Thin Black Line
Member
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO
Sixtieth Legislature First Regular Session 2009
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 3
BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
A JOINT MEMORIAL
TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION
REPRESENTING THE STATE OF IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
We, your Memorialists, the House of Representatives and the Senate of the State of Idaho
assembled in the First Regular Session of the Sixtieth Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully
represent that:
WHEREAS, the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution does not simply
provide for a collective right or a right for the states to establish militias; rather it provides for
the right of the people to keep and bear arms; and
WHEREAS, the primary purpose of the right to keep and bear arms is to protect one’s
self, family and possessions from either the private lawlessness of other persons or the tyranny
of government; and
WHEREAS, the right to keep and bear arms is also meant to protect the general private
uses of firearms in activities such as hunting and other sporting activities; and
WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller, 128
S.Ct. 2783 (200, recently struck down a firearms ban in the District of Columbia, explicitly
ruling that the Second Amendment protects the right of the people to possess firearms for
private use; and
WHEREAS, despite this ruling, legislation has been introduced in the United States
House of Representatives calling for a system of mandatory federal licensing of all firearm
owners; and
WHEREAS, the legislation introduced would require all firearm owners to apply for and
carry a federally issued picture identification in order to keep any firearm in their homes; and
WHEREAS, the legislation introduced would make it a federal crime to keep a loaded
firearm or an unloaded firearm and ammunition within any premises including, under certain
circumstances, American homes where a child may be present; and
WHEREAS, the legislation introduced specifically purports to preempt any state or local
law inconsistent with it; and
WHEREAS, the introduced legislation, Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale
Act of 2009, is a direct imposition on each American’s individual right to keep and bear arms
in their homes and for their protection.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Session of
the Sixtieth Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and the Senate concurring therein,
that members of the United States Congress cease and desist attempting to enact federal
legislation impinging on the individual right of every American to keep and bear arms in any manner.
Specifically, that members of Congress oppose the passage of the Firearm Licensing and Record of
Sale Act of 2009, and any similar legislation.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate be, and she is hereby
authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Memorial to the President of the Senate and
the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Congress, and the congressional delegation
representing the State of Idaho in the Congress of the United States.
"cease and desist" is the nice way of telling them to shove it....
are lucky to have that kind of a state government. Here in IL we really lack that.
