Arizona Advances Nullification of Federal Gun Laws
Via Freedom Outpost.com
Following in a long line of states that are advancing the Tenth Amendment rights of their respective states, Arizona is now advancing nullification of federal gun laws and stop state enforcement of them. Arizona State Senator Kelli Ward, along with eight co-sponsors, introduced the Second Amendment Preservation Act in the Grand Canyon State.
According to the bill, SB1294, all federal regulations which violate the Second Amendment (that would be any federal gun law) would be recognized as “invalid and void in this state.”
The
legislation also prohibits the state from enforcing “any federal act,
law, order, rule or regulation that relates to a personal firearm,
firearm accessory or ammunition within the limits of this state.”
According to the Tenth Amendment Center,
“The legislation rests on a well-established legal principle known as the anti-commandeering doctrine. Simply put, the federal government cannot force or coerce states into implementing or enforcing federal acts or regulations – constitutional or not. The anti-commandeering doctrine rests primarily on four Supreme Court cases dating back to 1842. Printz v. US serves as the cornerstone.“The federal government depends on state cooperation for almost everything it does,” Tenth Amendment Center national communications director Mike Maharrey said. “This bill rips the rug out from under it. If Arizona passes the Second Amendment Preservation Act, it will make it very difficult for the feds to violate your right to keep and bear arms. And if multiple states pass this bill, it will effectively nullify federal violations of the Second Amendment. It’s quite simple; you cannot say you support the Second Amendment and oppose this bill.”
“The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program…such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.”
Arizona Tenth Amendment state chapter coordinator Adam Henriksen agrees with Maharrey.
“Guns and Ammo magazine ranked Arizona number one for gun rights, giving our state a score of 49 out of a possible 50 points. Our legislators know that we won’t let our rights be trampled on,” he said.
Last week, Rep. Dan Eagle of Florida, introduced similar legislation in HB733 in the Sunshine State’s House.
Like the Florida legislation, the Arizona bill does not allow for criminalizing federal agents that might attempt to enforce the law in the state. This is the one thing that appears to be missing in many of the nullification laws we are seeing today. However, removal of state resources to aid the feds in enforcement of unconstitutional laws is a step in the right direction.
Judge Andrew Napolitano, speaking about the nullification legislation of Obamacare in South Carolina, said ”If the President wants Obamacare in South Carolina, the feds will have to pay for it, and the feds will have to establish it.”
The same thing applies to the federal gun law nullification legislation. No longer would state resources be used to aid the federal government in overstepping their bounds and usurping the Constitution, and thus they would be unable to fund federal enforcement of those laws.
Within the past year, Tennessee, West Virginia, Texas, Alabama, Florida and Missouri have all pushed to nullify federal gun laws. Our own Publius Huldah has communicated quite clearly why any and all federal gun laws are unconstitutional.
One has to think of the irony of this legislation, considering that Arizona was the state where the Obama administration was running guns from into the hands of Mexican drug cartels in the Fast and Furious operation.
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