EASTVALLEYTRIBUNE.com, Ariz. — A House panel voted Thursday to let Arizonans make their own guns and bullets – and offer them for sale – without having to comply with federal regulations.
Rep. Nancy McLain, R-Bullhead City, said HB2307 is designed to have Arizona exercise its right of sovereignty that is guaranteed under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It says “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
That amendment is routinely cited by those who contend the federal government is usurping states’ rights.
McLain said Congress is relying more and more on another constitutional provision which allows the federal government to regulate interstate commerce. More to the point, she said that language is being used to regulate the manufacture of both guns and ammunition.
“Some of us think they have perhaps gone a bit too far on that, and it’s time that we start taking steps to reassert our sovereignty as a state,” she said.
The legislation approved on a 5-2 margin by the House Judiciary Committee is patterned after an identical measure approved by the Montana Legislature last year.
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