2A Sanctuary States

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Maybe the thread got moved. Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Kansas and Wyoming are 2A sanctuary states, Oklahoma has passed its legislation and sent it to their governor, Texas has it under consideration and Gov Abbott is strongly promoting it, Nebraska governor issued a proclamation (not sure if legislatively enacted).
 
Just be sure - you all know that sanctuary status has no legal force and is just an political expression. Federal laws are not enforced by local law enforcement. Now some jurisdictions might choose not inform or cooperate with Federal firearms efforts. Active resistance by state agencies isn't in the realistic future.

The gesture is worthwhile to express to Washington that actually trying to enforce something like an AWB might have electoral consequences as in the past. Most analyses by antigun folks think that comprehensive AWBs are unlikely to be passed by the current Congress.
 
True.

But it means the state isn't going to lift a finger to help the feds not seek to pursue such charges around the federal laws.

Yep... the feds can pursue it all they want, without state resources.
 
GEM said:
Federal laws are not enforced by local law enforcement.
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BUT, any enforcement depends upon support from the locals. The feds don't have enough LE to actually mount large scale enforcement activities so they team with local LE to bulk up the effort, provide for jail space, transportation, etc. TV and movies aside, they are dependent upon locals for the resources to carry out operations of any size.

Therefore, while all Sanctuary States are simply declaring that they won't provide any support to Federal authorities in Anti 2A, they're also denying them the resources to conduct large scale operations in their state.
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
True.

But it means the state isn't going to lift a finger to help the feds not seek to pursue such charges around the federal laws.

Yep... the feds can pursue it all they want, without state resources.
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Until the threat of withholding Fed monies, Ohio is in early stages and my county has all ready declared.

Nice in sentiment but not counting on it to keep the tanks from rolling through.
 
huntsman said:
Until the threat of withholding Fed monies, Ohio is in early stages and my county has all ready declared.

Nice in sentiment but not counting on it to keep the tanks from rolling through.
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That has its potential problems with the feds, too. Backlash could cost them in elections, especially the more states that become involved in this.
 
Today I saw a video from Lead Therapy that added Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia to our above list, also said that while the previous Arkansas bill passed by their legislature was vetoed by their governor, they watered it down some and the governor now said he will sign the revised one.
 
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old lady new shooter said:
Arkansas bill passed by their legislature was vetoed by their governor, they watered it down some and the governor now said he will sign the revised one.
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The so-called "watering down" was mainly to remove language specifically declaring two long-standing federal laws by name, including the NFA, as unconstitutional, among other changes to turn sheriffs and prosecutors from opposed to neutral. IMHO that part of the original bill was improper overreach by the legislature.

Craig
 
Craig_VA said:
The so-called "watering down" was mainly to remove language specifically declaring two long-standing federal laws by name, including the NFA, as unconstitutional, among other changes to turn sheriffs and prosecutors from opposed to neutral. IMHO that part of the original bill was improper overreach by the legislature.

Craig
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Wow. Thank you very much for that clarification, Lead Therapy just said "watered down".

FWIW (maybe nothing LOL), I agree with your assessment.
 
WOW! sanctuarycounties.com reports that with Texas and Arkansas bills passed, once their respective governors sign, more than 56% of the counties in the US will be 2A sanctuaries, either by virtue of being located in 2A sanctuary states or by having voted for this status themselves. :) :) :)

https://sanctuarycounties.com/2021/...tes-makes-over-56-of-counties-2a-sanctuaries/
Adding TX & AR as 2A Sanctuary States makes over 56% of counties 2A Sanctuaries
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Noah Davis
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May 26, 2021

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We have come a long way folks! Generally, we don’t publish an updated national or state Second Amendment Sanctuary map before the ink is dry, but we have been getting a number of requests for an updated map. Both Texas and Arkansas state legislatures have passed their own Second Amendment Sanctuary legislation and we are waiting patiently for their respective governors to sign them and make them official.

So, for the sake of our followers, we decided to create a new map showing what the status of the Second Amendment Sanctuary movement will be once the governors of Texas and Arkansas make things official. If it turns out that one or both of these governors do not sign their legislation, we will publish a new map that reflects that. Also, because this map is not 100% official yet, we are not going to post it in the National Maps section of this website.

Clarification
We have noticed a number of news outlets that have stated that all of these counties had individually passed their own ordinances or resolutions in support of the Second Amendment. This, sadly, is not true. When we report that more than 56% of counties are now (or very soon will be) Second Amendment Sanctuaries, this includes counties that have not yet passed county-level resolutions or ordinances which are located in states that have passed state-level Second Amendment Sanctuary legislation. The greater than 56% number represents all counties that are protected by either county-level OR state-level 2A Sanctuary legislation.

By The Numbers
Now that we have made this clarification, let’s dig into the numbers a little bit. If you would like to check our work, we actually created a spreadsheet that you can reference. If you find that we have made a mistake in our calculations, feel free to email us at [email protected].

Metrics
The total number of counties that have passed their own county-level resolutions / ordinances / proclamations / etc is 1,135. That represents 36.10% of all counties or county equivalents in the United States. When we include all of the counties that don’t have their own 2A Sanctuary resolutions / ordinances, but are in states that have passed 2A Sanctuary State legislation and include those counties in Texas and Arkansas that were not already covered by county-level 2A Sanctuary resolutions / ordinances, that number increases to 1,788 counties that are protected by a 2A Sanctuary at either the county or state-level. This represents 56.87% of all counties in the United States.

If this is confusing, just remember that if a state declares itself a 2A Sanctuary, we consider every county within that state to also be a 2A Sanctuary. If they already have their own county-level 2A sanctuary, that is great, but we do not count them twice.

Disclaimer
If you check out the spreadsheet that we linked above, you may notice that we have a number of counties listed as “County Level 2A Sanctuary Article Coming Soon”. As we have mentioned in the past, the new 2A Sanctuaries are coming faster than we can archive them. You can either take us at our word that these counties have passed their own resolutions or ordinances, or you can go ahead and research it yourself.

There are news articles verifying every one of these counties. However, rather than just linking to a news article, we contact each county to try to get signed copies of resolutions and we archive them here on the website so that other people can use these resolutions and ordinances to craft their own version for their own county. One of our goals is to get copies of every 2A Sanctuary resolution / ordinance / etc and archive them all on the site. If you would like to see one of the hundreds of these resolutions / ordinances that we already have on the site, just visit our Resolutions page.

High Resolution Map
As always, we make high-resolution 2A Sanctuary maps available for the media to use free of charge. You have our permission to use our maps on your websites, social media posts, and even in your news broadcasts with only a minor request. All that we ask is that you do not remove our logo from the map and that you provide a link back to our homepage: https://sanctuarycounties.com/. If you use this in a news broadcast / podcast / YouTube video / etc, then we ask that you state the name of our website (i.e. “Sanctuary Counties dot com”) when you use the map. We’ve seen a few news outlets that used the map in a broadcast, but didn’t mention where they got it from. Basically, the only thing we really ask for is that you give credit where the credit is due.

In order to reduce page load times here on the website, we never post high-resolution images directly on the article. Instead, we keep them in a shared folder where you can access them without slowing down the page. If you would like a high resolution of the map in this article, please click here.

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If you support the work that we are doing, please consider contributing to our Patreon. Google just cut off our ads again, so we really need your help! Keeping a site like this up and running is very expensive, so if you’d like to help us out, please visit: https://www.patreon.com/sanctuarycounties you can also click on the image below. Thanks!
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Lets not confuse 2A sanctuary county resolutions with state.

A state that makes this declaration is far more significant than when a county makes it. County or city resolutions are important, but less significant vs. when a state makes this decision. A state has actual broad legislative influence and can effectively hamstring the feds. A city or county is too vulnerable.
 
The Missouri Second Amendment Protection Act has been sent to the governor. He has 45 days (from May 25th) to sign it, veto it, or do nothing. If he chooses to do nothing, then it automatically becomes law at the end of the 45 day period.

Here is the final bill as sent to the Governor.

https://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills211/hlrbillspdf/0767S.10T.pdf
 
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These seem to be mostly symbolic and not really offering any real advantage. Correct me if I'm wrong, but has any state actually gone toe-to-toe with the feds yet and protected someone who violated an unconstitutional law (Congress has no delegated police powers within the states per the Constitution)?
 
GODA_Nella said:
These seem to be mostly symbolic and not really offering any real advantage. Correct me if I'm wrong, but has any state actually gone toe-to-toe with the feds yet and protected someone who violated an unconstitutional law (Congress has no delegated police powers within the states per the Constitution)?
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They can't "protect" someone the feds choose to devote their own time and resources pursuing and prosecuting for violations of federal law. They can, however, say "we're not going to commit any of our resources to help you to enforce your own laws".
 
I thought I heard rumors that some county sheriffs have threatened to arrest federal agents who try to enforce federal gun laws. Has anyone else heard of this? Or am I imagining.
 
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