Any idea what’s happening with Montana’s action?

Chip

So far, as firearms law go, the Federal Government, and the BATFE have lost time, and time again. The BATFE is not the law of the land (or common law), nor can they write the law, they can only enforce the law on the books, and if the Supreme Court rules that what they do is Unconstitutional, they HAVE TO abide by it, and so does Congress, and the White House. As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t doubt if it isn’t Constitutionally legal to bar the BATFE access to a State by the law of the State. There’s a lot of wiggle room in the UCC, and States rights.

The framers of the Constitution were well aware of this, and what the Federal Government could try to do, so they placed several safety barriers in place, including the 2nd Amendment, and I pray to God that we never have to use it as the framers were afraid we would have to do.

When the framers wrote the word Militia, they were not talking about the Federal Militia or Army, or were they talking about a State Militia. They were speaking of the Peoples Militia that may have to be formed against our own government, or against another invading government. John Madison spoke of this, and as a matter of fact, and documented history shows, that they debated about this before they wrote the Constitution.

The 2nd Amendment does not say that we the People have the right to bear arms only when forming a militia, but that we have a right to keep and bear arms, and then form a militia if need be, after the fact, a Peoples Militia. I get so bent out of shape at some who try to reword what the Constitution says. It means plainly what it says, and nothing more, nor nothing less.

Interstate Commerce means exactly that, a contract was made to purchase and move goods between two different states, and that that movement occurred. It does not mean goods inside a sovereign free state that stay in that State. It does not have anything to do with the Butterfly Effect, in that something one State did, caused something to happen economically in another State. That’s nothing but a fools thinking. If the Constitution meant that, it would have said that.

Maybe its time for another Constitutional Convention, and several Amendments made to put the Federal Government back in its place where it belongs. That can be done, and I would say that there are more than enough States right now to give a 75% vote. The State Governments, and their people, are getting tired of being run rough-shod over, and something is eventually going to break. This is the only way any change can be made to the Constitution, and that is by a Convention. If that happens, there is not one thing that the Federal Government can do, but set back and take it. Neither can they do a thing about a new court case making its way to the Supreme Court for review.