Fed’s Declare Tennessee’s new gun law INVALID (House Bill 1796)
Time to stand up Tennessee! Lets see how strong the 10th amendment resolution is.
Last month, the Tennessee General Assembly passed House Bill 1796, the “Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act,” which states that any firearms or ammunition manufactured within the state and legally owned and kept within the state by TN civilians are “not subject to federal law or federal regulation, including registration” due to provisions in the Second, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/HB1796.pdf
On July 16, Assistant Director Carson W. Carroll of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives sent the Bureau’s official response to HB 1796 to all FFL dealers in Tennessee. In short, BATFE asserts that “Federal law supersedes the Act, and all provisions of the Gun Control Act and the National Firearms Act, and their corresponding regulations, continue to apply.”
Governor Phil Bredesen will not stand in the way of House Bill 1796. He will allow it to pass without his signature.
Bredesen, in a letter to Speaker Kent Williams, states that the bill which says that federal laws do not apply to firearms, accessories, or ammunition that is manufactured in Tennessee, will likely be found to be unconstitutional.
“This bill is not about firearms. It is about a fringe constitutional theory that I believe will be quickly dispensed with by the federal courts.
The Tennessee General Assembly lacks the Constitutional authority to limit the power and authority of federal government in this way…
…While I share the General Assembly’s commitment to federalism, this legislation contravenes our Constitution. I am allowing it to become law so that it can quickly be dealt with by the federal courts.”
Quote:
“The Tennessee General Assembly lacks the Constitutional authority to limit the power and authority of federal government in this way…”
2nd Amendment
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.
10th Amendment
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.
Has Bredesen even read the Constitution?
I would doubt it. Most all our reps and people we vote for have not.
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