Wyoming Passing Legislation To Protect Gun Owners

A number of Wyoming lawmakers are proposing legislation intended to protect gun owners from any future federal ban on semi-automatic rifles or high capacity magazines, KTWO reports.

Introduced last week, the “Firearms Protection Act” would make any federal law banning semi-automatic rifles or limiting magazine capacity unenforceable in Wyoming.

In fact, under the proposed bill, anyone who tried to enforce a federal gun ban could be charged with a felony. The Wyoming Attorney General’s office would also be permitted to defend any state resident against a federal gun ban.

“An act relating to firearms; providing that any federal law which attempts to ban a semi-automatic firearm or to limit the size of a magazine of a firearm or other limitation on firearms in this state shall be unenforceable in Wyoming; proving a penalty; and providing for an effective date,” the bill states.

“Any official, agent or employee of the United States government who enforces or attempts to enforce any act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the United States government upon a personal firearm, a firearm accessory or ammunition that is owned or manufactured commercially or privately in Wyoming and that remains exclusively within the borders of Wyoming shall be guilty of a felony,” the proposed legislation adds.

Per the Washington Examiner’s Charlie Spiering:

One of the bill’s co-sponsors, Wyoming State Senator Larry Hicks, told The Washington Examiner that this type of legislation sends a message to the federal government in Washington D.C.

“It says that your one size fits all solution doesn’t comport to what a vast majority of the state believes,” Hicks explained in an interview.

Citing the Tenth and the Second Amendments, Hicks asserted that the legislation was Constitutional, adding that he fully expected it to pass in the Wyoming state legislature. Hicks said that his Wyoming constituents were upset about the looming threat of gun control coming from Washington, particularly since Vice President Biden signaled yesterday that President Obama was willing to issue an executive order to tackle the gun issue.

Hicks explained that the model of the bill was taken from a bill passed in the State of Montana in 2009 adding that it wasn’t much different from what he’d seen other states do.

Whether or not such a law would actually be effective is a topic that will likely be debated. However, the so-called “Supremacy Clause” in the U.S. Constitution says federal law overrules state law when the two conflict. Still, as we’ve seen in states that have recently legalized marijuana, like Colorado and Washington, the feds don’t always immediately exert their power over a state’s sovereignty.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/her...obama-admin-to-the-punch-on-possible-gun-ban/

 

Enough said.Another case of republicans wasting taxpayer time and money on an issue they know they cant win

 

So federal agents and prosecutors would be prosecuted for enforcing federal law .Can republican politicians get any dumber ?

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/michele-bachmann-repeal-obamacare_n_2405168.html




Michele Bachmann Introduces First Bill In New Congress To Repeal Obamacare, Again





Some things never change.

On Thursday, the first day of the 113th Congress, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) pounced on the opportunity to announce that she'd filed the first bill of the new legislative session. Something about it looked familiar.



@MicheleBachmann

At noon today, I introduced the first bill of the 113th Congress to repeal Obamacare in its entirety.





It's an effort that has been tried repeatedly by House Republicans -- at least 33 times -- only to fail, or ultimately be shot down by the Senate, which is controlled by Democrats.

 

You offered up your assault rifle yet? Just curious.

 

Why would I

 

She's just exercising the wishes of her constituency, I know it's hard for you to understand that the majority of America wants Obamacare overturned.

 

If thats true they could have voted out Obama and the democratic senate 2 months ago

 

But shes knows that the senate and obama wont overturn it and that shes just wasteing tax payers money

48 million tax payer dollars has been spent by Republicans like her trying to overturn obamacare when they know The Senate and White House wont overturn it


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What does this have to do with Wyoming passing a gun owner protection law?