Posted on 03/29/2013 8:45:49 PM PDT by Red Steel
Soon will be able to enforce Obama gun laws without sheriffs' help
A bill is heading to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s desk that Republican lawmakers say would give members of the Secret Service broad arrest powers in the state and could provide a framework for federal agents eventually to enforce gun restrictions.
“This is absolutely insane,” Rep. Lori Saine, R-Dacono, said. “In theory if a Secret Service agent is in a county where the sheriff has refused to enforce some of the recent unenforceable gun laws, the agent could arrest an individual if he believes the law has been broken.”
The idea actually aligns with an Obama agenda to create vast new restrictions and regulations on guns. WND has reported that hundreds of sheriffs nationwide, including many in Colorado, have said they cannot enforce federal restrictions that would violate the Second Amendment.
In Colorado, Weld County Sheriff John Cooke said he and many other county sheriffs “won’t bother” with several laws poised to go into effect in Colorado because they would be impossible to enforce.
One of the laws would require private sellers to do a background check on purchasers in private gun transaction, but the sheriffs wonder how to keep track of whether gun owners are meeting the new requirements.
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The new bill regarding the Secret Service, SB-13-013, passed on a nearly party line vote in the Democrat-controlled House and is now awaiting the governor’s signature. The bill grants members of the Secret Service arrest powers by considering them to be a peace officer, putting them on a par with state law-enforcement officials with respect to arrest authority.
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He’s standing up to the Feds.
ENFORCE THE BILL OF RIGHTS....It’s the Law.
He’s doing what he can in his county.He arrests illegals every day.
I read SB-13-013, it is almost like a reversal of the unfunded mandate the Feds like to push off to the States.
It does grant authority to the US SS to enforce Colorado State Law. That is very strange. Why would a State grant power to a Federal agency not knowing if they wanted it?
The only thing it can be is Colorado already knows the SS will be glad to rush in.
.He arrests illegals every day.
Need no limit no bag no closed season or something...hell, we got hungry buzzards.
Happy Easter from Arizona.
It’s disgusting and frustrating.
I have a brother in Tuscon and he says the same exact thing.
Nazism.
You know the governor is in deep **** when the boy has to pass a law requesting that the SS come in to the state to get the population under control.
This is something I can't fathom with the Liberal mind. They leave CA, because their laws have helped destroy it. They move the CO, enact the same laws, and mystery of mystery, the same thing happens again. Apparently Liberals are incapable of understanding cause and effect.
Texas will not be subjected. Not going to happen.
As I remember there is already an petition being circulated to Remove the CO Governor.
Crazy as a Hickenlooper.
That phrase should become part of the vernacular.
‘”Guidelines” and “current policies” are very easy to change. Obama can change them in a DC minute.’
All that will be required of the SS agents will be:
Obedience.
An armed standoff between sheriff’s deputies and SS agents is entirely possible. All it would take is involved citizens.
“Report any suspicious persons, vehicles or activities to your local sheriff’s department.”
The SS surrounds a home. County deputies surround the SS. Bystanders with Iphones record the proceedings. Take it from there.
And Obama sics Holder on States who attempt to enforce Federal immigration laws. I cannot begin to put into words how much I HATE this administration.
Democrats launch plan to turn Texas blue
… The organization, dubbed “Battleground Texas,” plans to engage the state’s rapidly growing Latino population, as well as African-American voters and other Democratic-leaning constituencies that have been underrepresented at the ballot box in recent cycles.
Oh.... you mean like a politician?
Exactly!
“that have been underrepresented at the ballot box in recent cycles”
No they have not. In places like Houston, Austin, Dallas, parts of San Antonio; voter fraud is very present.
The reason that Texas is different is the culture. Even the Dems don’t want gun grabs. There have always been Tejanos and Gringos who love and fought for Texas. It is the idiot element that supports La Raza.
Colorado is similar, but for the CA imports that have destroyed the cities.
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