<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of KHQ at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.khq.com/story/21644783/house-clears-bill-protecting-idaho-made-firearms">http://www.khq.com/story/21644783/house-clears-bill-protecting-idaho-made-firearms</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><h1 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">House clears bill protecting Idaho-made firearms</span></font></h1><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>BOISE, Idaho</b>—House lawmakers have gotten behind a bill protecting firearms manufactured in the state from any future attempts by the federal government to confiscate weapons.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The measure easily passed Thursday on a 61-7 vote calls for exempting guns with a "Made in Idaho" stamp from any future federal restrictions on firearms already considered legal in the state.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nampa Republican Rep. Christy Perry said the legislation sends a symbolic message to the federal government and protects Idahoans' Second Amendment rights.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The bill is 1 of 2 proposals making their way through the legislature intended to embolden state safeguards against federal intrusion.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A second bill would make it a misdemeanor for sheriff deputies and police officer to aid federal agents trying to seize firearms in the state.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Extract of House Bill 280</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2013/H0280.pdf">http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2013/H0280.pdf</a></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: CourierNewPSMT-Identity-H; ">"(4) If the manufacture, transfer, possession or ownership of any </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: CourierNewPSMT-Identity-H; ">firearm or firearm accessory is prohibited by a federal law or executive </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: CourierNewPSMT-Identity-H; ">order that becomes effective on or after March 1, 2013, then such firearm </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: CourierNewPSMT-Identity-H; ">or firearm accessory is deemed unavailable as a result of such federal law </span><span style="font-family: CourierNewPSMT-Identity-H; font-size: 11pt; ">or executive order. Any firearm or firearm accessory that is subject to</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial-ItalicMT-Identity-H; "> </span><span style="font-family: CourierNewPSMT-Identity-H; font-size: 11pt; ">any such federal law or executive order, but which is manufactured in Idaho </span><span style="font-family: CourierNewPSMT-Identity-H; font-size: 11pt; ">and remains within the borders of Idaho, is not subject to the authority of </span><span style="font-family: CourierNewPSMT-Identity-H; font-size: 11pt; ">congress to regulate under its commerce power because of the federal pro</span><span style="font-family: CourierNewPSMT-Identity-H; font-size: 11pt; ">hibition against such firearm or firearm accessory in interstate commerce.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-family: CourierNewPSMT-Identity-H; font-size: 11pt; ">Therefore, any firearm or firearm accessory federally prohibited by law or</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial-ItalicMT-Identity-H; "> </span><span style="font-family: CourierNewPSMT-Identity-H; font-size: 11pt; ">order that becomes effective on or after March 1, 2013, under the authority</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial-ItalicMT-Identity-H; "> </span><span style="font-family: CourierNewPSMT-Identity-H; font-size: 11pt; ">of congress to regulate interstate commerce may be manufactured, trans</span><span style="font-family: CourierNewPSMT-Identity-H; font-size: 11pt; ">ferred, possessed or owned within the borders of Idaho."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div class="page" title="Page 2">
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z-index: 15; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.300781); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.234375); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.234375); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">FIREARMS - EXPLOSIVES - OTHER DEADLY WEAPONS - Amends and adds to existing law relating to firearms, explosives and other deadly weapons to revise and establish additional provisions relating to the prohibition of federal regulation of certain firearms.</span></font></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; ">PASSED - 61-7-2</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">AYES</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "> -- Agidius, Anderson(01), Anderson(31), Anderst, Andrus, Barbieri, Barrett, Bateman, Batt, Bell, Bolz, Boyle, Chew, Clow, Collins, Crane, Dayley, Denney, Eskridge, Gannon, Gestrin, Gibbs, Hancey, Harris, Hartgen, Henderson, Hixon, Holtzclaw, Horman, Kauffman, Loertscher, Luker, Malek, McMillan, Meline, Mendive, Miller, Monks, Morse, Moyle, Nielsen, Packer, Palmer, Patterson, Perry, Raybould, Romrell, Shepherd, Sims, Smith, Stevenson, Trujillo, VanOrden, Vander Woude, Ward-Engelking, Wills, Wood(27), Wood(35), Woodings, Youngblood, Mr. Speaker</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">NAYS -- Burgoyne, Erpelding, King, Kloc, Pence, Ringo, Rusche</div></span><span style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Absent and excused -- DeMordaunt, Thompson</div></span></span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya Saturday, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>