JUNEAU, Ala – Today, Alaska Governor Sean Parnell signed HB69, the 2nd Amendment Preservation Act, into law.
The bill sets the stage to nullify a large swath of unconstitutional federal power over the right to keep and bear arms. It begins with the premise that violations of the 2nd Amendment are not law at all. It reads, in part:
a statute, regulation, rule, or order that has the purpose, intent, or effect of confiscating any firearm, banning any firearm, limiting the size of a magazine for any firearm, imposing any limit on the ammunition that may be purchased for any firearm, or requiring the registration of any firearm or its ammunition infringes on an Alaskan’s right to bear arms in violation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and, therefore, is not made in accordance with the Constitution of the United States, is not authorized by the Constitution of the United States, is not the supreme law of the land, and, consequently, is invalid in this state and shall be considered null and void and of no effect in this state
It continues:
A state or municipal agency may not use or authorize the use of an asset to implement or aid in the implementation of a requirement of
(1) an order of the President of the United States, a federal regulation, or a law enacted by the United States Congress that is applied to
(A) infringe on a person’s right, under the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, to keep and bear arms;
This is a VERY effective method to stop the federal government from infringing the right to keep and bear arms within Alaska. It’s a known fact that a vast majority of federal enforcement actions rely on state and local assets in order to have the manpower and resources to carry them out. As Judge Andrew Napolitano has said recently, such widespread noncompliance would make federal gun laws “nearly impossible to enforce” (video here)
The bill also instructs the State Attorney General to defend any citizen who may be charged by the federal government, or its representatives, under such “laws” as may be passed by Washington DC.
Senator Coghill, who worked on the amendment instructing the AG to defend citizens, had this to say in the closing arguments when it passed in the legislature: “we believe in a strong central government, but we don’t believe in an omnipotent central government… Remember, it was the states that made the federal government. The states are now being forgotten by the very central government they put together, by them ignoring the very Constitution that tied us together as states. The tension has arisen and we have to answer that tension. This (bill) does that.”
HB69 is also an expansion on the state’s previously passed Firearms Freedom Act. That bill made state law that federal power under the constitution’s commerce clause did not apply to firearms, parts and accessories manufactured and held within the state, as this was not interstate commerce. The new legislation takes the natural progression and included firearms and accessories that are not just manufactured in the state – but any possessed in the state as well. Read quite clearly, that’s all firearms, parts and accessories in the state except those few which are intended for sale across state lines.
As what some might consider a bonus added to the legislation in the Senate Amendment, the bill also prohibits compliance with NDAA “indefinite detention” AND the Real ID Act of 2005.
The prohibition on use of state assets (above) also includes the following:
1. Any federal act that would “deny a person a right to due process, or a protection of due process, that would otherwise be available to the person under the Constitution of the State of Alaska, or the Constitution of the United States
2. P.L. 109-13, Division B (REAL ID Act of 2005).
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