Montana legislators have introduced HB0145: ”AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MONTANA’S FEDERAL MANDATES ACT; REVISING THE LEGISLATIVE DECLARATION; SPECIFYING CRITERIA FOR NOTICES OF ADMINISTRATIVE RULEMAKING IMPLEMENTING FEDERAL MANDATES; REQUIRING INTERIM COMMITTEES TO REVIEW AGENCIES’ COMPLIANCE WITH THE FEDERAL MANDATES ACT; PROVIDING FOR INCLUSION IN THE STATE BUDGETING PROCESS OF CERTAIN INFORMATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING FEDERAL MANDATES. While it doesn’t mention guns or gun control like Wyoming’s bill HB0104, MT’s caps lock legislation asserts states rights’ primacy over federal law. Everything from the affordable healthcare act to federal firearms laws are up for review. Theoretically.
Good on them.
Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming join together to become the world’s 3rd nuclear power
Awesome. I would love to live in a freedom loving state like Montana. It is just so damn cold. And there is no ocean. I wish we could have a coastal area that embraces liberty. Maybe if enough of us move to one of the US Virgin Islands. We could set up a true sportsmans paradise.
New Hampshire, it’s got Sea, see. Damn close to them Massholes though.
http://freestateproject.org/
If you can stand the Marxo-Capitalist LoLbertarians.
Sorry… But if the sun doesn’t set on the ocean, it’s just not the same…
But they bang goats in NH.
Alaska has two oceans, but they are both pretty cold.
And of course, it’s hard to drive there without passing through Canadaian and US customs.
Long-term, seasteading might be the best option for a liberty-minded group of people.
You can play an online game, Bioshock, which explores the consequences of the LoLbertarian seasteading concept, and specifically refers to Galt’s Gulch in Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged.
http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/BioShock_Cultural_References
Who said we’d support such things as bio-engineering and human experimentation?
Texas has ocean, wild boars and freedom.
Too hot, though.
That’s why I’m here in Tennessee.
I agree, as a relocated Yankee from Connecticut, Tennessee isnt that bad.
Its been fun this winter listening to my partner complain over how I can wear a short sleeve uniform shirt in such “cold” weather lol. Had a little sleet and rain today and the radio is talking about this huge ice storm we supposedly had lol
Summer is a different animal for me though.
As far as guns, yea this state was a big part in peaking my interest in guns. Unlike Comunistecut where you cant even buy novelty lighters because kids think they are toys
I’d rather have the mountains than the ocean any day.
Hell YES!!
I wish my job would let me move back to the state of my birth…*sigh*
Wage-slave.
“We Don’t Want Full Employment, We Want Full Lives!”
http://www.whywork.org/
Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home. on the bagpipes (you will MOVE, marching to that)
200 Federal ICBMs located at Great Falls, Montana—smack dab in the middle of the State—pretty much negates any old-fashioned “notions of federalism and self-determination.”
“It’s all [Borg] bearings these days.” ~Fletch [metaphor mixed]
I would say that makes Federal action against them unlikely. In the War of Southern Aggression the military instalations in the South almost invariably went to the South, and those that didn’t were easily overwhelmed. Give the fractious state(s) control of a few nuclear weapons, and armed response becomes markedly less likely. MAD is scary as anything, but it works.
I bet you don’t have any idea about a Permissive Action Link (PAL).
P.S. They’re not set to 00000000 anymore.
I don’t know about that, but consider this situation. 2/3ds of the crews of these installations side with the State. Of those who do not, roughly half of them are either captured immediately, perhaps by their co-workers, perhaps after being over-run or starved out. Among those who go over, several of the top officers choose to throw their lot in with the rebels. Most all the files are taken, either intact, or almost intact. The State Governor heads the rebellion, and brings to the table any gubernatorial or state Natl. Guard information. Now add in that, at least in the early stages, many people, even in the Pentagon, may be in sympathy, and you have a citizenry that is used to fixing and jury-rigging. If I was the President, I wouldn’t bet a dollar on the chance that the secessionists couldn’t take control of even ONE of the missiles and re-target it.
Did you help write the second season of Jericho?
I don’t watch TV. I don’t know what show Jericho is.
You dont know what Jericho is? You are seriously missing out. Sign up for a free trial of Netflix and watch it immediately (I think its still on Netflix).
I might be moving to Montana soon …
Just to raise me up a crop of dental floss …
Subsistance level grower, or do you want to be a tycoon?
Texas has sea access. Combine texas with a few other states to Montana and you’ve got a Balkinized country. Shame it may have to come to that.
Ever read Joel Garreau’s Nine Nations of North America?
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana. Bam.
US citizens should not have to move, the constitution applies to all the states. People will not enjoy the ocean sun sets if their in prison for not blindly obeying unconstitutional laws. We should stop sending are tax dollars to washington, so they will have to listen to we the people again. I would rather get into trouble with then let this crap continue.
GOOD!
I am hoping to see a few other solidly pro gun pro freedom states follow suit shortly. Then any legislation would get very interesting. Very interesting indeed.
I heard something about Mississppi having thoughts of joining the group but I cant confirm it. If it is true I am glad the border is walking distance from me
Arkansas is talking about a bill that will override any federal ban on semi-auto weapons and magazines. Not only that, it is supposed to make it illegal for any federal agent to attempt to enforce those bans within the borders of Arkansas.
I hope it passes, although personally I’d prefer it to become part of the State’s Constitution, and thus even harder to get rid of.
Alabama is working on it.
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This bill just passed the Montana House 12-8.
It passed a second and third reading in the House, 59-38. This bodes well for the bills being passed to the Montana Senate.