Posted on 03/29/2013 8:45:49 PM PDT by Red Steel
Soon will be able to enforce Obama gun laws without sheriffs' help
A bill is heading to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s desk that Republican lawmakers say would give members of the Secret Service broad arrest powers in the state and could provide a framework for federal agents eventually to enforce gun restrictions.
“This is absolutely insane,” Rep. Lori Saine, R-Dacono, said. “In theory if a Secret Service agent is in a county where the sheriff has refused to enforce some of the recent unenforceable gun laws, the agent could arrest an individual if he believes the law has been broken.”
The idea actually aligns with an Obama agenda to create vast new restrictions and regulations on guns. WND has reported that hundreds of sheriffs nationwide, including many in Colorado, have said they cannot enforce federal restrictions that would violate the Second Amendment.
In Colorado, Weld County Sheriff John Cooke said he and many other county sheriffs “won’t bother” with several laws poised to go into effect in Colorado because they would be impossible to enforce.
One of the laws would require private sellers to do a background check on purchasers in private gun transaction, but the sheriffs wonder how to keep track of whether gun owners are meeting the new requirements.
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The new bill regarding the Secret Service, SB-13-013, passed on a nearly party line vote in the Democrat-controlled House and is now awaiting the governor’s signature. The bill grants members of the Secret Service arrest powers by considering them to be a peace officer, putting them on a par with state law-enforcement officials with respect to arrest authority.
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Yes, it could. It occurred to me that our recalcitrant Sheriffs might likely be the first targets rather than us Joe Blow gun owners. Totalitarians like to send messages. I will be keeping myself very aware of any “problems” CO Sheriffs have going forward.
My point is the US Secret Service has two areas of responsibility. Financial Crimes and protecting the President and family.
Unless Colorado has some sort of SS internal to the state I am confused.
That’s very possible.
They’re going to start pulling all sorts of stunts and they’ll do their best to make it look like we’re behind it.
The idiots will fall for it.
My Great Grandparents settled in the Salida area in 1859.
Parasites don’t generally worry about the host’s health. They figure they’ll just infest another when the current one starts to die, as they have in CO and are working to do in TX.
Texas scares me. If we lose Texas, it’s very bad.
That’s what you get when you allow your state to be infiltrated by people from California and liberals that flock to Boulder. Good luck
Can a sheriff arrest a governor for treason?
I don’t think most of our Sheriffs will fall for it though and when they get in a pinch with the FedMob we’ll have to let them know we have their backs.
I understand your good points. You’re right.
Beautiful area. Great fishing. You must be wondering WTH as well.
Yep, WTH!
This should be fun with Obungu’s new affirmative action oriented Secret Service. Sending these jamokes into rural Colorado to arrest gun owners will be pop corn time.
I don’t think most of our Sheriffs will fall for it though and when they get in a pinch with the FedMob we’ll have to let them know we have their backs.
Yes! we must let our Sheriff’s know that we back them and we’ll be there when needed.
good point but i think serious insect parasites tend to bleed their host in a measured way to keep it alive
Enabling Acts. Rings a bell.
More fun than a white Humvee full of blue helmets! ;^)
This idea didn’t come from the local level in Colorado, I’ll wager. This is Eric Holder, Jim Messina or David Axelrod level thinking.
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