Kentucky Introduces Bill To Nullify Obama’s Gun Control
Yesterday, the Kentucky Senate overwhelmingly approved
an unconstitutional bill forbidding the enforcement of new federal gun
safety laws:
Any federal law, rule, regulation, or order created on or
after January 1, 2013, including any amendment or other change made
after January 1, 2013, to a preexisting federal law, rule, regulation,
or order, shall be unenforceable within the borders of Kentucky if the law, rule, regulation, order, amendment, or other change attempts to:
(a) Ban or restrict ownership of a semi-automatic firearm, magazine, or other firearm accessory; or
(b) Require any firearm, magazine, or other firearm accessory to be registered in any manner.
Nullification, the Nineteenth Century idea that states can simply
declare federal laws invalid,cannot be squared with the Constitution’s
declaration that federal law “shall be the supreme law of the land; and
the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the
constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.” Yet
the sponsor of this unconstitutional bill, state Sen. Jared Carpenter
(R-KY), claims that he can make an end-run around the Constitution
because the command that duly-enacted federal law are supreme over state
law “applies only if Congress is acting in pursuit of its
constitutionally authorized powers, which he said wouldn’t apply to
stricter gun measures.”
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