{"id":66396,"date":"2021-04-01T09:02:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=66396"},"modified":"2021-04-01T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:02:01","slug":"66396","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=66396","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenair.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/govt-and-politics\/montana-lawmakers-advance-bill-to-nullify-federal-gun-bans\/article_86ee601b-9db4-5175-94e1-29a272ad0d62.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Montana lawmakers advance bill to nullify federal gun bans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HELENA \u2014 A measure that would prohibit state and local law enforcement officials in Montana from enforcing federal bans on firearms, ammunition and magazines is nearing passage in the state Legislature just a week after President Joe Biden urged Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican-controlled Senate voted Wednesday 30-20 in favor of the measure. They are set to vote on the bill for a third and final time this week before the bill heads to the desk of Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte, who has not commented on whether he would sign the bill into law.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would ban state employees from enforcing or implementing federal bans on firearms, magazines or ammunition&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arktimes.com\/arkansas-blog\/2021\/03\/31\/arkansas-senators-declare-federal-gun-laws-null-and-void-within-state-borders\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Arkansas senators declare federal gun laws null and void within state borders<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkleg.state.ar.us\/Bills\/FTPDocument?path=%2FBills%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB298.pdf\">Senate Bill 298<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>Sen. Gary Stubblefield<\/strong> (R-Branch), the \u201cArkansas Sovereignty Act of 2021,\u201d aims to stop every federal gun law at the Arkansas border. Anyone who has ever taken a United States civics class will recognize the unconstitutionality of the bill. Still, Arkansas senators passed the measure by a vote of 28-7, and it now heads to the House side to be voted on there. Should it pass, it would then go to the governor\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span dir=\"ltr\">All acts, laws, orders, rules, and regulations of the United\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">States Government, whether past, present, or future, that infringe on the\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">peop<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">le\u2019s right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">2<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">the United States Constitution and Arkansas Constitution, Article 2, \u00a7 5, are\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">invalid in this state, shall not be recognized by this state, are\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">specifically rejected by this state, a<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">nd shall be considered null and void\u00a0<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">and of no effect in this state&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montana lawmakers advance bill to nullify federal gun bans HELENA \u2014 A measure that would prohibit state and local law enforcement officials in Montana from enforcing federal bans on firearms, ammunition and magazines is nearing passage in the state Legislature just a week after President Joe Biden urged Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=66396\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66400,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66396\/revisions\/66400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}