Nationalist and States' Rights Position on Gun Control

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STATES’ RIGHTS
States’ rights are strategies and doctrines that protect the rights of the individual states from federal government interference. Under the guidance of the Constitution, states have significant sovereignty to enforce, pass as well as interpret the laws and pursue individual public policy programs.
Gun control is a major topic that has received massive attention regarding whether the state or the federal should control firearms. People particularly the gun right supporters do not want gun controls to be made into federal law. People say that gun controls should never be regulated by the federal government, because they already have too much power.
The article on gun rights illuminates on how people feel about federal government’s authority over guns in the state. The states’ rights advocates say that the federal government is getting into an area that they are not supposed to engage and their scope of power with this issue is limited. There’s a lot of opposition, and some people say that even if the federal government insists on enforcing the firearms laws, they will not offer assistance. The Federal government say that they should be in charge because the issue has so much to do with the 2nd amendment. To date, the two have not reached a consensus but voting is an action to be taken so as to determine who regulates the issue.
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Edelson, Daniel. 2014. United States Law: An introduction for international students. USA: Daniel Edelson.
Epstein, Richard. 2013. "Ricochet." Gun regukation, the states and the second Amendment: Making sense of our twisted constitutional history. February 1. https://ricochet.com/archives/gun-regulation-the-states-and-the-second-amendment-making-sense-of-our-twisted-constitutional-history/.
Justine, Robby, and Jessica. 2014. "LowaWatch." Gun Rights Supporters rely on individual states to overcome federal controls. August 27. http://iowawatch.org/2014/08/27/gun-rights-supporters-go-to-individual-states-to-overcome-federal-controls/.
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Link to the Gun control article:  HYPERLINK "http://iowawatch.org/2014/08/27/gun-rights-supporters-go-to-individual-states-to-overcome-federal-controls/" http://iowawatch.org/2014/08/27/gun-rights-supporters-go-to-individual-states-to-overcome-federal-controls/
Across the country, a thriving dissatisfaction with the U.S. government is prompting a growing spate of bills in state legislatures aimed at defying federal control over firearms - more than 200 during the last decade, a News21 investigation found.
Particularly in Western and Southern states, where individual liberty intersects with increasing skepticism among gun owners, firearms are a political vehicle in efforts to ensure states’ rights and void U.S. gun laws within their borders. State legislators are attempting to declare that only they have the right to interpret the Second Amendment, a movement that recalls the anti-federal spirit of the Civil War and civil-rights eras.
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