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A National Rifle Association board member said he will not back an Arizona bill designed to limit federal gun control.

According to Salon.com, Todd Rathner said House Bill 2291 could put a lot of pressure on Arizona gun dealers.

"I worry about putting federal firearms licensees in the middle of a fight between us and the federal government," he said. "It puts them between a rock and a hard place because they worry about committing a federal crime or a state crime."

According to Talking Points Memo, House Bill 2291 would make it a felony for an federal employee to enforce federal laws on firearms and ammunition that are produced in Arizona and stay in Arizona.

The bill would also make any new federal laws restricting semi-automatic firearms and magazines, or requiring any form of firearm registration, unenforceable in Arizona.

The bill may not pass, but Arizona Republicans said it is intended to send a message to both the president and Congress. Rathner said he supports the message the bill sends.

Other states, such as Mississippi, Texas and Tennessee are considering similar bills.

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    Michoacan wrote...
    Gun nuts need their guns to protect
    January 22, 2013 11:38 am
    themselves from other gun nuts. Meanwhile, depressed and emotionally disturbed family members are using those exact same guns to kill the gun nut, his other family members and themselves. Gun nuts and the NRA fear federally funded gun violence research because it will continue to prove out the truth of the preceding statements. Arizona legislators waste time and tax money trying to pass unconstitutional and doomed legislation designed only to help them raise campaign dollars.
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    HWAGRIDER wrote...
    Stupity abounds
    January 22, 2013 11:46 am
    with commeters here. Do some researching on the web almost every state is working on restricting the feds on guns. You anti gunners have not got it through your thick heads. CRIMINALS DO NOT OBEY LAWS! If you were defend yourself against a cartel member which would you rather have a 7 shot gun or 30 shot gun? When you are faced with more than one attacker do you think 7 shots is enough?
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    HWAGRIDER wrote...
    During the LA Riots
    January 22, 2013 11:49 am
    none of the Asian stores were looted or burned. Why? Because they were on their roof tops with semi-automatic rifles protecting themselves. Funny rioters did not go near those stores. Store that were not protected were destroyed from the riots which by the way had nothing to do with the trial.
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    Michoacan wrote...
    This ultimately useless legislative fun fest,
    January 22, 2013 12:24 pm
    designed principally to ensure generous campaign donations from gun nut suckers, will have no effect on coming gun control efforts. Every state advancing local nullification of federal law suckles at one or another of the federal government's teats and is susceptible to federal funds cutoff. Still it's fun to party while you can. As to how many rounds to have in that gun in your house that your depressed or emotionally disaffected family member will use on the rest of the family, strangers and ultimately on themselves, well, that's a matter of personal choice.
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    AZBrat wrote...
    @Michoacan
    January 22, 2013 1:00 pm
    Its not that we are gun nuts we like our freedom and lives and no one, other than God has the right to take either away from us! We have the right to protect ourselves. Please look at some of the foreign citizens warning on my other post here and listen to them talk about how they, including some police regret the disarming of the citizens, it did not make them safer it created more crime! Criminals do not follow the laws! Please don't judge just listen to what they are going thur, I can only pray you do!!!
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    Michoacan wrote...
    AZBrat, you have apparently bought into
    January 22, 2013 1:11 pm
    the fiction that any attempt at gun regulation is the same as the total disarming of the citizenry. That you would believe such bull is reason to question your commitment to the truth. I've never called, and would never call for everyone to be disarmed, including myself and scores of my friends, family and acquaintances. The disarming belief is driven by gun nut paranoia. Gun regulation at some level is a legitimate and Constitutional function of government. If you don't believe that, then you must think that it is okay for people to toss loaded guns to inmates at the Tents.
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    Liljo wrote...
    I don't carry a gun to kill anyone
    January 22, 2013 1:17 pm
    and I hope I never have to use it. I carry a gun to stop someone from hurting/killing me or my loved ones. think about three or more thug gang-bangers vs little old lady with a .45, it just evens up the playing field a little bit.
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    AZBrat wrote...
    @Michoacan
    January 22, 2013 2:02 pm
    The laws we have now cover the problems if followed! Don't you agree increasing the penalty / sentence for using a gun illegally would punish the criminals rather than punish the law abiding citizens by limiting their means of protection? Every time they create laws "to protect us" the law abiding citizen looses more freedom & it does little to protect us! Look at TSA we get inconvenienced & groped for years and they have yet to catch one terrorist! Patriot Act..........need I say more?
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    Michoacan wrote...
    Arizona has laws that allow criminally oriented
    January 22, 2013 2:12 pm
    gangbangers to carry concealed weapons without a permit pretty much wherever they please, without fear of penalty. This gangbanger protection act makes us all safer how? Arizona says it's okay to concealed carry your gun into bars to escalate your typical bar fight from bloody noses to flying bullets. This armed drunken brawler act makes us safer how?
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    yrreta wrote...
    How does Arizona have laws that
    January 22, 2013 3:41 pm
    allow the gangbangers to carry concealed weapons without a permit, legally? If that's the case, then why even bother to get a CCW permit? I know that since I was a teenager, it has always been legal in AZ to carry unconcealed. Although the law may allow you to carry concealed and/or unconcealed into a bar, it's the bar's right and responsibility to post signs to the contrary if they decide to not allow it.

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