Missouri House of Reps Passes Powerful Nullification of Federal Gun Grab
Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
New American
April 22nd, 2013
The Missouri House of Representatives passed a nullification bill April 28 prohibiting the enforcement of federal gun grabs within the sovereign borders of the Show Me State.
By a vote of 115-41, state lawmakers approved the Second Amendment Preservation Act (HB 436), with nine Democrats crossing the aisle and voting “aye.”
A nearly identical companion bill is currently working its way through the state Senate. It’s sponsored by reliable friend of the Constitution, state Senator Brian Nieves.
HB 436, which is sponsored by State Representative Doug Funderburk, was approved by the entire House fewer than 24 hours after passing the first round of approval by the same body. “I think this bill removes the noose the federal government has been gradually putting around the necks of its citizens and pulling it tighter, and tighter, and tighter,” Funderburk said immediately before his bill was voted on by his colleagues.
While their elected representatives debated the matter inside the House chamber, 300 Missourians gathered inside the rotunda of the state capitol building to demonstrate support for the measure.
During the deliberations, a handful of pro-Second Amendment representatives ducked out of the chamber to speak to the crowd. “I was part of the Republican majority that gave Missourians the right to carry-conceal by overriding Governor [Bob] Holden’s veto,” Senate President Pro-tem Tom Dempsey (R-St. Charles) informed the throng. “I’m part of the Republican majority that’s gonna protect that right from federal overreach and an apathetic [Governor Jay] Nixon administration.”
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