Posted on 03/15/2010 6:28:47 AM PDT by marktwain
Wyoming plan will fine feds $2,000 over gun rules and/or possible 2 years in jail for violations committed by federal agent enforcing U.S. regulations on firearms in the State.
Wyoming has joined a growing list of states with self-declared exemptions from federal gun regulation of weapons made, bought and used inside state borders –but lawmakers in the Cowboy State have taken the issue one step further, adopting significant penalties for federal agents attempting to enforce Washington's rules.
According to a law signed into effect yesterday by Democratic Gov. Dave Freudenthal, any agent of the U.S. who "enforces or attempts to enforce" federal gun rules on a "personal firearm" in Wyoming faces a felony conviction and a penalty of up to two years in prison and up to $2,000 in fines.
WND reported just days ago when Utah became the third state, joining Montana and Tennessee, to adopt an exemption from federal regulations for weapons built, sold and kept within state borders.
A lawsuit is pending over the Montana law, which was the first to go into effect.
But Wyoming's law goes further, stating, "Any official, agent or employee of the United States government who enforces or attempts to enforce any act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the United States government upon a personal firearm, a firearm accessory or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in Wyoming and that remains exclusively within the borders of Wyoming shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be subject to imprisonment for not more than two (2) years, a fine of not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00), or both."
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I don’t think so.
If it had been overturned, some FReepers would have been stating that every time anyone posted anything about it
(Wickard v Fillburn, FYI)
We simply need a SC decision that neuters the “interstate commerce clause” loophole the feds use.
This can be as simple a ruling as affirming what the founders intended by it -
it has to be “commerce”, it has to be “interstate”, and there has to be a dispute between the states involved in order for the feds to step in.
And Heart of Atlanta; Katzenbach (“Ollies Bar-B-Q”)
The federal govt. was created by the states, not the other way around. While the feds original intentions, to protect civil rights created under the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were salutary, now that they are using the commerce clause to infringe upon civil rights, it is time to remind them ‘who made who’.
Not to my knowledge, no.
Go Cowboys!
My favorite state.
If the item is manufactured OUTSIDE of the state and then sold and used within the state, it would fall under the interstate commerce clause (or at least that is the argument by which the Feds would claim jurisdiction for their regulations). By specifying the restriction on manufactured, sold, and kept within state borders, the state is affirming that the congressional authority to regulate interstate commerce does NOT apply and therfore any attempts to enforce federal regulation is unauthorized.
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