Push back from the States need to continue to keep the anti gun DC Congress Critters in check.
Via Guns
State legislatures this week in at least two states advanced measures aimed at halting current or future federal laws affecting the Second Amendment.
In Montana, the state House passed a bill by a 58-42 vote Monday to prohibit enforcement of new federal weapon and magazine bans in the state, sending it to the Senate for consideration. Meanwhile, lawmakers in an Arizona Senate committee gave their stamp of approval to similar but more expansive legislation in a 4-2 vote Tuesday. In each case, votes were largely along party lines with Republicans casting for and Democrats against.
“The intent of the law is to allow Arizona to function under Arizona’s own power and not allow any current or future federal laws that go into effect the Second Amendment to affect people who live in Arizona,” Sen. Kelli Ward, R-Lake Havasu City, told the state Senate Federalism, Mandates and Fiscal Responsibility Committee of her bill this week.
Ward’s legislation, SB 1330, makes it illegal in Arizona to enforce any federal law that the state deems to be in violation of the Second Amendment to include limits on firearms, ammunition, and accessories. Further, it withholds both financial and material support for federal investigations into firearms law violations such as those pursued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Any state or local official that does provide support would be forced out of their position or office and be “forever after ineligible” to hold a position of public trust in Arizona.
Montana’s bill, HB 203, is more narrow in its scope, aiming to prevent enforcement of any new federal firearms or magazine bans or restrictions. Like Arizona’s bill, however, it does prohibit any state funds or officers from providing assistance in investigations concerning such federal gun laws.