Posted on 08/27/2009 12:34:31 AM PDT by Ron C.
'This is an issue where the federal government has no business'
Montana statehouse
Supporters of a first-of-a-kind law in Montana that declared weapons or ammunition made and kept in the state were exempt from federal rules are preparing for a court challenge to the federal government's insistence it will regulate those items.
The Montana Shooting Sports Association and the Second Amendment Foundation have formed a strategic alliance with plans to litigate over the Montana Firearms Freedom Act.
The bill was passed by the 2009 Montana Legislature and signed into law by Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Iraq, Afganistan, S. Korea, Germany, Japan...
How many combat divisions are still stationed in CONUS? How many NG units are not already deployed overseas and are available and able to respond? Ever wonder why Zero has not brought the troops home as promised during the campaign?
As luck will have it, things may be developing too quickly for President Zero's proposed National Thug Corps to be organized against the people and, as another poster pointed out, even Japan at the height of her power hesitated to send troops ashore here. I think UN "Peace keepers" would be equally reticent.
Personally, I know what I would do if I saw blue helmets in my town.
Are you my brother?
here’s an easier way to do this
tell the north east to leave the union and those radical left wing nuts can stay up there in their liberal utopia, we’ll even transport the left over left wing nuts from down here to up there.
course I expect the Dems and the radical left nuts form move on, KOS, and huff post to go against this .
They would be out of pocket for their spending because we will not be paying their taxes any more.
200 years ago they spoke of independent states. I wonder where that concept went.
I didn't find much new broken ground in this article re this legislation since we've covered it on numerous other threads but I have added "our" keywords to the list so that the tag will be there for those wishing to follow along.
FWIW, it pains me to see the States having to resort to such extraordinary measures, particularly when they may in fact be weakening their AND our position as it relates to addlebrained decisions by the SCOTUS and how they have applied the "commerce clause". I could be wrong but it appears to me the States pursuing this tack are essentially conceding the ground set by "precedent" that the federales in fact have the authority to regulate anything remotely construed to be interstate commerce. I just hope better minds than mine have a better view of the bigger picture.
I don’t know if secession would lead to the best results. If the feds would just stand down and get back in their (admittedly very small) Constitutional box, we could all live together.
Exactly, who ya gonna believe, the reliable MSM or your own lying eyes?
Just be careful folks. The Rats will run for high ground as the ship is sinking. (Many of the lib areas are coastal cities with a low elevation.)
It would be open season on those troops.
Where do I apply for a green card? I need to immigrate from Vermont.
I hope you are right!
Them what’ve been watching Glen Beck this week will have already noticed that it was the left who started the Revolution...Now if we can only find our Scarlet Pimpernel.
The Federal Courts will NOT concede authority and law to the States. They have ignored the 10th Amendment for decades/
These states should form a political compact and refuse to enforce or allow to be enforced within their jurisdictions laws which they know abridge the Constitution.
By taking their case to the Federal Courts, they are doing the same thing Bush II did when he fought in the Federal Courts, the issue of Federal Court authority in the treatment of military prisoners. He recognized their authority on the subject and lost.
What about at five-for-one reprisals? I'm about halfway through Domestic Enemies and that's how the gov't broke the Tennessee resistance.
Obviously a federal court finding, if against the states, would be moot since it’s a branch of one of the parties to the fight.
What would happen? Civil War II?
I believe not. It’s a different time; different thinking; different feelings; different politics.
Different weaponry...
Look at it this way...
They can only throw those clay pots so far...
They can get around this just like the did with the ‘war on drugs’. do they mine the metal to make the guns locally? if not, ‘interstate commerce’ and congress regulates it.
except in this case the president would be on the supreme court’s side..
Judge Napolitano said on Fox several weeks ago that this is a great idea, but that unless lots of states follow suit, this might die at the appellate level in the federal courts system.
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