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West Virginia sheriffs say they wouldn’t enforce assault-weapons ban

If that ban were to become federal law, at least five West Virginia sheriffs said they wouldn’t enforce it and vowed to protect people’s right to bear arms under their interpretation of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Putnam County Sheriff Steve Deweese was among those who said he doesn’t support an assault weapons ban.

“If an executive order comes across to arrest someone in possession of an AK-47, my answer is probably no, because that’s violating their Second Amendment rights,” he said.

Boone County Sheriff Randall White said he took an oath to defend the Constitution and recently sent a letter to Obama addressing his concerns.

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Heh. I did training at Storm Mountain in W. Va. This sounds about right.

Socratease on January 31, 2013 at 7:26 PM

Encouraging.

hawkdriver on January 31, 2013 at 7:39 PM

Right on Bubbas.

If anything this type of decision should be left to the states even in the liberal statist bizzarro world. The left just cannot help themselves in imposing their well on the WHOLE nation.

CW on January 31, 2013 at 7:45 PM

The only areas where this ban would most likely be upheld are strong urban S*(tholes anyways so the criminals will still have the guns.

Of course, they will blame it on the areas around them not having the ban so its their fault that its not working. Like in ChiTown right now…

watertown on January 31, 2013 at 7:46 PM

Introducing President Ignored.

hillsoftx on January 31, 2013 at 7:46 PM

I can only encourage Mayor Bloomberg and his NY posse to go to WV and round up those guns. He needs to have a cultural experience outside of NY.

:)

William Eaton on January 31, 2013 at 7:49 PM

When the central government which represents that majority has issued a decree, it must entrust the execution of its will to agents over whom it frequently has no control and whom it cannot perpetually direct. The townships, municipal bodies, and counties form so many concealed breakwaters, which check or part the tide of popular determination. If an oppressive law were passed, liberty would still be protected by the mode of executing that law; the majority cannot descend to the details and what may be called the puerilities of administrative tyranny. It does not even imagine that it can do so, for it has not a full consciousness of its authority. It knows only the extent of its natural powers, but is unacquainted with the art of increasing them.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“Causes Which Mitigate the Tyranny of the Majority in the United States.”

(The next paragraph is a warning).

INC on January 31, 2013 at 8:02 PM

No surprise really. All the law enforcement folks I know feel the same way.

Bmore on January 31, 2013 at 8:07 PM

DemocRAT governor and senators, cry me a river , West Virginny.

Knott Buyinit on January 31, 2013 at 8:18 PM

Almost heaven …

davidk on January 31, 2013 at 8:26 PM

Yet they continue to elect Dems in statewide elections. Go figure.

Odysseus on January 31, 2013 at 10:04 PM

Yet they continue to elect Dems in statewide elections. Go figure.

Odysseus on January 31, 2013 at 10:04 PM

I would put the sheriffs apart from the majority of the voting populace. They have to deal on a daily basis with the grimmest realities imaginable of Democrat loons running the show.

MelonCollie on January 31, 2013 at 11:34 PM