It's a 10th Amendment issue. Leave it at that.
We already have more damage being done and if you think this will not migrate to other states you would be mistaken. This needs to be enacted at the Federal level and would also make unconstitutional laws more quickly advance to the SCOTUS. It is far to long to let states like California and New York get away with this garbage and have conservatives move away only to allow these states to be totally overrun with democratic majorities.
I’m against the feds meddling in areas that belong to the states, but IMO the 2d Amendment is a federal, Constitutional issue.
US citizens should NOT be barred from keeping and bearing arms with a patchwork of state restrictions. If I buy a gun in state A, I ought to be able to travel with it anywhere in the US without a problem.
Restricting magazine size would be, IMO, unconstitutional.
This is a bit different IMHO. Aren’t all the States guaranteed a republican form of government? Setting a minimum standard of liberty in such a clear cut area would seem much different than Congress doing the opposite. And before anyone makes the argument about federal imposition of Sodomite whatever posing as marriage, that is at minimum a 10th amendment issue, but also an issue of religious freedom, freedom of association etc. People who self-identify as Sodomites were always free to marry someone of the opposite biological sex.
So, it’s OK if the states outlaw all firearms, because, after all, “it’s a 10th Amendment issue,” and to hell with what the U.S. Constitution has to say about the RKBA, or any other Amendment in the BoR ... Does that about sum up your attitude?
Yep, you’re right. There’s endless Federal meddling and ever-growing Federal power. If a state law on anything is broken, it is up to the people of that State to fix it.
It’s a SECOND AMENDMENT issue ... the state AND federal “gun control laws” are all unconstitutional.
Here's the 10th Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The gun regulations imposed by some States are "prohibited by it" (i.e., the Constitution) via the Second Amendment, which applies to the States through the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment. So this is not a 10th Amendment issue.
I don't understand your point. Federal gun control laws already apply to all the states. Do you recall the 1994 Federal AWB? NFA 34? GCA 68?
It appears this proposed law attempts to prevent states from enacting more stringent gun laws than the Feds impose. Why it's limited to long guns I have no idea. It's probably all just red meat for the base anyway. /cynical
The 10th Amendment was dead on arrival and remains dead. Maybe we should have a con-con and pass it again because the first one isn't working.