Posted on 03/03/2019 3:36:10 AM PST by marktwain
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico claims that background checks are Constitutional. In the Heller decision, Justice Scalia wrote that regulation of commercial sales was deemed Constitutional. The regulation of private sales has not been reviewed by the Supreme Court, to my knowledge. The Supreme Court has ruled the federal government cannot force the states to conduct background checks, at least, not without paying for them. It seems unlikely a state could require the federal government to conduct background checks for that were not required under federal law. Governor Grisham seems to have a problem with numbers:
New Mexico has 33 counties. About two-thirds of the counties in the state have passed Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions.
Ruidoso News has published there were 21 counties of the 33 in the state that had passed Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions as of 26 . From ruidosonews.com as of 26 February, 2019:
- Valencia County
- Sandoval County
- Eddy County
- Chaves County
- Otero County
- Lincoln County
- Quay County
- Union County
- Socorro County
- San Juan County
- Catron County
- Curry County
- Hidalgo County
- Sierra County
- Grant County
- Torrance County
- Rio Arriba County
- De Baca County
- Roosevelt County
- Harding County
- Luna County
About two-thirds of the counties in the state qualify as more than a “few” in my dictionary.
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So in other words, the supreme law of the land known as the US Constitution is pretty much irrelevant.
The law of man seems to be here, folks.
JoMa
16 states are Constitutional Carry states no CCW required.
I would like to see Open carry, Outside the waist holsters, instead of uncomfortable and in some cases unsafe Appendix inside the waist holsters, that have led to many shooting their junk by accident.
Really those snowflakes who see security guards, police carry weapons should just get used to seeing lawful weapons like in Israel. It takes longer to deploy a weapon under your shirt or in a fanny pack. Here in Florida its unconfortable to carry because of the heat.
Guns that are visible are a fine deter-ant of crime and protect the general public.
If we allow ourselves to be disarmed, the totalitarian globalists will force us to obey - and freedom will die. If we allow the rule of law to be degraded by ignoring instead of overturning unconstitutional laws, they still win - and freedom will die a little more slowly. Their plan to take absolute power (for our own good, of course) is well thought-out. We have to be just as committed to opposing evil as they are to embracing evil.
I lived in NM for almost 14 years.
It was 2 Dems to 1 Republican in the county I lived in for almost all of my time there. They all liked to hunt. The workers in the mines often lived in small ill kept homes, but they liked their weapons. Many of them prized their Weatherby’s.
The current Governor is a traitor to the Lujan clan. They were largely Republican when I lived there. She went off to Boston and picked up this nonsense.
Hispanics in NM are largely Dems. They are very corrupt at all levels of government. But they do not support gun grabbers.
I moved away from NM in 1986. Have only been back a few times since.
Somebody who holds an open carry needs to use it to leverage banning states. The homo marriage craze was burst once legally “married” men from liberal states moved into states where it was not legal, and then sued (and won) to have their lawful status recognized. It seems to me such a process would work regarding guns.
The left propped a crutch on the lack of firearms in wills and property declarations of old and tried to tell us that nobody had guns way back. As usual that is their crazy make it work illogical grasping.It is because the guns were and still are highly prized and passed down well before death that the government has no accounting of them.
Let’s keep it that way, old folks buy guns too.
The Supreme Court has refused to hear Second Amendment cases for eight years.
That is now changing. Here is a recent article.
I wonder if someone with intelligence asked the Gov how many guns were used by criminals that avoid background checks (Read: Couldn’t pass a background check) and how many were used by lawful citizens that obtained them thru a private sale?
Let the implication of this sink in.
Those living in the holdout counties need to focus on the county sheriff elections. The conversation begins with a question to their candidates for sheriff if they honor their oath to preserve and protect the Consitution.
“The Supreme Court has refused to hear Second Amendment cases for eight years.”
Some discipline needs to be imposed on the SCOTUS. They should not be allowed to refuse to take cases, particularly ones involving The Bill of Rights. If I were paid what each of them gets, I would be ashamed to take the money based on what they produce. We need to have a process whereby they are TOLD “You HAVE to hear these cases.” You do not have the option of refusal.
“Needing a “sanctuary” where the US constitution is still in force.
Let the implication of this sink in.”
And also with respect to the converse. Having a “sanctuary” to ignore the Constitution. Let that also sink in. Meanwhile, our overpaid SCOTUS sits on it’s hands.
I’m sorry. But this is totally sick and perverted. We now have to have Sanctuary Counties to protect our 2nd Amendment rights. Rights given to ALL GOD-FEARING, HARD-WORKING, LAW-ABIDING AMERICAN CITIZENS. The outright treason of the these Lousy, Lunatic, lying Liberal, Leftist, Socialist/Communist Snowflakes Losers is astonishing. Every single person in Congress. In the House or the Senate, that demand more so-called “GUN CONTROL” are TRAITORS TO US, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND TO OUR REPUBLIC. THEY MUST BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE, ARRESTED, PUT ON TRIAL FOR TREASON, CONVICTED AND SENT TO PRISON, PERFERRABLY GITMO. For those who disagree with this, answer me ONE QUESTION. why is it that every time we her about this garbage of “Gun Control” is mention. NONE< NOT ONE OF THE POS’s that demand it will go after the Criminal, Illegal Aliens or Terrorists. All they do is do everything they can to remove the rights from LAW-ABIDING AMERICAN CITIZENS. WHY IS THAT?
The problem is I do not want THIS SC to take another whack at the 2nd. Roberts has dropped his mask he is going to screw us.
The Tree of Liberty thirsts.....mightily.
I was in a Way-Mart the other day and a young man was in the line with a western six shooter strapped on. No one panicked. Oregon has open carry and shall issue concealed carry, but the passed the FFL requirement to sell a weapon even to a family member.
They generally “have to” take cases where two circuit courts have different rulings. That has been part of the recent 2A court case pushes... The 9th circuit has a slew of bad 2A rulings - I don’t just mean bad for Civil Rights but too clever by half in the way they wrote their opinions as an attempt to avoid issuing a ruling that would create such a conflict.
If the SCOTUS is going to kill time, they should work it to death!! I am long past tired of these overpaid turds dearth of decisions. I am further way, way tired of all these rulings that make about as big an impact as trying to find out how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. That we do not have a definitive, Constitutionally-founded decision on the Second and Fourteenth Amendments at this point in our history, should be grounds for impeaching all of them. Fire all their law clerks and force them to do the research for their decisions. After all they are supposedly our best and brightest legal eagles. Waiting for cases to “ripen,” yeah right, they are so ripe in most cases that they are rotten with age!
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