Posted on 04/13/2010 5:05:18 AM PDT by marktwain
Anchorage, AK --(AmmoLand.com)- The “Alaska Firearms Freedom Act” HB 186 is still sitting in the finance committee. We are on the edge of getting it passed if Senator Stedman will schedule it for hearing.
Two more states have passed this important legislation while our finance committee has been sitting on it.
I spoke with Sen Stedman’s office this morning and got no committment for hearing it. Please let him know how important you feel the Alaska Firearms Freedom Act is to you.
Now is the time to bombard each of these Committee Members with e-mails and telephone calls showing our support for this Bill being passed! Also, you may contact each Senator, individually, and lobby for them to Sponsor HB 186, again speaking of your support for this Bill being passed. Please spend a few minutes supporting this bill.
The 2nd Amendment March will be held at the Town Square (Across from the Egan) March 19th from 4:30 to 6:30. This is an open carry event. More information will be forthcoming with the next AmmoLand article.
FYI: Alaskans For Liberty will be having a Tea Party event at the Federal Building from 12:00 to 2:00 on Thursday March 15th. Bring your flags, banners and signs.
Senate Finance Committee Members:
* Chair Email : Senator_Lyman_Hoffman@legis.state.ak.us 907-465-4453 * Vice Chair Email : Senator_Bert_Stedman@legis.state.ak.us 907-465-3873 * Email : Senator_Dennis_Egan@legis.state.ak.us 907-465-4947 * Email : Senator_Johnny_Ellis@legis.state.ak.us 907-465-3704 * Email : Senator_Charlie_Huggins@legis.state.ak.us 907-465-3878 * Email : Senator_Donald_Olson@legis.state.ak.us 907-465-3707 * Email : Senator_Joe_Thomas@legis.state.ak.us 907-465-2327
Thank Mike Kelly for introducing this bill Toll-Free: 866-465-4976 Email: Representative_Mike_Kelly@legis.state.ak.us
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Upon an expected signature from the Governor, Alaska will become the 8th state to pass the act into law, joining Montana, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, Idaho, and Arizona.
The United States Constitution gives Congress the authority to regulate Interstate Commerce between the states and 18 USC 922 makes it unlawful for any person not licensed as a manufacturer or dealer in firearms to engage in the business of manufacturing or dealing in firearms. Collectively, the Interstate Commerce Clause and 18 USC 922 are used by the federal goverenment as a means to regulate firearms.
The Alaska Firearms Freedom Act addresses this by exempting firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition manufactured and retained in the state from all federal firearm control laws including registration, as firearms that meet these criteria cannot be regulated by the federal government because they have not traveled in interstate commerce.
State Rep Mike Kelly, the bill’s primary sponsor, had this to say:
“House Bill 186 frees Alaskans from overly-bureaucratic and restrictive federal firearm regulation and allows our state to assume the responsibility for regulation,” Kelly said. “The Interstate Commerce Clause is used by the federal government to regulate firearms that cross state borders. The Alaska Firearms Freedom Act makes it clear that Alaskans will be responsible for firearms that are made in Alaska for, use in Alaska, and have ‘Made in Alaska’ stamped on them.”
NULLIFICATION
The principle behind such legislation is nullification, which has a long history in the American tradition. When a state ‘nullifies’ a federal law, it is proclaiming that the law in question is void and inoperative, or ‘non-effective,’ within the boundaries of that state; or, in other words, not a law as far as the state is concerned. Implied in such legislation is that the state apparatus will enforce the act against all violations – in order to protect the liberty of the state’s citizens.
CLICK HERE to view the Tenth Amendment Center’s printable Firearms Freedom Act Brochure (pdf)
CLICK HERE to view the Tenth Amendment Center’s Firearms Freedom Act Legislative Tracking Page
Does this one have the “teeth” of some of the others?
Federal agents will be arrested and jailed if they attempt to enforce nullified federal law?
Woot!
Dunno. AFAIK there has been only one state that has added enforcement teeth to the act. Memory is not what it used to be but wasn't it Idaho?
3 to my memory - NH, Montana, Idaho
New Hampshire (the first), Wyoming, and Idaho
Wyoming. It's also in the NH bill which hasn't been passed yet.
Cool! Getting to where I’ll need a program to keep up with all the players.
Are you sure about I Da Ho? That would be great if true, but I hadn’t heard anything about it as yet.
OK, ID might not have passed it yet,
but I’m pretty sure the “teeth” clause is in there.
No, ID enacted, it was signed about a week ago. I wasn’t aware of the “teeth” clause if present.
It should have the teeth, as well as exemptions for full autos and all types of accessories, such as suppressors, M203 launchers, the Masterkey, and everything else associated with firearms of all types.
They will probably have to import from overseas all the materials to make their guns.
Sad but may be more true than not. Based on some of the SCOTUS opinions that have been rendered to date we can't ever be sure just where they might come down on any particular case; it is truly a crap shoot. I don't know but I suspect Dims began playing politics with the courts long before Pubbies were even suited up for the game. Establishing "precedents" that ran contrary to the simple language in the Constitution was a primary goal. Getting airheads installed for life aided in that effort.
So, we're occasionally left with a mish-mash of contradictory opinions that run afoul of each other. This has left us with nonsensical laws leaving us no way to rationally arrive at an educated guess what the outcome of any particular issue might be. We'd be just as well served by flipping a coin, thereby saving us a ton of money spent maintaining a dysfunctional judiciary.
Well I hear in the landmark Commerce case they ruled a guy growing veggies on his own land for his own consumption was considered involved in interstate commerce. That needs to be overturned ASAP. How stupid.
No, it was a farmer named Filburn in Oregon back in the dark days of FDR. He was growing wheat and feeding it to his own chickens. Truly a low point in Supreme Court jurisprudence. (See Dred Scott, Kelo, Raich, Bean, Casey, Roe, etc., etc.)
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