Texas bill would block police from enforcing new federal gun laws

Texas bill would block police from enforcing new federal gun laws

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.

Courts have long upheld the federal government's right to enact new laws, which generally supersede state law. Asked how legal precedent for the supremacy of federal law would affect enforcement of his bill, Toth said he expects a legal challenge.
"It may end up in the Supreme Court," he said.

Now if states would start doing this with the drug war...

Obama admitted this disconnect between federal and local laws had put him in a tough spot.

"I head up the executive branch. We're supposed to be carrying out laws," he said. "And so what we're going to need to have is a conversation about how do you reconcile a federal law that still says marijuana is a federal offense and state laws that say that it's legal?"

The Justice Department is still looking into how to handle the conflict. But in the meantime, Obama suggested, the feds aren't gearing up for what might be a costly, unpopular crackdown on tokers in Colorado and Washington.

The federal government cannot infringe on the right to bear arms as per the Second Amendment, thus the supremacy clause is invalid for such a situation.

Wonder what our forefathers would have thought of this constitutional roulette?

they would probably be like "jeez people, use some common sense! don't be beholden to a 225 year old piece of paper and a bunch of dead guys, do what works in the here and now! do you really think we fought for freedom and made this country so you can act like a bunch of drones mindlessly following dated ideas? dated ideas are the shackles we cast off for you!"

they would probably be like "jeez people, use some common sense! don't be beholden to a 225 year old piece of paper and a bunch of dead guys, do what works in the here and now! do you really think we fought for freedom and made this country so you can act like a bunch of drones mindlessly following dated ideas? dated ideas are the shackles we cast off for you!"

Interesting Constitutional conundrum. Federal laws supersede state laws as per the Constitution. But the Constitution says nothing about states being obligated to enforce federal laws.

Wonder what our forefathers would have thought of this constitutional roulette?