Showing posts with label States' Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label States' Rights. Show all posts

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Tennessee Firearms Freedom "Superseded " by the Federal's Restrictions

On June 3rd, 2009, Tennessee passed the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act, nullifying any Federal control over in-state firearms transactions. Now, the Feds, specifically the BATFE, are saying that they have ultimate authority.

(BATFE: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Previously known by the following names: "Revenue Laboratory", "Alcohol Tax Unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue", "Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division", and "Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the Internal Revenue Service".

The BATFE sent letters to gun dealers in Tennessee, proclaiming their continued rule over the Second Amendment.

"Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Sounds like a convenience store."

I suppose it unecessary to remind my readers of the Constitution's "no tolerance" stance on gun-grabbing by any branch or level of government.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." ~Second Amendment, U.S. Constitution

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." ~Tenth Amendment, U.S. Constitution

"This Constitution... shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding." ~Supremacy Clause, U.S. Constitution Article 6, paragraph 2

No governmental body within the bounds of these United States may regulate or restrict the common man's right to keep and bear arms. Neither federal, state, nor local government is given such power.

Even supposing the Second Amendment did not guarantee the freedom of arms to an individual, though, there is no legitimate argument of this being the case, the U.S. Constitution does not grant to the Federal government the power to regulate arms, as the powers delegated them are all inclusive. In such an outlandish case, the states could regulate them individually.
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