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To: unclewest who wrote (341092)	1/3/2010 8:03:06 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793896

Gun Rights: The Tenth Amendment Version Saturday, January 02, 2010 posted by Grim 14:04 The BATFE is sending letters to gun dealers in Montana and Tennessee stating that it will ignore state laws on intra-state manufactured firearms. The legislatures of these states passed these laws to remind Congress that the Constitution only allows the Federal government to regulate "interstate" commerce, and because the Tenth Amendment reserves non-delegated powers to the states, or to the people. There's been quite a bit written about this, and I think everyone was expecting the Federal government to simply assert its dominance in this way. I doubt the change of administrations has made any difference here; it's more a question of real power, which all recent administrations (and all Federal bureaucracies) have liked to gather to themselves. It was always a question of how the states would respond, or whether private citizens like gun dealers would force the issue themselves. So take this post, then, not as a warning of some new tyranny; but just an announcement that the next step in the dance has occurred. grimbeorn.blogspot.com