Posted on 03/09/2018 4:06:29 PM PST by Jed Eckert
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — UPDATE (6:15 p.m.):
The National Rifle Association has filed a federal lawsuit over gun control legislation Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed, saying it violates the Second Amendment by raising the age to buy guns from 18 to 21.
The lawsuit came just hours after Gov. Scott, a Republican, signed the compromise bill Friday afternoon.
Lawyers for the NRA want a federal judge to block the new age restriction from taking effect.
The new legislation raises the minimum age to buy rifles from 18 to 21, extends a three-day waiting period for handgun purchases to include long guns and bans bump stocks that allow guns to mimic fully automatic fire. It also creates a so-called "guardian" program that enables teachers and other school employees to carry handguns.
The new measures come in the wake of the Feb. 14 shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people.
....more at link
(Excerpt) Read more at whsv.com ...
“The GOP is so worthless. If they can’t even support gun rights, what good are they?”
Then raise the voting age (and enlistment age) back up to 21 - if one can't be trusted with one responsibility, one can't be trusted with any of them - especially voting...
Excellent!!! I joined the NRA 1 week after Parkland. Saw the direction the idiots were going.
What you propose is a losing proposition borne of ignorance
America has a two party system
Disgruntled malcontents need to choose one of the two and accept responsibility for loss when they do not vote
Check out the 12 mug shots/ages of shooters at post link ....
All but Sandy Hook shooter are 21 or over ..... SH shooter STOLE his gun from his mother, didn’t buy it himself. The “over 21” is a knee jerk/feel good provision in the law that will not stop shooters, yet once again will restrict lawful people from being able to defend themselves. I saw one comment that said it’s like getting a vasectomy so your neighbor will stop having kids.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3637556/posts?page=19#14
Well said.
Marco was very explicit in regard to the new Florida gun law...You have to be 21 to BUY a gun but not to use a gun.
What Trump has done is start a 3rd party within the umbrella of the Republican Party. His base is his own and the old base is under constant revision.....aka....some are coming around.
I bet these people are furiously supportive of the measure too, hypocrisy is so rampant in the Democratic party it’s embarrassing to witness. If memory serves Pelosi was advocating lowering the voting age to 16 as well.
http://www.youthrights.org/issues/voting-age/top-ten-reasons-to-lower-the-voting-age/
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof...shall be the supreme Law of the Land.U.S. Constitution, Art. VI, Clause 2.
The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land and trumps federal law.
[T]he right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.Id., Amendment II.
The Constitution does not grant ANY rights to the states or the people. It PROTECTS the PRE-EXISTING rights of the states and the people against federal incursion or "infringement".
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.Id., Amendment X.
All rights not expressly delegated to the feds or prohibited to the states are RESERVED to the states and the people. The Constitution delegates NO authority to the feds regarding gun regulations, nor does it prohibit bearing arms to the states. Quite the opposite. The Constitution REMINDS the feds - HANDS OFF regarding the right to bear arms. The right to bear arms is a state's issue along with all the other rights outside constitutional proscription.
Nowhere does the Constitution delegate to the feds the power to enforce all rights guaranteed under the US Constitution. Thus, the judge's decision is strictly unconstitutional, and should be ignored, voided, and nullified.
Federal courts have determined the “supremacy clause” extends all rights granted under the Constitution to all citizens and takes precedence over all state and local law to the contrary. It has been used to impose Federal Law with respect to voting rights and other civil liberties. No damn reason why it should not apply to the Second Amendment.
It has also been used to ban the bible and prayer in schools, overturn state anti-abortion laws, and force hiring quotas and so-called "gay rights". This unconstitutional doctrine invented by the federal courts has lead to a parade of horribles, the deaths of tens of millions of unborn, and threatens to extinguish individual rights - the very opposite of the constitutional presumption of our pre-existing rights to Life, Liberty and Free Pursuits, of the the Declaration of Independence.
There is no constitutional support for federal courts' determining that the feds have authority to enforce all rights. In fact this invented doctrine expressly CONTRADICTS the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the Constitution. The ONLY legitimate federal power is that which is delegated to them by the Constitution from the states and the people. Thus, if it is not a delegated power enumerated mostly in Article I, Section 8, it is NOT a federal power.
Stop supporting the death and destruction of the unconstitutional decisions and acts (AKA TYRANNY) of the federal government.
If this clause has been used to our detriment successfully, there is NO reason it should not be used to our benefit.
They could easily put in an exemption for those that are in or have been in the military.
Why? Are they any more of a citizen then any other American civilian?
Good idea, except have to get rid of "veterans" classification as potential terrorists... /s
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