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Originally Posted by Tubbs
Richard Mack is a former AZ sheriff who challenged the AWB all the way up to the Supreme Court and won. He and another sheriff from Ravalli county MT both believed that it was unconstitutional and should not be enforceable in their counties. They won under the grounds that the ban violated the 10th amendment.
The case respectively are Mack v. United States and Printz v. United States.
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Personal feelings aside, you are misreading the cases.
All that was decided was that the US government could not force the local LE agencies to run the background check.
The remainder of the AWB was not heard.
TR
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