Comments on: Gun Rights Activists Need to Use All of the Tools of Federalism at Their Disposal https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/gun-rights-activists-need-to-use-all-of-the-tools-of-federalism-at-their-disposal/ Fri, 14 Feb 2025 03:29:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: fppf https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/gun-rights-activists-need-to-use-all-of-the-tools-of-federalism-at-their-disposal/comment-page-1/#comment-22617 Fri, 14 Feb 2025 03:29:05 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=20423#comment-22617 In reply to Button Gwinnett.

no he is saying a jury should vote not guilty even if your actions met all the elements of the statute and thus would normally be found guilty. nullification means the jury agrees you broke the law but they think the law is unjust so they vote not guilty and nullify the prosecution. no one is allowed to talk about this in court and if you mention it you can get a mistrial or thrown off the jury. it’s interesting but not a viable response to dumb gun laws.

]]> By: GWB https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/gun-rights-activists-need-to-use-all-of-the-tools-of-federalism-at-their-disposal/comment-page-1/#comment-22474 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:35:14 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=20423#comment-22474 What I hate about that meme at the top?
Continental Congress did NOT “give” us guns. Not even remotely. They simply applied the principle that already sort of existed under English law (that King George was violating) and said “We should make sure they can keep their guns (to which they already have a right) and the gov’t can’t take them away.”

]]> By: Button Gwinnett https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/gun-rights-activists-need-to-use-all-of-the-tools-of-federalism-at-their-disposal/comment-page-1/#comment-22344 Wed, 12 Feb 2025 01:17:40 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=20423#comment-22344 Great. So, Colorado can ignore Bruen and take my AR because “nullification.”

]]> By: fppf https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/gun-rights-activists-need-to-use-all-of-the-tools-of-federalism-at-their-disposal/comment-page-1/#comment-22195 Tue, 11 Feb 2025 04:40:57 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=20423#comment-22195 jury nullification is great but basically never happens and is more of a nice theory. if you get to the point as a gun owner that you’ve been arrested, prosecuted, and paid for a lawyer to take your case to trial you are already in a world of at least $100k of pain and a not guilty verdict is still pretty cold comfort since gov isnt going to pay your legal defense costs. it’s better to have unconstitutional laws thrown out. a guilty verdict actually helps that more because it can be appealed. only the gov can appeal a not guilty by retrying you. lbk or other lawyers can chime in if i got some of that wrong.

]]> By: .40 cal Booger https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/gun-rights-activists-need-to-use-all-of-the-tools-of-federalism-at-their-disposal/comment-page-1/#comment-22168 Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:46:39 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=20423#comment-22168 In reply to Darkman.

paraphrasing, feeling context and writings of our country foundation era:

Freedom and liberty comes at a cost. It costs you everything if you lose it. The way to keep it is to be willing to fight for it. The trick is, to be willing to make it so costly for the others wanting to take it from you that they dare not try. And if they do try make sure they die for if you don’t they will be back to try again.

]]> By: Darkman https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-nation/gun-rights-activists-need-to-use-all-of-the-tools-of-federalism-at-their-disposal/comment-page-1/#comment-22138 Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:32:50 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=20423#comment-22138 It wasn’t Federalism that secured our Freedoms and Liberty’s from a tyrannical regime. 68 days…How will you honor their sacrifice.

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