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Sheiffs Refuse Obama Gun Grab Laws: DUers get Wee-Wee'd Up
« on: January 17, 2013, 01:41:59 AM »
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Some sheriffs vow not to enforce Obama's gun plan..who the **** do they think they are?

 Denny Peyman didn't watch President Barack Obama's gun-control announcement Wednesday. But the Jackson County, Ky., sheriff said he already knows how the proposals will affect the way he does his job: not one whit.
 
Peyman is one of several sheriffs across the country who are vowing not to enforce new firearms restrictions that could be imposed by Congress or by executive order.
 
"Kentucky is a sovereign state," Peyman told NBC News. "The federal government is coming in and saying, 'This is what you're going to do.' We're not going to do it."
 
The White House's wish list includes an assault-weapons ban. Peyman said if it comes to pass, he won't be part of any crackdown.
 
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/16/16547387-some-sheriffs-vow-not-to-enforce-obamas-gun-plan-anti-violence-groups-praise-measures?lite

Maybe he shouldn't be trying to take what is rightfully ours to own in the first place. Yay for Kentuck.....y.  :-)

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3. Printz v. U.S.

They don't have to enforce a federal law as local officers, but they may not interfere with federal agents enforcing federal laws in their communities.

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4. no more federal dollars to support them

and the "wrongful death" lawsuits when it is proved that they didn't enforce the law and could have.... will both personally bankrupt them and professionally ruin them.

That's right. Cut them off if they don't go along with your line of thinking. That'll solve everything. (take note, womynz.  :fuelfire: :bolt: )

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7. Linn County, Oregon..

Add Sheriff Tim Mueller to the list. This clown is an embarrassment to our blue state.
 
http://www.registerguard.com/web/news/cityregion/29310102-57/laws-mueller-gun-sheriff-county.html.csp
 



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8. another one

http://kstp.com/article/stories/S2899041.shtml?cat=12196

Minn. Sheriff Vows to Ignore New Gun Restrictions

A Minnesota sheriff says he would refuse to enforce any new state or federal regulation that restricts guns.
 
Pine County Sheriff Robin Cole sent an open letter to residents this week, saying he doesn't believe the federal government has a right to order states to follow mandates that violate the U.S. Constitution.
 
Cole wrote that he would view any such mandate illegal and refuse to carry it out. He says he believes it is a "moral sin" to erode freedom through administrative rules.
 
Cole told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he is categorically opposed to any proposal that would infringe on one's constitutional rights. He says he wrote the letter because citizens have been afraid of what the future holds.
 
He says the issue doesn't apply to just guns.

I hate to say it, DUmmies, but if your savior Barack H. Obama keeps this gun grab shit up to an extent where there are feds, and other members of his cabinet systematically going around actually trying to TAKE guns from citizens, people are gonna get shot. People in suits that make way too much money for what they do to this country, and people who wear expensive suits. Mark my words. Keep traveling this road, and it will happen.

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Re: Sheiffs Refuse Obama Gun Grab Laws: DUers get Wee-Wee'd Up
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2013, 01:56:14 AM »
Liberal shitholes have been ignoring federal laws for years and the DUmmies cheered them on.  Of course that was when states or cities passed laws in direct violation of federal drug laws, or cities refusing to prosecute illegal immigrants and offering them "sanctuary".

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Re: Sheiffs Refuse Obama Gun Grab Laws: DUers get Wee-Wee'd Up
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2013, 02:12:33 AM »
Liberal shitholes have been ignoring federal laws for years and the DUmmies cheered them on.  Of course that was when states or cities passed laws in direct violation of federal drug laws, or cities refusing to prosecute illegal immigrants and offering them "sanctuary".

Bingo.

It's obvious who was the first side to "selectively" enforce laws.

If the primitives can do it, while I don't like it, I suppose decent and civilized people can do it too.

They've been setting all sorts of precedents for us.
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Re: Sheiffs Refuse Obama Gun Grab Laws: DUers get Wee-Wee'd Up
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2013, 02:18:20 AM »
The Dummies..and their exalted leader are about to get a great lesson in States Rights.
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Re: Sheiffs Refuse Obama Gun Grab Laws: DUers get Wee-Wee'd Up
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2013, 03:33:43 AM »
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4. no more federal dollars to support them

There was a recent SCOTUS decision that said the Feds could not withhold funding as a means of extorting state and local governments.

It was part of the ObamaCare ruling.


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Re: Sheiffs Refuse Obama Gun Grab Laws: DUers get Wee-Wee'd Up
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2013, 03:40:06 AM »
What DUmmies don't realize is a lot of local sheriffs are elected to their offices.

The more popular ones (like mine) usually run unopposed.

The sheriffs are NOT going to do anything as stupid as enforcing Barry's Laws.
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Re: Sheiffs Refuse Obama Gun Grab Laws: DUers get Wee-Wee'd Up
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2013, 04:32:12 AM »
My county sheriff is damn near 80 years old.  I don't know how much longer he'll be the sheriff (he did say that he'd be the sheriff until he dies).  I do know that the Donks routinely put someone up against him, and said Donk loses pretty badly.  I also don't know what he thinks about the new gun laws.
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Re: Sheiffs Refuse Obama Gun Grab Laws: DUers get Wee-Wee'd Up
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2013, 05:06:37 AM »
I seem to recall the opposite reaction to states that decided to thumb their noses at federal drug laws.  :lmao:
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« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2013, 06:34:44 AM »
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« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2013, 08:13:17 AM »
Missouri's HB 170 calls for the following:
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1. It shall be unlawful for any officer or employee of this state, or any political subdivision, or any federal firearms dealer licensed under 19 U.S.C. Section 923 to enforce or attempt to enforce any act, law, statute, rule, or regulation of the federal government relating to a personal firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition that is owned or manufactured commercially or privately in the state of Missouri and that remains exclusively within the boundaries of the state of Missouri.

2. Any official, agent, or employee of the federal government who enforces or attempts to enforce any act, order, law, statute, rule, or regulation of the federal government upon a personal firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that is owned or manufactured commercially or privately in the state of Missouri and that remains exclusively within the borders of the state of Missouri shall be guilty of a class D felony.

In Mssouri, a class D felony can be punished with up to four years behind bars, and is one of four or five other states with similar legislation.
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Re: Sheiffs Refuse Obama Gun Grab Laws: DUers get Wee-Wee'd Up
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2013, 08:38:38 AM »
^^  Well, that's a can of worms, isn't it?

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« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2013, 08:55:58 AM »
Can pretty well add Texas to that list, too.  :yahoo:
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« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2013, 09:13:00 AM »
^^  Well, that's a can of worms, isn't it?

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« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2013, 09:22:57 AM »

County sheriffs have close to nothing to do with enforcing Federal laws anyway, it's really just a symbolic act.  And even aside from that, if Obama and Holder can decide they aren't going to enforce Federal immigration and other laws, then it opens the door for the law enforcement officials of any other other sovereign to do the same to their own laws or his (Which of course has always been the case when the case goes to the prosecutor, who has the unbounded discretion to decide whether to charge and take it to trial or not).
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« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2013, 10:07:40 AM »
I can't find the video, but this morning I saw on the News that at least two local Police chiefs will not enforce any gun bans. Both stated that they will uphold the Constitution, not some EO.


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Re: Sheiffs Refuse Obama Gun Grab Laws: DUers get Wee-Wee'd Up
« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2013, 02:03:29 PM »
I'm having a hard time deciding whether 44 was dumb enough to think the states wouldn't react like this...or he knew they would and he's doing this in order to impose martial law sometime in the near future.
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« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2013, 02:29:39 PM »
I'm having a hard time deciding whether 44 was dumb enough to think the states wouldn't react like this...or he knew they would and he's doing this in order to impose martial law sometime in the near future.

I'll go with B.
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« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2013, 02:32:26 PM »
I'll go with B.

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7. Linn County, Oregon..

Add Sheriff Tim Mueller to the list. This clown is an embarrassment to our blue state.
 
http://www.registerguard....n-sheriff-county.html.csp

Wow! To paraphrase the First Wookie, "For the first time in my adult life I'm proud of my state!"

Interesting, however, they don't seem to have the same seething rage & unhinged racism when the federal laws being ignored involve marijuana and illegal immigrants.

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« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2013, 03:35:21 PM »
Wow! To paraphrase the First Wookie, "For the first time in my adult life I'm proud of my state!"

Interesting, however, they don't seem to have the same seething rage & unhinged racism when the federal laws being ignored involve marijuana and illegal immigrants.

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Re: Sheiffs Refuse Obama Gun Grab Laws: DUers get Wee-Wee'd Up
« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2013, 03:47:45 PM »
Thank God for Oath Keepers keeping the oath breakers in ck!
BSS I see the Albany PD has welcomed the guns across America protest on Sat. Said the welcomed CCP holders and wont be busting ass! Will you be there? I will.
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« Reply #22 on: January 17, 2013, 07:15:17 PM »
Thank God for Oath Keepers keeping the oath breakers in ck!
BSS I see the Albany PD has welcomed the guns across America protest on Sat. Said the welcomed CCP holders and wont be busting ass! Will you be there? I will.

I may have to be, now.  My permit says "Hunting and Target Only."  BTW, where'd you find that info out?
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« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2013, 04:02:24 AM »
I may have to be, now.  My permit says "Hunting and Target Only."  BTW, where'd you find that info out?
https://www.facebook.com/GunsAcrossAmericaNewYork
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« Reply #24 on: January 18, 2013, 04:06:51 AM »
Good choice.  Never assume an enemy's incompetence.  Remain wary, and make him prove it to you.
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