Tenth Amendment - The War on Guns

No Hypocrisy

The Anti-ATF Commandeering Act has the intended purpose in its title to “prohibit the provision of material aid and support for enforcement of federal firearms laws.” House Bill 1481 bases its justification on the finding that “the United States Supreme Court has long held that states do not have to participate in the enforcement or effectuation of federal acts or regulatory programs.” [More]

So, what about states that refuse to help ICE deport illegals? Isn’t it the same thing?

The Arkansas bill supports “the supreme Law of the Land.” So-called “sanctuary” laws undermine it.

[Via Jess]

The Devils We Know

“The devil you know,” he remarked, may be preferable to sprawling bureaucracies with even more power to interfere with lawful gun ownership. [More]

Couldn’t have said it better myself…

As for “ATF, when properly managed, serves a legitimate purpose—targeting violent offenders and assisting the firearms industry in compliance,” first, compliance with what that doesn’t run afoul of “shall not be infringed”?

As for “violent offenders,” there are three crimes the feds are Constitutionally delegated power to combat, and unless the baddies are committing treason, counterfeiting, or engaged in piracy, stopping them is a power ceded to the states by the Tenth Amendment.

Everything else is usurpation compounded with corrupt stare decisis.

Time to Update Those Body Armor Bans…

Army fielding new helmet that protects against small arms fire [More]

Can “We the People” have them, or aren’t they “in common use“?

[Via WiscoDave]

A Good First Step

Georgia Bill Would Prohibit State Enforcement of Federal Gun Control; Past, Present and Future [More]

It’ll really help hamper the infringements if it passes.

The next step will be for them to become rights enforcers and arrest anyone trying to violate them.

[Via Jess]

A Temporary (?) Setback

Supreme Court refuses to reinstate Missouri Second Amendment law [More]

I suspect this is more procedural than an indication that the Tenth Amendment can be disregarded at will by using a “Supremacy Clause” excuse.

[Via Jess]

Pleading the Tenth

Missouri asks Supreme Court to revive state law barring local police from helping to enforce federal gun laws [More]

About time that ball got rolling again …

[Via Jess]

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