State GOPers Craft Wild Gambits To Wriggle Out Of Fed Gun Control Measures
Some GOPers Look To Use State-Sanctioned Militias To Circumvent New Federal Gun Laws
By Matt Shuham
April 5, 2021 5:35 p.m.
Faced with a Democratic Congress and White House, Missouri state Sen. Bill White (R) thought long and hard about legislative maneuvers he could pursue to shield his state’s residents from potential new gun laws out of Washington.
Eventually, he settled on a novel approach: Create a new force that residents could volunteer to join — a state-sanctioned “minuteman” group to be deployed in emergencies — then make those volunteers’ guns state property. That’s right: Want to protect your guns from the government? Give them to your governor.
“What is the one thing the feds don’t really get to regulate?” White told TPM. “Well, that’s our own state property.”
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