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Lee-Lee

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5. At first glance it appears to be the same as voting to make your city a sanctuary city

Reply to SickOfTheOnePct (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 4, 2015, 07:38 AM

Nov 2015

It's the exact same use of discretion in enforcement, just applied to guns instead of immigration.

However, on the Federal level it's mostly symbolic. The local LE can't enforce federal law, at best all they can do is assist and cooperate with Federal authorities as they do. And I bet in a rural county that they see less than a dozen violations even enforced a year by the Feds, if they actually do anything there.

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