Federal bills would restrict shooting on public land

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Federal bills would restrict shooting on public land

Flake aims to block limits

Posted Jan 25, 2012, 10:36 pm

Salvador Rodriguez
Cronkite News Service

WASHINGTON — Federal officials are eyeing shooting restrictions on more than a million acres of public land, half of which are in Arizona, said Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Mesa, who wants to block the restrictions.

Flake’s measure was one of two Arizona shooting bills – along with Rep. Trent Frank’s proposal to transfer 315 acres of federal land in Mohave County to the state for use as a shooting range – taken up Tuesday by a House Natural Resources subcommittee.

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Steve

[imanaknut]

Let me see, Arizona declares that the feds aren't doing their job, so Arizona takes the lead to stop the flow of illegal human beings into their state. The feds get angry and threaten the state. The governor of Arizona stands up and tells the feds to take a hike, so the feds react by trying to take over state land.

Makes sense to me.

Since according to the supreme law of the land, the feds have no rights inside state boarders, and are only given powers to maintain peace among the states... oh wait, that law is the constitution, which our current federal government does not believe in.

Never mind.

Actually, it is nice to see people and leaders of a state taking a stand against a tyrannical federal government.

Funny, that is why the constitution and the amendments were written the way they are, to protect the people, and the states, from the tyranny of a central federal government.

[old Grump]

My solution, transfer the Federal lands not being actively used like military bases to the states they are located in.




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Should Congress Transfer Federal
Lands to the States?


by Randal O'Toole

During the last Congress several bills were offered that would transfer some of those lands to the states. Although those proposals are unlikely to attract serious legislative attention in the 105th Congress (the 1996 election having severely tempered Republican enthusiasm for federal land reform), they are indicative of how many conservatives would reform federal land management if given the political chance. The bills introduced during the last Congress included

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-276.html