Cigar
05-06-2013, 01:58 PM
"Nullification" strikes Kansas. :wave:http://iambenjaminlong.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/usvsthem.jpeg
A few weeks ago, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) signed into law a measure called the "Second Amendment Protection Act," which states that, "Any act, law, treaty, order, rule or regulation of the government of the United States which violates the second amendment to the constitution of the United States is null, void and unenforceable in the state of Kansas."
Kris Kobach, the right-wing anti-immigrant activist who now serves as Kansas' Secretary of State, helped write the legislation. After Holder tried to remind Brownback of modern jurisprudence, Kobach was filled was bravado: "With respect to any litigation, we will happily meet Mr. Holder in court." That's nice, I suppose, and I hope Kobach and his allies will be equally happy to honor court rulings after Kansas loses.
The state-based "Second Amendment Protection Act" tries to play a little legal game, declaring that federal gun laws don't apply to firearms manufactured and owned in Kansas that do not cross state lines. It also takes the next step of telling law enforcement that federal laws can't be enforced in Kansas on firearms manufactured and owned in Kansas.
This is the sort of legal thinking that was common in the South before the Civil War, but which was resolved by the end of the conflict. A state doesn't have the discretionary power to nullify federal gun laws.
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/05/06/18085674-kansas-justice-department-on-nullification-collision-course
Don't let the door hit you in the Ass on the way out!
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A few weeks ago, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) signed into law a measure called the "Second Amendment Protection Act," which states that, "Any act, law, treaty, order, rule or regulation of the government of the United States which violates the second amendment to the constitution of the United States is null, void and unenforceable in the state of Kansas."
Kris Kobach, the right-wing anti-immigrant activist who now serves as Kansas' Secretary of State, helped write the legislation. After Holder tried to remind Brownback of modern jurisprudence, Kobach was filled was bravado: "With respect to any litigation, we will happily meet Mr. Holder in court." That's nice, I suppose, and I hope Kobach and his allies will be equally happy to honor court rulings after Kansas loses.
The state-based "Second Amendment Protection Act" tries to play a little legal game, declaring that federal gun laws don't apply to firearms manufactured and owned in Kansas that do not cross state lines. It also takes the next step of telling law enforcement that federal laws can't be enforced in Kansas on firearms manufactured and owned in Kansas.
This is the sort of legal thinking that was common in the South before the Civil War, but which was resolved by the end of the conflict. A state doesn't have the discretionary power to nullify federal gun laws.
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/05/06/18085674-kansas-justice-department-on-nullification-collision-course
Don't let the door hit you in the Ass on the way out!
http://longdistancemarketing.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/kick-em-out.gif