Now that’s funny!
The lawsuit says that a state law enforcing the Constitution is unconstitutional because it might conflict with unconstitutional federal laws.
Kansas law is just as unconstitutional as the 10th amendment says it is.
Suck eggs, BITCH!
While Obama acts to nullify Federal immigration laws, among many others...
In order to enforce a law such as this then the state of Kansas has to be willing to tell any and every judge to stuff it when such judges rule against it.
The Brady Campaign points out that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has already written a letter to Governor Brownback claiming the law is unconstitutional. In the letter, Holder compares the nullification of federal gun laws to the fight against the "integration of black students into all-white schools in the 1950s."
Do these people even listen to themselves talk? How is a state saying that it's going to force the federal government to abide by its own rules (the Constitution) the same thing as opposing integration? Brown v. Topeka Board of Education--the case to which Holder is referring in a sad and pathetic attempt to attack the state of Kansas for once again being on the wrong side--was a case which revolved around the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection clause. By having segregated schools, Chief Justice Warren argued that the Board of Education was violating this clause because separate schools are inherently unequal.
So how does the Fourteenth Amendment apply to this case? In this instance, Kansas passed a law which makes federal firearms-related laws unenforceable within its borders. Does this violate the Fourteenth Amendment? I'm no Constitutional scholar (which may be a good thing, considering what the Constitutional-Scholar-in-Chief's been doing with the Constitution!) but I would argue that the Fourteenth Amendment only applies insofar as a law would "abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States" (Sec. 1, Amendment XIV).
So, is there a "privilege or immunity" which is being taken away by this law? Absolutely not; there is only a "privilege or immunity" which is being protected--and not just for some citizens (a la segregation), but for all citizens. Whatever sad liberals the Brady Campaign is drumming up from the People's Republik of Lawrence to use in this case are not having any "privileges or immunities" taken away by this law! In fact, their "privilege or immunity" of having the Second Amendment apply to them is being protected.
Of course, calling the Second Amendment a "privilege or immunity" protected by the Fourteenth Amendment really does the Second Amendment a disservice. "The right of the people to keep and bear arms" is not a "privilege"; it is a "right." So if the Fourteenth Amendment applies to this case at all, it is only in defending the right of the state to safeguard the rights of its people from laws which would "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" (Sec. 1, Amendment XIV). That those laws are passed by the Federal, rather than State, Government is irrelevant; the Ninth and Tenth Amendments still protect the people and states from laws that deprive us of our rights.
Long story short, the case simply put revolves around the Second Amendment. And in this case, the State of Kansas is on the side of the Constitution. Mr. Holder would be better served to read the Constitution and enforce it himself instead of trying to bully states into joining him in violating it.
Saying that it “makes it a felony to attempt to enforce federal gun laws in Kansas” is a bit misleading. The act applies only to firearms manufactured in Kansas, sold in Kansas, and owned in Kansas.