Sovereignty etc

[unixronin]

According to MRStep¹, a total of 22 states have already declared, are currently in the process of declaring, or are planning to declare sovereignty.

Montana is going one further and considering a bill that would declare firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition that are manufactured within Montana and never leave the state to be exempt from applicable Federal laws and regulation.  For the purposes of the bill,

"Firearms accessories" means items that are used in conjunction with or mounted upon a firearm but are not essential to the basic function of a firearm, including but not limited to telescopic or laser sights, magazines, flash or sound suppressors, folding or aftermarket stocks and grips, speedloaders, ammunition carriers, and lights for target illumination.

The bill excludes crew-served weapons, automatic weapons, and explosive ammunition, but aside from those, Montana's telling BATF to go fish.

[1]  Disclaimer:  I cannot vouch for the soundness of MRStep as a source.  Quote a few of the commenters are pretty clearly in the tinfoil-beanie brigades.

Comments

[skellington.livejournal.com]

I note that the Georgia one they link to is from the 1995/1996 legislative session.

It is a non-binding resolution, that was read into the record, as far as I can tell.

See: http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/1995_96/leg/fulltext/sr308.htm

And just because a bill is proposed by one single representative in one house, does not imply that it has or will pass or be signed by the governor of any state. You can find bills that say ANYTHING in some state legislature or another.

(Recently there was one requiring restaurants in Georgia to serve sweet ice tea, if they served unsweetened... That actually had a couple dozen sponsors..)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they seem to have gathered up stuff from all over.

[guppiecat]

Not effective, by the way.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That should have been submitted to the JIR. :)

[lebo-superman.livejournal.com]

One of our state senators here in Kansas is preparing to submit a bill along this line (the basic sovereignty version), and according to the news article I read it looks like the Senate leadership are inclined to back it. I'll be interested in how this turns out, here and elsewhere.

[cipherpunk.livejournal.com]

When Montana was admitted to the Union, their admission paperwork was contingent upon the Federal government explicitly recognizing a right to keep and bear arms. "The people on Montana will join so long as..." sort of thing.

During the time when Heller was up in the air, some Montana politicians were seriously talking about seceding from the Union — for nonadherence to contract — if Heller came down on the government's side.