Comments on: Utah Senate Passes Firearms Freedom Act

By: wiley wall

wiley wall — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:13:38 +0000

If a person wants to commit suicide, he will find a means to do it…….by knife, car, rope, carbon monoxide. You can't blame guns.

By: Grandma

Grandma — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:49:42 +0000

We just had a young friend, age 25 commit suicide using a firearm. Utah is fast becoming one of the suicide-by-firearm capitols of the U.S. We are also a rapidly developing into corridor for the illegal guns/drug traffickers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/health/17risk.h…

Our new State Motto should read, "in guns we trust".

By: Michael Boldin

Michael Boldin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:21:34 +0000

A state law does not need teeth – it is law, and when enacted, it is the duty of the state to enforce it.

People are often confusing these laws with the many 10th amendment resolutions that have been introduced around the country the last 2 years – those are non-binding, and the state is not required to enforce them.

Binding laws, such as this bill – require the state to enforce them. While it will still be difficult to make that happen (it will require major public pressure) additional teeth, as you call it, is not needed. Teeth are in a bill by its very existence.

By: THOMAS DYCHES

THOMAS DYCHES — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:17:54 +0000

GOOD POINT “TOOTHLESS.” I ADMIRE & AGREE WITH THE SENTIMENT OF THE UTAH LAW ACT BUT IT DOES SEEM TO LACK THE TEETH OF APPLICATION IF AN ISSUE ARISES.

By: Toothless sound bite

Toothless sound bite — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:46:03 +0000

It would be less of a unenforceable symbolic futile forlorn hope if the Utah House added *penalties* like this:

State Agents:

Any public servant of the State of New Hampshire as defined in RSA 640:2 that enforces or attempts to enforce a act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the government of the United States upon a personal firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in New Hampshire and that remains within the State of New Hampshire shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

Federal Agents:

Any official, agent, or employee of the government of the United States, or employee of a corporation providing services to the government of the United States that enforces or attempts to enforce a act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the government of the United States upon a personal firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in New Hampshire and that remains within the State of New Hampshire shall be guilty of a class B felony.

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Utah Passes Firearms Freedom Act « A Geek With Guns — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:41:59 +0000

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