February 16, 2005

What 10th Amendment?

Gunner over at No Quarters points to this article out of Montana:

HELENA -- Lawmakers in the Montana House of Representatives collectively thumbed their noses at the federal government Monday by approving two bills exempting guns from federal regulations and driver's licenses from national standardization requirements.

The bills by Reps. Diane Rice, R-Harrison, and Roger Koopman, R-Bozeman, do different things but are driven by the same concern: the erosion of personal liberties by the federal government.
Koopman said Monday his gun bill, House Bill 366, would inspire a home-grown industry of gun-makers who produce firearms to be sold in Montana. It also sends a message reaffirming states' rights.

Heck yeah! What does the 10th Amendment say again?

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, norprohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,or to the people.

Seems that a state is finally saying "enough is enough" and standing up to Federal encroachment upon state's rights. It's not much, but it is a beginning.

Be sure to go read Gunner's much more thorough analysis.

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