Posted on 05/19/2010 7:50:10 AM PDT by Still Thinking
HELENA, Mont. -- The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is joining the federal government's fight to stop states that want to exempt themselves from national gun control laws, arguing the effort threatens public safety.
The gun control advocates and the U.S. Department of Justice both filed new arguments Tuesday in the ongoing legal battle over federal gun control and states rights.
The issue was sparked with the "firearm freedoms act" first enacted in Montana last year and subsequently in several other states, and is leading to a constitutional showdown over the reach of Congress into state borders.
The states argue they should decide which rules, if any, would control the sale and purchase of guns and paraphernalia made inside their borders. The state would then be exempt from rules on federal gun registration, background checks and dealer-licensing.
Attorneys general in Montana, Utah, Alabama, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Wyoming and West Virginia subsequently signed on to help the gun advocates who launched the lawsuit last fall.
The Brady Center said that the effort is misguided, and threatens public safety by making it easier for dangerous people to get guns and potentially allowing "the sale of virtually untraceable firearms."
The group was joined by other gun control advocates, including the Montana Human Rights Network, who all argued that states with loose gun laws could allow the sale of guns to criminals who could then take them across state lines.
The Justice Department argued that the courts have already decided Congress, with its power to regulate interstate commerce, can set standards on such items as guns. It pointed to a case where the court ruled federal ban on marijuana pre-empted state rules.
"That concern is no less important here, where an illegal market for firearms exists across state lines," the federal government's court brief said in asking for a quick dismissal. "In essence, Montana will create weapons that are readily accessible to those who seek to avoid a background check, with no record of transaction and no traceable markings."
It said the firearms freedom acts would stimulate the illicit interstate market in firearms.
The gun advocates previously argued in court filings that that authorities could freely prosecute those who cross borders with guns bought under the state rules. They pointed out it would be illegal to take a made-in-Montana gun outside of that state.
Holder's brief, for those with the stomach for such things
Being from Arizona, I'll take a stand on Holder's brief without reading it. Goose, gander, delicious sauce.
If I am correct, AZ also passed a firearms freedom bill.
Very kind of you to notice. :-)
Seven states total, actually. ID, MT, WY, SD, UT, AZ, and TN.
Ping to the guns and freedom crowd!
soon 'common sense' infringements actually will be law of the land, whereas the overtly veiled fedlaw was previously king...
they are all infringements...period...
The Brady Center said that the effort is misguided, and threatens public safety by making it easier for dangerous people to get guns and potentially allowing “the sale of virtually untraceable firearms.”
Don’t they play any other kind of tune?
The Brady Center threatens public safety by making it more and more difficult for law-abiding citizens to secure the wherewithal to defend themselves against criminals.
Damn straight.
Of course it’s a well known fact that Mexican gang members, black gang members, drug dealers and thugs of every stripe have ALL booked passage to Montana in order to legally purchase thousands of weapons. If you don’t think so, just ask Eric Holder. He claims to have not read it somewhere.
Gun control laws increase the power of government and
the criminal element over the average citizen and serve
no other purpose.
- Robert E. Lee
Given the push of bad legislation that was the goal of Brady and other HATE groups... well, that led to this. Suck it up Sarah... You’re the reason this is happening. You couldn’t leave well enough alone and you are getting what goes around now.
Brady campaign is nothing more than a modern day hate group like the KKK. DOJ is promoting racist Jim Crow gun laws... Hope the minorities are happy with their votes. This is the tyranny they asked for.
As for the author of this barely coherent piece, I can only assume he must have lost his copy of our Constitution and more particularly, the Bill of Rights. As if! Just for grins I ran down another article by this dim witted propagandist in which he virtually cites chapter and verse the State law, in Montana of all places, that permits medical weed. An AP writer taking sides??? Hard to believe...
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“The Brady Center said that the effort is misguided, and threatens public safety by making it easier for dangerous people to get guns and potentially allowing “the sale of virtually untraceable firearms.”
No. You threaten public safety...
If they wanted to stop gun violence, they’d try to help prevent Mexican gangs from coming across our border.
Whether it’s border control, gun rights, or health care freedom, they are all sovereignty issues and we need to support every one by fighting federal government tyranny.
The Brady Center said that the effort is misguided, and threatens public safety by making it easier for dangerous people to get guns and potentially allowing "the sale of virtually untraceable firearms."
Speaking of 'dangerous people', I think all members, employees, and/or donors of the 'Brady Center' should be made public and accessible to anyone who wants to know who these 'people' (moonbats) are.
That list should be posted on the Internet and updated every 48 hours.
And if not complied with, punishable by a $50,000 fine and/or 20 years in federal prison.
(I want to know whom NOT to protect when the excrement hits the ventilator)
Right on. This outfit has to be a communist racist hate group if I ever saw one.
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