a bill proposed in the Ohio state House of Representatives would prohibit state and local police from enforcing federal gun regulations.
House Bill 51 would not only remove all reference to “federal firearms laws,” but, within certain enumerated exceptions, declares:
federal acts, laws, executive orders, administrative orders, rules, and regulations shall be considered infringements on the people’s right to keep and bear arms, as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and Section 4 of Article I, Ohio Constitution, within the borders of this state.
Along with that clear and concise codification of the right of the people to keep and bear arms and the state and federal constitutional protections thereof, the proposal sets forth a bit of constitutional history in support of its proposed propping up of the Second Amendment:
Acting through the Constitution of the United States, the people of the several states created the federal government to be their agent in the exercise of a few defined powers, while reserving for the state governments the power to legislate on matters concerning the lives, liberties, and properties of citizens in the ordinary course of affairs.
The limitation of the federal government’s power is affirmed under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which defines the total scope of federal powers as being those which have been delegated by the people of the several states to the federal government, and all powers not delegated to the federal government in the Constitution of the United States are reserved to the states respectively or the people themselves.
If the federal government assumes powers that the people did not grant it in the Constitution of the United States, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
That is some very correct and commendable legislating!
