The states are picking and choosing which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore. My own state (CA) ignores its OWN laws (capital punishment, gay marriage) as well as its own state constitution... Texas Bill Proposes To Block Police From Enforcing Any New Federal Gun Laws Via Fox News: AUSTIN, Texas – Under a measure advancing in the Texas Capitol, local police officers could be convicted of a crime for enforcing any new federal gun control laws. Rep. Steve Toth, a newly elected Republican from the Woodlands, said his proposal would prevent officers from carrying out any future federal orders to confiscate assault rifles and ammunition magazines. “There’s a federal law, there’s a 30-round magazine right in front of you – what do I do?” Toth said in an interview. The measure known as the Firearm Protection Act “answers that question in spades,” he said. It moved Tuesday to the House Committee on Federalism. President Barack Obama has proposed federal laws banning such weapons, but no such laws currently exist. Toth’s proposal would create a Class A misdemeanor for police officers enforcing any new federal gun regulations. It also would establish cause for the state attorney general to sue anyone who seeks to enforce new federal gun regulations. It is one of several states-rights measures being offered by conservative state lawmakers nationwide in response to federal gun control proposals
Utah is doing something similar. In their bill they also would make it illegal for federal enforcement to carry weapons into the star to enforce federal gun laws.
:idea: :!: Over 200 years ago, this phenomenon was known as "nullification." Individual states reserved the right to "nullify" or make void those federal laws that interfered with law or liberty within their own states. The original creators of nullification were two Virginians: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. They were responding to President John Adams' Alien and Sedition Act which attempted to make it illegal for them to disagree with the policies of.......John Adams.
Beretta To Bolt Maryland If Dem Governor’s Anti-Gun Bill Passes… Next stop, Texas. Via WaPo: On the production floor of Beretta USA sits a hulking new barrel-making machine ready to churn out the next object of obsession in America’s love-hate relationship with guns: a civilian version of a machine gun designed for special operations forces and popularized in the video game Call of Duty. Beretta, the nearly 500-year-old family-owned company that made one of James Bond’s firearms, has already invested more than $1 million in the machine and has planned to expand its plant further in Prince George’s County to ramp up production. But under an assault-weapons ban that advanced late last week in the Maryland General Assembly, experts say the gun would be illegal in the state where it is produced. Now Beretta is weighing whether the rifle line, and perhaps the company itself, should stay in a place increasingly hostile toward its products. Its iconic 9mm pistol — carried by every U.S. soldier and scores of police departments — would also be banned with its high capacity, 13-bullet magazine. “Why expand in a place where the people who built the gun couldn’t buy it?” said Jeffrey Reh, general counsel for Beretta. Concern that the company will leave, and take its 300 jobs with it, is palpable among state lawmakers who worry it could be collateral damage from Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposed gun-control bill. Among other restrictions, O’Malley’s bill would ban assault rifles, magazines with more than 10 bullets and any new guns with two or more “military-like” features. Gun experts said it’s a near-certainty that Beretta’s semiautomatic version of the ARX-160, now only a prototype, would be banned under O’Malley’s bill.