http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/firearms-freedom-act-constitution-gary-marbut
how will you feel when your kid comes through the door with an AR-15, or a Glock 9mm or a hole in their young bodies time to make up your mind.
Gary Marbut has a dream: a single shot, bolt-action, made-in-Missoula, .22 caliber rifle called the Montana Buckaroo. For the time being, the Buckaroo, adapted from an expired 1899 patent and intended for use by small children, exists only on paper. "Our attorneys have insisted that I NOT complete EVEN ONE Buckaroo," Marbut told me in an email on Monday.That's because Marbut's real target isn't the five to ten-year-old skeet-shooting demographic—it's the United States Supreme Court. His goal is to effectively nullify decades of federal gun law, and he thinks he's found a trick no one else has tried. In 2009, Marbut pushed a law through the Montana legislature asserting the state's partial immunity from federal gun regulations, and then sued the Department of Justice for the right to follow through. Under his scheme, the federal government would be helpless to regulate firearm production or distribution—so long as the guns in question never cross state lines.
can feel the heat fro LaPierre's ears. and theslime trail of saliva being left by republicans.
Lawmakers in 34 states have introduced copycat versions of Marbut's Firearms Freedom Act, six of them in the five weeks since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. All told, 9 state attorneys general have signed onto an amicus brief supporting him; 8 governors have signed it into law. The National Rifle Association supports Marbut's law; so does Cato Institute.
this is where "we the people" get involved gun enthusiast included let the right wing and NRA know nice try but no cigar.
as soon as we except that we have to get involved if for no other reason than it's our children's lives not just someone else you don't know while you're at it put yourself in that jackpot too.
A gun safety instructor who manufactures shooting targets for use by police departments, Marbut moonlights as an unpaid lobbyist in Helena—an incredibly successful unpaid lobbyist. As president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association, he has personally written 58 pieces of legislation that have been signed into law dating back to 1987, ranging from a measure removing wolves from the state's protected species list to a law guaranteeing the "immunity of certain firearms safety instructors" from liability. But the Montana Firearms Freedom Act is by far his most ambitious project.
Marbut's basic argument is that the federal government cannot regulate firearms manufactured and retained in a single state, because there is no "interstate" commerce involved. Therefore, under the 10th Amendment, only Montana—not Washington, DC—has the power to regulate these guns. (His argument doesn't hold for sales across state lines.) That in itself is extraordinarily literal, and—as Marbut readily acknowledges, quite radical; even Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia thinks the federal government can regulate the plants you grow in your backyard.
Article I of the Constitution gives Congress the power to "regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes"—a clause that has been used by the federal government over the last century as a means to regulate everything from medical marijuana to health insurance to, yes, guns. To win his case, Marbut has to convince the courts to ignore all that.
this guy is dangerous and ultimately so is the antiquated 2nd amendment, if these peoplecan covince themselves of impending federal encroachment short hop to civil war it's a plan the right wing has sold to it's gullible.
GW Bush, "you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the one's you want to concentrate on", rebels without a cause if they just want to rebel they will invent a cause.
