December 5, 11:09 AM Lake County Independent Examiner Robert Rule
If you are not familiar with States' rights you had better get educated. The people of Montana are notorious for being free (reference to the Montana Freemen). The Freemen snared the federal government in their own trap and paid dearly for it. Now the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) has written letters to gun dealers in Montana “to let them know the BATFE will be disregarding the state sovereignty law.
The Montana law like in other states was written to stop the power of the federal government bureaucracy that uses the interstate commerce laws to regulate fire arms. In Montana the law clearly states that any firearm produced in Montana now will be sold exclusively in Montana which excludes it from interstate commerce. Read entire article here.
Blogger Comment:
Many states have now passed similar resolutions. The solution is for these same states to do as the Second Amendment states, "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" [emphasis mine]. The militia was never, as gun-control politicians contend, the National Guard, which was not created until after the war between the states.
These states should 'regulate' the training and to develop the proficiency of all of their citizens who wish to participate in their state militias. Both the North and the South sent their 'militias' into the battle in the Civil War.
Minimalist Rocking chair by Montis
10 years ago
Sadly, the Supreme Court will probably overrule it using the commerce clause saying this is like the case where they ruled that a farmer who raised his crop for himself (think it was corn) was still subject to federal regs about how much he could raise.
ReplyDeleteOur Founding Fathers would be disgusted to see how far we have strayed from securing "the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" & are instead taking them away.