"IE creating a de facto government inside the US other than the fed. Is this sedition?"
"No, It's called the 10th Amendment to our Constitution"
Not since the Civil War has it worked this way (the way it's supposed to) and for good reason, since we wouldn't have held together through the "rough patch" of Reconstruction has the southern states retained their full sovereignty. IIRC, it was about that time our nation went from being officially referred to as 'the united States of America" to "The United States of America" and "The Union"--a subtle distinction, but important.
Trung Si, you're from Texas as well, you should know better than folks from most other states how much we are required to submit to federal direction in our affairs. Only recently has the legitimacy of this subjugation even been called into question (SCOTUS ruling on the Voting Rights Act)
"but to do that, someone is going to have to go out there and make full autos in Kansas, being very carefull to make sure not one ounce of metal ever crossed the states borders..."
All it takes is a Bubba making a MG, as Bubba is want to do, and "getting away with it" because the LEO/DA did not press charges or forward the report to the ATF. Much like what happened with marijuana, you get a "creeping legalization" as more and more people get away with more and more violations. The trick is knowing when or if the crackdown comes down from on high.
The truly strange thing is that the NFA is, at its core purpose, a tax code. State laws with regards to machine guns are not tax laws, but criminal laws. There
is no jurisdiction conflict, as is implied by the threats to stop federal agents from performing their enforcement. All this new law amounts to is Kansas saying it will not have its justice system forward NFA cases to the federal authorities; a refusal to comply, also known as "nullification" (also known as Uncle Sam's "psycho switch'
). Since most people report MGs, SBRs, silencers, etc. to the local fuzz, this is likely to be decent protection until Bubba posts his MG build on here or Youtube for PRISM to see.
Whereas the federal government has been willing to look the other way on MJ, they absolutely will not screw around when it comes to private machine gun manufacture. The powers within the ATF are utterly dedicated to preventing their proliferation among the plebians, and the powers that hold the leash of the ATF even more so. There will be zero tolerance of NFA violations.
Still, it would be unwise to mess with a state with this hung in their capital building;
I'd like to think that the horrific events of some 150 years ago would give pause to both state and federal leaders regarding an issue as existential as this one, but that was wishful thinking in the past, as well (in regards to the grievances sparking the Revolutionary War.)
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