Posted on 10/02/2023 4:16:21 AM PDT by marktwain
Gary Marbut and the Montana Shooting Sports Association (MSSA) have scored another victory in restoring the right to keep and bear arms in Montana. The Montana Urban Transportation District (MUTD) has removed its ban on the carry or transport of weapons on the vehicles of the Mountain Line in Missoula. Gary Marbut is the right to keep and bear arms guru in Montana. He is responsible for writing and passing most of the Montana gun laws. Those laws have done a great deal to restore the right to keep and bear arms (RKBA).
In 2016, MSSA requested MUTD remove its unconstitutional policy banning weapons from its buses. In January of 2016, MUTD counsel claimed the policy was legal and desirable. Counsel recommended that MUTD keep the policy. Seven years later, on February 27, 2023, Gary Marbut wrote to MUTD, stating the MSSA would no longer tolerate their unconstitutional policies. From progunleaders.org:
MUDT articulates the policy that, “The following items are prohibited on Mountain Line:” “Firearms, BB guns, air guns, knives.”
The purpose of this communication is to inform you that this policy violates both the Montana and U.S. constitutions, and that MUTD lacks the authority under Montana law to adopt, articulate, or enforce such a policy. We respectfully request that you remove this policy from whatever policy set MUTD has adopted, remove this policy from the MUDT Website, cease enforcing this policy, and conduct whatever training may be necessary to insure that MUDT staff understand the de-adoption and enforcement termination of this policy.
Much has happened in seven years. On November 3, 2020, the voters approved of legislative initiative LR-130. LR-130 amended the Montana Code Annotated Section 7-1-111.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Nice win...many more to come.
Someone needs to send this message to Slo Joe O’biden in the White Hut.
He has a cabal plotting gun confiscation at this moment. They are laying legal traps to create felons.
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