States Are Beginning to Take a Stand on Gun Laws and Excercise Their State Rights

Looks like I was right to abandon the People’s Republic of New York for the Great State of Arizona:

A Republican-sponsored bill barring enforcement of new federal guns laws sparked passionate debate in an Arizona Senate committee that ultimately passed the bill Wednesday.

The party-line vote moved the first of several anti-gun control bills introduced in the Legislature to the floor on the same day the U.S. Congress heard a plea from former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to pass new gun control laws.

The bill co-sponsored by [the aptly named] state Sen. Don Shooter, four other senators and several members of the House of Representatives would bar enforcement of new federal laws affecting semi-automatic firearms or high-capacity magazines. It also makes any federal official trying to enforce such laws guilty of a felony and allows the state Attorney General to defend anyone prosecuted for violating federal gun laws if the gun was made in Arizona, among other provisions.

The bill was based on similar Wyoming legislation. All it needs is a signature from Governor Jan Brewer, who has stood up to Obama before.

The party line vote means that even in the state that produced Barry Goldwater, Democrats can be relied on to side with federal tyranny against both states rights and the Bill of Rights.

On a tip from IslandLifer.