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To: mosaicwolf

There is no question “National Reciprocity” violates the 10th AMendment. BUT it is a good place to insert the wedge against libtards, for a change. Let us have National Reciprocity until the SCOTUS can blow it away with “The 2nd A IS ‘national reciprocity’.”


9 posted on 03/07/2018 7:23:10 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute
No, National Reciprocity does not violate the 10th Amendment because the 2nd Amendment creates a right that the states cannot take away under the 10th amendment.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

As someone with strong libertarian views, I don't appreciate gun grabbers telling me what I do or do not think about governmental powers.

10 posted on 03/07/2018 7:35:27 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: wastoute

“There is no question “National Reciprocity” violates the 10th AMendment.”


No, actually you are dead wrong.

The 2nd Amendment - which each state in existence at that time ratified along with the rest of the Bill of Rights, and which every state admitted since then ratified by implication - states: “...the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

Note that - unlike the 1st Amendment - it does NOT say, “Congress shall make no law....” It is a blanket restriction that protects the RKBA from infringement. Knowing that the Founders understood English, and that in the immediately prior Amendment they SPECIFICALLY constrained Congress - but did not restrict JUST Congress in the 2nd Amendment - it is obvious that the 2nd was intended from Day One to apply to ALL governments, everywhere in the United States. Oh, and just in case there was any doubt, the 14th Amendment fixed that (as backed up by the “McDonald” case out of Chicago, as related to firearms).

So...you are wrong: National Reciprocity legislation not only DOESN’T violate the 10th Amendment, it reinforces the 2nd Amendment.


30 posted on 03/07/2018 9:49:49 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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