Macomb County officials have declared that they will not obey gun laws that they believe stray from the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and that the sheriff and prosecutor must follow their lead.
Joining a national movement to create Second Amendment sanctuary counties, Macomb becomes the first county in Metro Detroit to reject enforcement of future gun restrictions.
With this move, which hardly got noticed, the county Board of Commissioners demonstrates a perplexing desire to play sheriff, prosecutor and Supreme Court justices.
Commissioner Veronica Klinefelt
By a 7-6 party line vote last week, the new Republican majority – the first in the board’s history – agreed to make Macomb a sanctuary county, meaning they could choose not to enforce gun regulations such as universal background checks, bans on military-style weapons, high-capacity magazine restrictions and red flag laws.
That committee vote still faces final approval at the full board meeting on June 24. But the outcome may amount to little more than a formality as the same 13 members will make that decision.
“(This is) saying, ‘We as a board, our position is, we don’t care what the courts have said or the legislature or the federal government, we’re deeming them all unconstitutional,’” said Commissioner Veronica Klinefelt, an Eastpointe Democrat who voted against the sanctuary status.
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This is an excerpt of a column I wrote for Deadline Detroit.
“With this move, which hardly got noticed, the county Board of Commissioners demonstrates a perplexing desire to play sheriff, prosecutor and Supreme Court justices.”
how is it confusing or weird in any sense that our own local governments want to protect the second amendment from government overreach and incremental bans that make no sense?
i like how in the full article you strawman the concerns of 2A advocates, completely ignoring the abuses that redflag laws as well as any confiscation laws cause.
requiring insurance or a additional tax stamp per gun and per “magazine” is incentive to not buy a gun and it keeps legal arm purchases out of reach for Americans who cannot afford it
we created precedent where we can create sanctuary cities, yet you claim that its something different. its literally the same. we are not the first county that has pushed for such measures, many measures such as this have been passed and they have used the same avenues that cities you support used to declare sanctuary status for illegal aliens
you also forget that all of these bans you advocate for in the full article, have been shot down in a federal court and declared unconstitutional, these laws were in place in California for over 32 years. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/us/california-assault-weapons-ban.html and was called a failed experiment that never stopped mass shootings. you push for a restriction that doesn’t cause the result you want, and yet you still cry like a baby when common sense people push back against tyranny. there’s no sense in punishing lawful gun owners, criminals do not follow the law anyway and we have seen that the California law has NEVER stopped a mass shooting, nor did it even hamper the last 5 California had.
you show ONCE AGAIN, you have ZERO clue what you are talking about, but with the state of journalism these days, anyone can be a mouth piece of ideologues online and get called a journalist. you are not a centrist, you are a hardline democrat. just because you sit between socialists and what you deem to be the far right, doesnt make you a centrist if you are a mouth piece for the left
Fun read for you as regards this exercise in political pandering –
https://www.acslaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The-Rise-of-Second-Amendment-Sanctuaries.pdf
its a necessity when tyrants continue their incrementalism