{"id":7756,"date":"2009-05-11T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=7756"},"modified":"2009-05-11T09:56:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T16:56:24","slug":"montana-defies-federal-government-on-gun-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/05\/11\/montana-defies-federal-government-on-gun-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana Defies Federal Government on Gun Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest051109\/2009_05_11_helmke.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest051109\/2009_05_11_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/blogs.venturacountystar.com\/vcs\/greenberg\/archives\/GunMap420.gif\" alt=\"gun laws\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Montana has exerted its state sovereignty by passing a new gun law that allows it to dodge the Federal government\u2019s Interstate Commerce Law regulating gun control. The state contends that guns manufactured and sold in Montana, and thereby crossing no state lines, are exempt from federal requirements that require conducting background checks, and licensing dealers. The guns would be stamped, \u201cMade in Montana.\u201d  The bill passed by the state legislature, was signed into law by Democratic Governor Brian Schweitzer. Utah and Texas are eying the law and could pass similar ones, setting off what could spark a major legal confrontation with the federal government. The result could be a possible overturning of a 1942 Supreme Court decision of Wickard v Filburn, a landmark case that has been invoked to impose federal law over state commerce. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradycampaign.org\">www.bradycampaign.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program Montana has exerted its state sovereignty by passing a new gun law that allows it to dodge the Federal government\u2019s Interstate Commerce Law regulating gun control. The state contends that guns manufactured and sold in Montana, and thereby crossing no state lines, are exempt from federal requirements that require conducting background [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}