Montana Referendum on Preemption, LR-130 Passes

AmmoLand ^ | 9 November, 2020 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

In the 2020 general election in Montana, the referendum on firearms preemption, LR-130, passed with 51% of the vote, 296,820 to 285,942. It was close. Montana went for President Trump with 57% of the vote.

On LR-130, Bloomberg and surrogates outspent Second Amendment supporters $1,409,439.11 to $50,493.06, or 28 to 1.

The massive spending wasn't enough to keep the referendum from passing.

Montana voters have patched “loopholes” in the law which allowed local jurisdictions to pass ordinances infringing on the right to keep and bear arms.Screenshot from electionresults.mt.gov, cropped and scaled by Dean Weingarten.

Gary Marbut has been the driving force behind Second Amendment activism in Montana. He founded the Montana Shooting Sports Association (MSSA).

He explains LR-130 here:

Two current state laws limit cities’ and counties’ authority to regulate firearms, but they are not enough limitation. One law, 7-1-111(9), M.C.A., prohibits local governments from using “any power that applies to or affects the right to keep or bear arms.” BUT, it goes on to say, “‘except that a local government has the power to regulate the carrying of concealed weapons.” LR-130 will remove this “except” clause from the law.

[marktwain]

Bloomberg and surrogates spent 1.4 million, 28 times what the Second Amendment supporters spent.

The preemption referendum passed, but it was close.

It means towns like Missoula will not be able to infringe on the right to keep and bear arms.

[Gay State Conservative]

The only legislative body that should be able to regulate firearms in *any* way is the United States Congress.

[Red in Blue PA]

We have preeemtption in PA but dem cities ignore it. As has been witnessed over the past week, dems make their own laws.

Democrats are enemies to this nation.

[sauropod]

Given the current state of CONgress, that would be no protection.

[Gay State Conservative]

Perhaps not...but I refer you to “Caetano v Massachusetts” as a source of hope that at least SCOTUS understands what “shall not be infringed” means.In that case SCOTUS overturned,by a 9-0 vote,a ruling by the Massachusetts State Supreme Court which denied Caetano her basic 2nd Amendment rights.

[Wuli]

Biden did not “win”, his folks rigged the votes. from every possible avenue of voting fraud.

Not only was there no blue wave, anywhere in the country, there was a repudiation of it all over the country, from state offices to referendums and propositions to the absence of the Dims taking the U.S. Senate or increasing their share of the House.

In that vein, there was no place for Biden to totally out perform every Dim office and question below him.