I like this bill, but I don’t necessarily agree with their methods:
By superseding federal regulations, House Bill 436 would make it a criminal offense to enforce background checks or to publish the name and address of a gun owner in the state.
It would also technically allow citizens to own a machine gun, which is banned under federal regulations, according to the governor’s office. It also would nullify federal gun laws and would allow citizens to take legal action against officers who try to enforce them.
Very interesting, but what’s most interesting is this:
After a heated debate, the state’s House of Representatives voted 109-49 on Wednesday to override the governor’s veto of House Bill 436, a measure that would essentially nullify federal gun laws in Missouri.
This bill is pretty darn radical, yet Missouri has passed it, and with a wide enough margin to sidestep the Governor’s veto. I doubt it’ll hold up in court as the law is directly opposed to a number of federal laws, and further if Missouri police and ATF agents get into a firefight over this law both sides will technically be right.
I was discussing this with Mrs. Weer’d (who earns the H/T for finding this story for me) in how this is similar to the US Civil War/ War of Northern Aggression. I refer to the conflict like that because both terms are correct. The Confederate States of America had their own land, their own government, and their own currency…just the United States of America refused to recognize any of that, and technically still controlled 100% of what was The Confederate States of America.
I’m really just amazed that this law is THAT popular. Things are really bad for gun control types in America right now.
It’ll be interesting to see this play through the court. Montana already lost a similar, but not identical, battle in the 9th Circuit. I have no idea what the higher court makeup that Missouri falls into looks like, though.