A Gun Activist Takes Aim at U.S. Regulatory Power

[jpak]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584404576442440490097046.html

MISSOULA, Mont.—With a homemade .22-caliber rifle he calls the Montana Buckaroo, Gary Marbut dreams of taking down the federal regulatory state.

Montana passed a law that tries to exempt the state from federal gun regulation. But the law is now before the courts, in a test of states' rights. WSJ's Jess Bravin reports.

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For years, Mr. Marbut argued that a wide range of federal laws, not just gun regulations, should be invalid because they were based on an erroneous interpretation of Congress's constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. In his corner were a handful of conservative lawyers and academics. Now, with the rise of the tea-party movement, the self-employed shooting-range supplier finds himself leading a movement.

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Ten state attorneys general, dozens of elected officials and an array of conservative groups are backing the legal challenge he engineered to get his constitutional theory before the Supreme Court. A federal appeals court in San Francisco is now considering his case.

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more GOP/NRA/Free Stater/Militia Boy/Confederate RW horseshit

yup

[gejohnston]

1. My amendment to Godwin's law

Using the word Confederate when referring to any other than the CSA or neo-Confederates nostalgic for the antebellum and/or Jim Crow South, you lose. The was about slavery, the CSA constitution was tract praising slavery. The CSA was a police state that required passports to go across state lines, and had stricter gun laws even then.

If it was medical marijuana or drugs in general (to be consistent, it would have to be included) would this be Green/High Times/Free Stater/Anarchist/LW horseshit?

[ileus]

2. Too bad it's an appeals court in Ca and not Tx

[DWC]

3. "This is really about states' rights and federal power rather than gun control,"

Unrec. Wrong forum.

If I lived in Montana I would buy a Montana Buckaroo for every one of my grandchildren and few to spare.

Semper Fi

[SteveM]

4. Jpak should stop using the "n" word. nt