Crucial Components in the Creation of Successful 2nd Amendment ‘Sanctuary’ States

Cody Wisniewski
Cody J. Wisniewski, director of MSLF’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms

Cody Wisniewski, director of MSLF’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms, writes at Legal Insurrection about the creation of gun sanctuary cities and states:

Recently, Joel Osterhoudt of Reason published an interesting piece recognizing the rise in Second Amendment “sanctuary” states and cities across the nation. As Osterhoudt rightly recognizes, this movement largely relies on the model established by the immigration and marijuana sanctuaries that arose in progressive cities and states in response to the Trump Administration.

But in recognizing this important revelation in protecting individual rights, the article confuses two very distinct concepts—Anti-Commandeering and Nullification…

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