Take note.  When is the last time you ever saw a plea for city or county sovereignty from the state redound to less stringent gun laws?  That’s right.  You never have.  That’s why it’s important to embed preemption into the law.  If I’m not mistaken, the city of Jackson is still in a battle with the state over it’s regulation against concealed carry inside the city limits, mainly because the city’s council members are communists and would rather force their rule on the citizens of Jackson than actually solve problems.

Next, I didn’t know that guns are currently prohibited in church in Wyoming.  That’s deplorable, and it sets up church parishioners as sitting ducks should a ne’er-do-well take it upon himself to kill the members during a worship service.  I agree with Bruce Burns.  The right to self defense admits of no regulation.  It is a basic, inalienable and God-given right.

As for whether the governor will sign this into law, that’s an open question and it isn’t clear that he is a gun rights supporter.

While Wyoming Governor Matt Mead favors gun rights, he said that he is very concerned about a couple of gun rights bills making their way through the legislature.

One bill would allow school employees, parents of a student or their guardian, who hold a concealed weapon permit, to have guns in schools.  Mead said that there are better ways to ensure school safety and he wants the state to look closer at those solutions.

“Including school resource officers, whether they should be armed, how many we have and what would be the cost to put them in every school?  As I look at the billions we spend building schools, we ought to be thinking now, the next school we build, what can we do to harden it in terms of security?  Those are some practical things that we can do now that I think can make a difference.”

Mead said that he also doesn’t care for a bill that would give Wyoming residents permission to ignore federal gun laws and give local law enforcement the ability to arrest federal agents enforcing those laws.

“How do you ask a federal judge or a juror to not enforce the laws?  And it’s interesting because I said earlier, one of the hallmarks of gun owners in Wyoming is that we respect the law.”

Well, you have to give the Wyoming senate credit for clarity.  They understand that if they enact a nullification law, they’d better be ready to arrest federal marshals and other federal agents (e.g., ATF) who attempt to enforce those laws.

As for the question how you ask a jury to ignore a federal law, you don’t play that game.  You don’t ever let the accused be arrested to begin with, and forbid a federal judge from taking the case up in the first place.  If he does, he presides over an empty court, and if he sends agents of the court to arrest the “suspects,” those agents are arrested by local LEOs as soon as they leave the court room.  As for those local LEOs who won’t do that, they lose their jobs immediately.  This is actually much simpler than it’s made out to be.

Here is my prediction.  Governor Mead prostitutes his signature as a veto of the bill.  We’ll see if I’m right.  It’s easy to say that you support gun rights.  Most statements of support include a “but.”  I support gun rights … “but.”  There’s always a but.  And a butt.