TheQ
Regular Member
For those of you who have not read 18 USC 922, it is the "Federal Gun-Free School Zone" law.
Here's the prohibition:
Like most laws passed by Congress, they have used the commerce clause to bogusly justify their power to regulate firearms:
Okay -- so I'll get a gun that was made in that state and has never left that state so that way I can ignore the Federal law and that will be my defense for entering a Federal School Zone, right?
ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR -- WRONG...read on....
WOOOOW! So even if your gun was made in state, the ore it's made of -- or the oil that made the polymer frame (or small plastic widget inside the gun) HAS come from another state/somewhere else, therefore the Federal GOvernment is declaring the power to regulate YOUR gun -- WOW!
There is good news, as many of you know....
.....sooo -- your Michigan Permit To Purchase/Possess or Michigan CPL will cover your ass from the Federal law -- BUT ONLY IN MICHIGAN. If you take your gun and CPL to Ohio and follow Ohio's laws -- the Feds can still bust your nuts on the Federal School Free Zone law UNLESS you also have a Concealed Weapons Permit issued to you by Ohio.....
Now class -- who likes how the US Congress has abused our Federalism?
Here's the prohibition:
(2)(A) It shall be unlawful for any individual knowingly to possess a firearm that has moved in or that otherwise affects interstate or foreign commerce at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone.
Like most laws passed by Congress, they have used the commerce clause to bogusly justify their power to regulate firearms:
(C) firearms and ammunition move easily in interstate commerce and have been found in increasing numbers in and around schools, as documented in numerous hearings in both the Committee on the Judiciary (!3) the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate;
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I) the Congress has the power, under the interstate commerce clause and other provisions of the Constitution, to enact measures to ensure the integrity and safety of the Nation's schools by enactment of this subsection.
Okay -- so I'll get a gun that was made in that state and has never left that state so that way I can ignore the Federal law and that will be my defense for entering a Federal School Zone, right?
ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR -- WRONG...read on....
(D) in fact, even before the sale of a firearm, the gun, its component parts, ammunition, and the raw materials from which they are made have considerably moved in interstate commerce;
WOOOOW! So even if your gun was made in state, the ore it's made of -- or the oil that made the polymer frame (or small plastic widget inside the gun) HAS come from another state/somewhere else, therefore the Federal GOvernment is declaring the power to regulate YOUR gun -- WOW!
There is good news, as many of you know....
(B) Subparagraph (A) does not apply to the possession of a
firearm -
(i) on private property not part of school grounds;
(ii) if the individual possessing the firearm is licensed to do
so by the State in which the school zone is located or a
political subdivision of the State, and the law of the State or
political subdivision requires that, before an individual obtains
such a license, the law enforcement authorities of the State or
political subdivision verify that the individual is qualified
under law to receive the license;
.....sooo -- your Michigan Permit To Purchase/Possess or Michigan CPL will cover your ass from the Federal law -- BUT ONLY IN MICHIGAN. If you take your gun and CPL to Ohio and follow Ohio's laws -- the Feds can still bust your nuts on the Federal School Free Zone law UNLESS you also have a Concealed Weapons Permit issued to you by Ohio.....
Now class -- who likes how the US Congress has abused our Federalism?