Posted on 12/07/2014 2:26:10 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
On December 1, Texas state representative Matthew Krause (R-Ft. Worth) introduced legislation barring the in-state enforcement of nearly any federal gun control measure "past, present or future."
The legislation, HB422, "requires the state to refuse to enforce" federal gun control measures which infringe on the exercise of the Second Amendment.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
BUMP!
EXCELLENT!!!
I suspect that this bill might fail if it is as absolute as the headline. I like its spirit, but I question its Constitutionality.
It makes my day to get a bump from the JimRob!
High five!
1. “Sanctuary Cities” - Numerous cities simply decided they didn’t like some federal laws. They refuse to enforce them.
2. Pot-head Cities - ditto.
3. Dictator Prez - Digs homo marriage, hates numerous other laws. They bum him out, so he orders people not to enforce them. They’re yucky and not groovy, so THERE.
SO:
WHY NOT THIS ALSO...??
Hope it passes!
Several Open Carry bills up to0. We’ll see. Dems have manage to kill several pro Second Amendment bills in the past.
With help from Republicans Dewhurst and Straus.
/johnny
“...but I question its Constitutionality.”
Constitution? We still have one of those?
Doesn’t go far enough.
“Shall not be infringed” is absolute.
That’s the rumour. :)
But it is a start in the right direction!
This will not get anywhere, and he knows it, because of one guy. Joe Straus, the speaker of the Texas House, is only nominally a Republican. He became speaker with a small group of Republican liberals, and all the Democrats voting for him.
He is against any gun liberty, he is pro-abortion, he is opposed to conservative anything. And he was just reelected by an even larger minority of Republican liberals and all the Democrats again.
He is the guy preventing Texans from open carry. He is an obstacle to any substantial reform in Texas. He is a pest.
That’s for individual rights. But I’m talking about the interplay between the feds and states as to whether the state has absolute authority within its borders to nullify all federal legislation.
From email from TX GOP
“Today Republicans hold approximately 7 out of every 10 offices around state”
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GOP gained a net increase of 360 Republican office holders with the November 4th election.
but you are absolutely right about Straus.
He was responsible for a lot of bills dying.
/johnny
Glad to see this kind of legislation but don’t see how it will work.
My state amended its Constitution specifically to bar homo marriage and, after a decade or so, a single judge wiped that away with a penstroke.
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