This is the second MO county to do this. I hope mine does too.
In addition to federal law enforcement officers informing the accused of the accusation under the 6th Amendment, federal law enforcement officers also need to be required to inform the accused of the numbered constitutional clause that the law is based on as per Clause 2 of Article VI.
"Article VI, Clause 2: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof [emphasis added]; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
"6th Amendment: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation [emphasis added]; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence."
Congress's militia-specific powers enumerated in the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I aside, it remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds the specific power to make peacetime, restrictive gun laws.
In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, the main author of the 14th Amendment (14A), had clarified that, up to the time of 14A, the states had never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to make peacetime gun laws, not even for murder.
"Our Constitution never conferred upon the Congress of the United States the power - sacred as life is, first as it is before all other rights which pertain to man on this side of the grave - to protect it in time of peace by the terrors of the penal code within organized states; and Congress has never attempted to do it. There never was a law upon the United States statute-book to punish the murderer for taking away in time of peace the life of the noblest, and the most unoffending, as well, of your citizens, within the limits of any State of the Union. The protection of the citizen in that respect was left to the respective States, and there the power is to-day [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe. (See bottom half of third column.)
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The great irony of 14A regarding peacetime federal gun laws is this. In stark contrast to desperate federal elite Democratic and RINO politicians promising low-information voters restrictive gun laws in order to help them stay in power, 14A actually limits Congress to making gun laws that STRENGTHEN all constitutionally enumerated rights, including 2nd Amendment (2A), from abridgment by state actors.
Excerpted from the 14th Amendment:
"Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
In fact, the congressional record also shows that Bingham had included 2A when he read the Bill of Rights as main examples of rights that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect from abridgment by state actors.
John Bingham, Congressional Globe. (See 2nd Amendment (Article II) about in middle of 2nd column.)
All that being said, 19th century Supreme Court justices had indicated, paraphrased for today's context, that even if the feds somehow took 2A away, it remains that the states have never expressly given the feds the specific power to make peacetime restrictive gun laws, not that the current corrupt Congress is concerned about its constitutionally limited powers.
"The government of the United States is one of delegated powers alone. Its authority is defined and limited by the Constitution. All powers not granted to it by that instrument are reserved to the States or the people [emphasis added]. No rights can be acquired under the constitution or laws of the United States, except such as the government of the United States has the authority to grant or secure. All that cannot be so granted or secured are left under the protection of the States." —United States v. Cruikshank, Et Al."
"The second and tenth counts are equally defective. The right there specified is that of 'bearing arms for a lawful purpose.' This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence [emphasis added]. The second amendment declares that it shall not be infringed; but this, as has been seen, means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress. […] —United States v. Cruikshank, Et Al."
It is disturbing that federal peacetime gun regulations seem to have started appearing in the books during FDR Administration, FDR and the Congress at that time infamous for making laws which they had no express constitutional authority to make.
Franklin Roosevelt: The Father of Gun Control
Again, federal law enforcement officers, including non-elected bureaucrats, need to clarify specific constitutional clauses to justify their actions.
Finally, a bunch of desperate Democratic and RINO lawmakers need to lose their jobs under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment for promoting overreach of the fed's constitutionally limited powers imo.
"14th Amendment, Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same [emphasis added], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Corrections, insights welcome.