Utah Gov. Gary Herbert Will Embrace Federal Gun Control Laws

The New American ^ | 03 February 2013 | Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

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Utah Governor Gary Herbert criticized efforts to oppose federal firearms restrictions and declared that Utah will obey federal gun control laws.

Utah Governor: "Utah Will Adhere to the Law" and Obey Federal Gun Laws


The New American
03 February 2013


As courageous state legislators enlist in the fight to repel the federal government's assault on the Second Amendment, the governor of one western state is telling a liberty-minded state representative to stand down.

Governor Gary Herbert of Utah recently called a pro-gun rights bill sponsored by a Utah state representative "an exaggeration" and encouraged the lawmaker to "adhere to the law."

This is not the level of support citizens of the Beehive State would expect from the man they elected to lead their state.

Herbert was specifically criticizing a measure offered by first-term Representative Brian Greene (R-Pleasant Grove). The bill is titled the State Supremacy Firearms Act.
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[Yardstick]

But the premise was accepted long ago that the feds could regulate firearms despite the “shall not be infringed” language. You can’t own bazookas and machine guns, for instance. So we’re on the slippery slope and it’s just a matter of where the line will be drawn. Unfortunately in this mean old world of ours you can’t rely on words written on paper to hold the line. Everything is a fight.

[depressed in 06]

Does Utah have a recall procedure?

[phockthis]

sfl

[ApplegateRanch]

Governor, you may want to recheck the meaning of “free state” as used in 2-A; hint: it isn’t the federal government. Second hint: it has nothing to do with slavery.

[NewJerseyJoe]

P4L

[Auntie Dem]

Why can't we own bazookas and machine guns? The 2nd Amendment was about the citizens being able to bear MILITARY arms. In the 1700’s private citizens owned cannons—a military weapon.

If we can't own machine guns then the New York Times can't print their paper on high-speed web presses, ABC, NBC, and CBS can't broadcast on radio and TV because those technologies didn't exist when the 1st Amendment was written. And when you get right down to it the media shouldn't be able to report on mass shootings because their reporting causes copy-cats to create new shootings.

I ask the rhetorical question, but I know the answer...our judiciary has become corrupted, like the rest of our government, and they can't make a constitutionally correct decision anymore because none of the justices have any moral character.