Missouri Set To Nullify All Federal Gun Laws?

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

The way the United States operates is probably not quite what our Founding Fathers envisioned. For example, we know they weren’t fond of political parties…then promptly created political parties. They were big on freedom, then promptly restricted it.

It’s been pretty much downhill since then in a lot of ways.

One thing we know they wanted, though, was a fairly weak federal government and strong state governments. They wanted states to set their own laws, by and large. That also means they likely would have favored states nullifying certain extraconstitutional laws.

So, they’d be pretty happy with a Missouri proposal.

The Show Me State has made headlines in recent years for its aggressive support of Second Amendment rights, but the legislature is now considering the ultimate protection: nullification. The Missouri legislature has reintroduced a bill that would nullify all federal gun control laws within the state and bars state agencies from employing any federal law enforcement official who tries to enforce said laws.

The Missouri House and Senate passed a similar piece of legislation in 2014, but then-Democratic Gov. Jeremiah Wilson “Jay” Nixon vetoed it. Now that a Republican holds the governor’s mansion …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms