvan said he was not familiar with the Alaska Firearms Freedom Act, he voiced strong support for gun rights, including conceal carry laws.
“I’m of the attitude that there’s nothing to be afraid of if you’re around people who know what they’re doing,” he said.
Following the guest speakers, Cox talked briefly about the success of the task force, which started about a month ago by word of mouth and a meeting of about 150 people at Denny’s. He said he has gotten encouraging responses from Alaska’s congressional delegation and is planning to travel around the state soon to organize similar groups in other places.
“I just sort of marched in a direction I believed in, and I looked over my shoulder and there were 1,000 people there,” he said.
The next task force meeting has been scheduled for March 15 at Friends Community Church, and Cox said he has reserved the Carlson Center for a larger event on April 29.
Texas....are you listening?
BUMP!
As I was reading this I was thinking, “I assume Palin would sign the bill.” Then I started thinking, “The sissy surrender caucus here on FR who think conservatives need to act like liberals to get elected are hoping she’ll veto it.”
The people you mention are not conservatives, but democrats or RINO’s who are opposed to conservatism, but not fascism.
SCOTUS will decide that some components were shipped to Alaska from another state and therefore the Commerce Clause will be used to shoot that idea down.
On the other hand, I believe that local farmers who sell fruit at a local farmer’s market are beyond the reach of the Agriculture Dept’s regulations. A ruling from SCOTUS is like a coin toss.
For those who do not believe that he Constitution means what it says there is always penumbras and emanations.
Hey, the steel used to make the parts was shipped to Alaska from else where. The machine tools used to shape the steel in to parts was shipped across boarders.
Let’s face it for those who consider safety more important than liberty all other considerations are secondary.
Texas has a high percentage of koolaid-drinkers. They're not a majority, but significant enough to make sure this kind of bill never sees the light of day.
In the late 70s, bitter winters and unemployment in the Northeast drove swarms of Yankees down here. Its never been the same since.
I was thinking about Texas because of brutal winters, etc., but we aren’t “koolaid-drinkers”.
Guns mounted in the window racks of pickup trucks was a common sight in Houston and Pasadena in the late 1970s. Also during that time, it was common for boys to carry folding knives to school - not concealed but openly, in belt sheaths.
This began to change with the arrival of the Yankee Horde. Now both of these once common practices are unheard of.
Texas has changed considerably in the last twenty years.
You need to ask:
Tejas….¿usted está escuchando?
I'm listening, and the words I'm hearing are........Mini gun.
I doubt it. The original ruling on such stuff, back in the '30s, was that a farmer growing grain to feed his own livestock was "affecting" interstate commerce in grain, because if he had not grown it, he would have had to buy it, and thus he affected the overall market, and thus his activity was subject to the Agricultural Department rules.
You can't make this stuff up.
Can anyone get me a copy of the legislation? I bet we can get it passed in South Carolina!
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