[Jim W N]

This isn’t about the Constitution being “abstract” but who the Constitution protects, who it stands against, and who may enforce it.

The ONLY valid federal act is one that is constitutional. NOTHING in the Constitution says the feds are the only ones to say something is or isn’t constitutional. In fact the presumptions of the Constitution along with the Supremacy Clause and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments SUPPORT state nullification of unconstitutional federal acts.

Here, Oregon is going to have to battle this issue out. But the feds have NO constitutional authority to interfere AT ALL.

[drypowder]

you made my point

[backwoods-engineer]

But the feds have NO constitutional authority to interfere AT ALL. One little nit to pick on this: actually, the Federal government is supposed to prevent the states from infringing the rights of the states' residents. There are a number of Supreme Court cases holding this. If the Feds were doing their jobs, they would send SWAT teams to arrest state officials for deprivation of civil rights under color of law, and then burn every gun registry from New York to Illinois.