Gold Drop Signals Deflation

Rickards: Falling Gold Signals Fed's 'Worst Nightmare'

Gold bugs should not be worried about the metal's falling price, but Federal Reserve officials should be very concerned, says Jim Rickards, author of "Currency Wars" and senior managing director of Tangent Capital.

While gold prices have dropped over 20 percent since the beginning of the year and gold is down 30 percent from its peak in August 2011, "the fundamental bull case for gold has not changed at all," Rickards told Yahoo.

Rickards proclaimed that the decline in gold prices is more of problem for the Fed than it is for gold bugs.

If you hold the dollar constant, you see the price of gold is dropping, he explained, and when you reverse that, so gold is the constant factor, you see the dollar is getting a lot stronger.

"In other words, a lower dollar price for gold if gold is the constant means the dollar is getting really strong. That's deflationary. That's the Fed's worst nightmare," he told Yahoo.

Last year, the Fed made a historic move when it set an inflation target of 2 percent, but inflation is currently running below that level.

The Fed has shaken up markets with talk of possibly tapering its stimulus programs, but Reuters said some experts wonder if sub-target inflation will actually force the Fed to take a more aggressive approach.

Rickards believes it will, saying that the strong signs of deflation is one reason the Fed will likely have to back away from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's ruminations and either maintain or increase the level of asset purchases.

"If the Fed officials are reading market signals, if they even remember what those are, they should be very concerned about" declining gold prices, Rickards said.

He warned that gold prices are confirmation that the Fed's nightmare is materializing.

"The Fed would like real growth, but if they can't get it they will take nominal growth because debt is nominal," he noted.

"We have nominal debts and we need nominal growth and we're not getting it, or at least we're not getting enough of it," he added.

Not everyone agrees that investors shouldn't be worried about the drop in gold prices.

"You need to re-examine your expectations for the gold market if you're long — you need to stop thinking in terms of crisis and start thinking about where gold was pre-crisis," Tom Kendall, director and head of precious metals research at Credit Suisse, told CNBC.

He points back to the days before unlimited easing, and before rabid fears drove people to believe they needed to seek safety in metals. Back then, gold was trading at $1,100 or $1,150, he noted.

Source: Newsmax.com, Money News Friday, 28 Jun 2013 by Michelle Smith http://www.moneynews.com/Markets/Rickards-gold-Fed-dollar/2013/06/28/id/512438#ixzz2XXItnoz0

Comments:

The economy decided that gold had reached levels way above its useful commodity price, so, like stocks, investors sold gold to grab the gain they made.  The high price of gold gave “gold users” the incentive to find substitutes that were cheaper; both actions reduced the demand.

Gold, like land has limits to its price.  Gold is useful in electronics and popular for jewelry. Land prices should be tied to its return on investment.  A farmer knows how much he can make with each acre of land he owns and can’t spend more for the land than it can produce.  This correction in gold has resulted in deflation.  The Federal Reserve System is based on Inflation.

Throughout the 1800s, the dollar got stronger, so things got cheaper.  Von Mises would say, that’s the way things ought to be.  The folks got more for their money, inflation was adjusted with deflation and saving and investing made sense.  Banks, on the other hand, got slapped when they made bad investments, so they bribed Congress to pass the Federal Reserve Act, so the people would suffer instead. That also meant that Congress had a blank check.  Now they have a big debt and are looking for ways to make you pay for it.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

Obama Cited for Treason

Then there is this letter..

To the Department of Justice

from Senior Chief Petty Officer Geoff Ross US Navy retired. 

I understand you are charging Mr. Edward Snowden for espionage for outing the NSA and its illegal and unconstitutional spying on American citizens.  This great American has pulled back the curtain in OZ to show us who the wizard is destroying this nation.  We salute him. We honor him.   We hereby submit treason charges against Barack Hussein Obama in response to the espionage charges you level against Mr. Snowden.

SUBJECT: FORMAL CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS NAMING BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA COMMISSION OF TREASON!

 1. President OBAMA represents a clear and present danger to U.S. national security,

to the U.S. Constitution and to our Republican form of government.
OBAMA IS A FOREIGN BORN DOMESTIC ENEMY! OBAMA is working assiduously to destroy America! No document record exists showing Barack Hussein OBAMA to be a United States citizen.

2. OBAMA paid money and aided and abetted Al-Qaeda members and groups that attacked Americans on U.S. territory in Benghazi, Libya on 11 and 12 September 2012. Al-Qaeda is the jihadist terrorist organization that attacked the United States on 11 September 2001.

3. Pro-jihadist and Islamist OBAMA personally denied frantic cries for help from Americans in mortal danger throughout a 7-hour attack by approximately 150 heavily armed known jihadists. OBAMA watched four Americans die in real time. OBAMA is allowing our enemies to slaughter our servicemen piecemeal at the same time ordering our troops to disarm.

4. OBAMA lies to the American people about his TREASON with every opportunity. OBAMA is lying to the American people about the 11-12 September attack in Benghazi, Libya in a cover story intended to protect OBAMA from facing a criminal prosecution and conviction.

5. OBAMA is personally responsible for the 6 August 2011 shoot-down of an Army CH-47D Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan. 17 Navy SEALS died. All 5 men of the Chinook crew died. 3 Air Force special tactics airmen died. 5 men of a Navy support force died. OBAMA and his gang of outlaws lie to the America people about that.

6. In commission of TREASON OBAMA is engaged in purchasing and supplying guns, heavy weapons, high-powered munitions and explosives to foreign aggressors-AMERICA'S ENEMIES-around the globe. OBAMA has and continues to ship weapons from Libya to Syria through Turkey. Some weapons may be being directly shipped to Syria. Christopher Stevens was OBAMA's point man of this operation when Stevens was murdered in Benghazi during the attack of 11-12 September 2012. In this TREASON OBAMA is arming America's enemies: Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood connected Syrian rebels.

7. As an Act of TREASON OBAMA provides safe-haven and sanctuary to those bent on the destruction of the United States, its people, and its form of government. OBAMA encourages, facilitates and arms our enemies to carry out a WAR on the United States from enemy bases set up in the homeland and around the globe. OBAMA aids and abets these known enemy forces to establish and strike from strongholds OBAMA allows established on American soil.

8. OBAMA refuses to pledge his allegiance to the United States. OBAMA conspires with leaders of countries, groups and organizations bent upon the destruction of America. By so doing OBAMA engages in TREASON against the United States in every aspect of TREASON.

9. As an Act of TREASON OBAMA broke into and occupies the White House by force of contrivance, concealment, conceit, dissembling and deceit. OBAMA is an undocumented illegal alien and spy. Posing as an imposter president and commander-in-chief OBAMA strips civilian command and control over the military establishment. Known military criminal actors command racketeers such as Martin Dempsey-are free in the exercise of an extra-military government intent upon the destruction of our Republican, constitutional form of governance. There are dozens of senior military commanders no more obedient to the United States Constitution than is OBAMA.

10. OBAMA is joined in his TREASON by a raft of civilian criminal assistants too numerous to name in this submission. I leave it to the Grand Jury, in the conduct of an independent, autonomous, and unfettered investigation, to assign specificity and particularity to the list of OBAMA'S co-conspiring outlaws.

11. OBAMA is a FOREIGN BORN DOMESTIC ENEMY, an infiltrator, a traitor and a spy. OBAMA installed and operates a government that  rivals and competes with our U.S. Constitution. OBAMA operates government not found in our United States Constitution. If not arrested OBAMA will continue to commit TREASON. OBAMA is emboldened now

and more dangerous to this country's survival as a constitutional Republic than any other threat the United States faces in the world.

12. We come now to this reckoning: I accuse Barack Hussein OBAMA of TREASON. I accuse OBAMA'S military-political criminal assistants of TREASON. Their criminal mischief is recognized as TREASON in pure form. I expose and identify OBAMA and his criminal associates as TRAITORS (Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, Susan Rice,  and Martin Dempsey but a few).

13. It needs be said out loud and relentlessly: OBAMA is aiding and abetting America's enemies. OBAMA is lying to the American people in every regard going to OBAMA'S TREASONOUNS escapades. OBAMA IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

14.This submission renews and extends all previous filings naming OBAMA in commission of TREASON dating from 17 March 2009. The list of ACTS of OBAMA'S TREASON found in this formal criminal complaint is not exhaustive. Far from it.

15. My sworn duty is to stand against everything OBAMA stands for. The FOREIGN BORN DOMESTIC ENEMY OBAMA IS NOT MY PRESIDENT! HE IS NOT MY COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF!

Submitted by:

Senior Chief Ross US Navy Retired

June 21st 2013.

Written by:

Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III

United States Navy Retired... American's

 

Why Is Congress Rushing A Bad Immigration Bill?

The Senate's Democratic leadership and bipartisan Gang of Eight were in such a hurry to stop debate on their 1,200-page immigration bill that they didn't want anyone to read it. It's the latest in a long line of political travesties that threaten the future of our 237-year-old republic. Sadly, those who pass our laws can't be bothered even to read them these days. But if they did, they might be shocked to discover that the "Immigration Reform Bill," after the Corker-Hoeven amendment, has turned into a giant pinata stuffed with all kinds of hidden pork and goodies to make it easier for senators to choke down. "When you pass complicated legislation and no one has really read the bill," Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward noted on Fox News Sunday, "the outcome is absurd." He's right. Just like the bloated, pork-filled ObamaCare bill before it, immigration reform has lots of juicy tidbits in it to buy the votes of key legislators. And, also like ObamaCare, legislators and average citizens alike will have to "pass the bill to find out what's in it," in former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's now-infamous phrase.

Among other things, the bill:• Adds $1.5 billion to President Obama's failed jobs stimulus, a gift to socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.• Turns the Travel Promotion Act, which was supposed to end in 2015, into a permanent program at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. Prime beneficiaries? Las Vegas casino interests, a gift to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.• Makes a range of serious crimes for which U.S. citizens can be arrested and imprisoned — including assault and battery, drunk driving and tax fraud — "waivable" for illegal immigrants when it comes to their amnesty status.• Gives Alaskan "Seafood processing" jobs special status as "shortage occupations," letting those industries hire low-skilled illegal immigrants to fill "temporary" jobs, a bipartisan favor to Alaska Sens. Mark Begich (Democrat) and Lisa Murkowski (Republican).

That, no doubt, isn't a comprehensive list. But since no one has read the bill — the latest version of immigration reform was issued less than 75 hours before Monday's vote — it's impossible even to say how much pork is in the bill the Senate is voting on. But even if you took out all the pork, the bill should be rejected. Both parties late last week trumpeted the Corker-Hoeven amendment as a "tough" answer for average Americans' insistence that the border be secured first before legalizing 11 million illegal aliens. And, on the surface, it sounds good: Corker-Hoeven doubles the number of border agents and authorizes the construction of 700 miles of border fence. The so-called Gang of Eight claims that should allay any concerns over border security. It does no such thing.

To begin with, the bill doesn't require the adding of 20,000 new border agents until 2021 — which, as we all know, means it will never happen. Also, it  leaves in place a provision that gives Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano — not Congress — power to stop the fence from being built.

Indeed, by some estimates, the bill allows for as many as 60 million more illegals to come in over the next decade. Without securing our border, the fiscal impact of this human flood would be devastating to our nation. Just legalizing 11 million will cost U.S. taxpayers $6.3 trillion in coming decades, according to a study by the Heritage Foundation.

This latest display of fiscal recklessness and a lack of concern for average citizens shows why Americans are increasingly distrustful of Congress. The most recent Gallup data show Congress' favorability now at just 10% — its lowest level ever, ranking them at the very bottom of all the major institutions in America. If Senate Democrats and their allies were designing a plan of action to undermine Americans' faith in our democratic republic, they couldn't have done a better job than this.

Source: Investor's Business Posted 06/24/2013 06:43 PM ET Daily:  http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/062413-661240-gang-of-8-immigration-reform-bill-turns-into-pork.htm#ixzz2XDchnOXC 

 

Obama Doing What Americans Want Least

When Barack Obama was sworn into office this January for his second term, what did you think were the priorities that needed to be addressed the most?

According to a survey conducted by Pew Research, Americans listed their priorities as:

1.  Strengthening the economy – 86%
2.  Improving job situation – 79%
3.  Reducing budget deficit – 72%
4.  Defending against terrorism – 71%
5.  Making Social Security financially sound – 70%
6.  Improving education – 70%
7.  Making Medicare financially sound – 65%
8.  Reducing health costs – 63%

The lowest priorities listed by Americans were:

17.  Dealing with illegal immigration – 39%
18.  Strengthening gun laws – 37%
21. Dealing with global warming – 28%

So far this year, what have been Obama’s priorities?  Gun laws, immigration and now climate control/global warming.  The number one priority on Obama’s agenda in January was gun control.  When that failed, he turned to immigration and now he’s turning to global warming and climate control.

He’s done little to strengthen the nation’s economy or reduce the national deficit.  The sequestration was a drop in the bucket that had more to do with political posturing than it did reducing the deficit.  In fact, the President’s extravagant lifestyle and family vacations are clear indications that he cares nothing about the economy or the national debt.

As for jobs, Obamacare has already been taking its toll on American jobs.  Many employers have reduced staff because of the increased costs of mandated benefits.  A growing list of employers are making drastic cuts in employees’ hours taking them from 40 hours a week to less than 30 hours so they don’t have to pay them benefits.  Still other employers believe that paying the penalty for not providing benefits is cheaper than actually providing the benefits, so thousands of Americans are losing the employer provided health benefits.

Obama listens to and cares about Americans as much as much as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg listens to a genetically obese person.  His ears are muffled, his eyes are covered with blinders and his heart is as cold as stone (both Obama and Bloomberg).  Is it any wonder that there is a complete disconnect between the White House, Congress and the American people?

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Sources:  Political Outcast, 6/25/13, by Dave Jolly http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/06/obama-doing-what-americans-want-least/#ixzz2XFVsFvq4
Pew Research, 1/24/13, http://www.people-press.org/2013/01/24/deficit-reduction-rises-on-publics-agenda-for-obamas-second-term/

 

More Open Borders Cost

IRS refunds $46,378,040 to 23,994 illegals at 1 address

Agency also assigned 15,796 taxpayer IDS to ‘unauthorized aliens’ at single residence

(CNS News) – The Internal Revenue Service sent 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 to “unauthorized” alien workers who all used the same address in Atlanta, Ga., in 2011, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).

That was not the only Atlanta address theoretically occupied by thousands of “unauthorized” alien workers receiving millions in federal tax refunds in 2011. In fact, according to a TIGTA audit report published last year, four of the top ten addresses to which the IRS sent thousands of tax refunds to “unauthorized” aliens were in Atlanta.

The IRS sent 11,284 refunds worth a combined $2,164,976 to unauthorized alien workers at a second Atlanta address; 3,608 worth $2,691,448 to a third; and 2,386 worth $1,232,943 to a fourth.

Other locations on the IG’s Top Ten list for singular addresses that were theoretically used simultaneously by thousands of unauthorized alien workers, included an address in Oxnard, Calif, where the IRS sent 2,507 refunds worth $10,395,874; an address in Raleigh, North Carolina, where the IRS sent 2,408 refunds worth $7,284,212; an address in Phoenix, Ariz., where the IRS sent 2,047 refunds worth $5,558,608; an address in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where the IRS sent 1,972 refunds worth $2,256,302; an address in San Jose, Calif., where the IRS sent 1,942 refunds worth $5,091,027; and an address in Arvin, Calif., where the IRS sent 1,846 refunds worth $3,298,877.

Since 1996, the IRS has issued what it calls Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) to two classes of persons: 1) non-resident aliens who have a tax liability in the United States, and 2) aliens living in the United States who are “not authorized to work in the United States.”

The IRS has long known it was giving these numbers to illegal aliens, and thus facilitating their ability to work illegally in the United States. For example, the Treasury Inspector General’s Semiannual Report to Congress published on Oct. 29, 1999—nearly fourteen years ago—specifically drew attention to this problem.

“The IRS issues Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) to undocumented aliens to improve nonresident alien compliance with tax laws. This IRS practice seems counter-productive to the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) mission to identify undocumented aliens and prevent unlawful alien entry,” TIGTA warned in that long-ago report.

The inspector general’s 2012 audit report on the IRS’s handling of ITINs was spurred by two IRS employees who went to member of Congress “alleging that IRS management was requiring employees to assign Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN) even when the applications were fraudulent.”

In an August 2012 press release accompanying the audit report, TIGTA said the report “validated” the complaints of the IRS employees.

“TIGTA’s audit found that IRS management has not established adequate internal controls to detect and prevent the assignment of an ITIN to individuals submitting questionable applications,” said Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George. “Even more troubling, TIGTA found an environment which discourages employees from detecting fraudulent applications.”

In addition to the 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 that the IRS sent to a single address in Atlanta, the IG also discovered that the IRS had assigned 15,796 ITINs to unauthorized aliens who presumably resided at a single Atlanta address.

The IRS, according to TIGTA, also assigned ITINs to 15,028 unauthorized aliens presumably living at a single address in Dallas, Texas, and 10,356 to unauthorized aliens presumably living at a single address in Atlantic City, N.J.

Perhaps the most remarkable act of the IRS was this: It assigned 6,411 ITINs to unauthorized aliens presumably using a single address in Morganton, North Carolina. According to the 2010 Census, there were only 16,681 people in Morganton. So, for the IRS to have been correct in issuing 6,411 ITINS to unauthorized aliens at a single address Morganton it would have meant that 38 percent of the town’s total population were unauthorized alien workers using a single address.

TIGTA said there were 154 addresses around the country that appeared on 1,000 or more ITIN applications made to the IRS.

Source: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/irs-sent-46378040-refunds-23994-unauthorized-aliens-1-atlanta-address#sthash.t7sxuFL4.dpuf

Comments

The refunds from the “Top Ten Cities” listed above total $86,352,307.  Economist Milton Friedman once said: “You can have open borders or you can have a welfare state, but you cannot have both.” He was correct, but he was ignored.  Most of the money the federal government spends and gives away is wasted on scams.  We can either reduce the federal government’s footprint or we can go broke.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

End the U.N.

The U.N. continues to push for one-world government under their control with every treaty, proclamation and dirty trick they can muster. The global Marxist ‘Banksters’ have joined them as have half of our current and past Federal Elected Officials.  There is a Law on the Books that should stop this.

HR 7249 Prohibits Teaching World Government.

In 1952, H.R. 7249, Public Law 82-495, 66 Stat. 549 was passed and codified into law.  Page 7 of this law (66 Stat. 556) includes the following language:

SEC. 111. No part of any appropriation contained in this title shall be used to pay the salary or expenses of any person assigned to or serving in any office of any of the several States of the United States or any political subdivision thereof.

SEC. 112. None of the funds appropriated in this title shall be used

 (1) to pay the United States contribution to any international organization which engages in the direct or indirect promotion of the principle or doctrine of one world government or one world citizenship;

 (2) for the promotion, direct or indirect, of the principle or doctrine of one world government or one world citizenship.

This Law needs to be resurrected and enforced.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

 

Federal nullification efforts mounting in states

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Imagine the scenario: A federal agent attempts to arrest someone for illegally selling a machine gun. Instead, the federal agent is arrested - charged in a state court with the crime of enforcing federal gun laws.

Farfetched? Not as much as you might think.

The scenario would become conceivable if legislation passed by Missouri's Republican-led Legislature is signed into law by Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon.

The Missouri legislation is perhaps the most extreme example of a states' rights movement that has been spreading across the nation. States are increasingly adopting laws that purport to nullify federal laws - setting up intentional legal conflicts, directing local police not to enforce federal laws and, in rare cases, even threatening criminal charges for federal agents who dare to do their jobs.

An Associated Press analysis found that about four-fifths of the states now have enacted local laws that directly reject or ignore federal laws on marijuana use, gun control, health insurance requirements and identification standards for driver's licenses. The recent trend began in Democratic leaning California with a 1996 medical marijuana law and has proliferated lately in Republican strongholds like Kansas, where Gov. Sam Brownback this spring became the first to sign a measure threatening felony charges against federal agents who enforce certain firearms laws in his state.

Some states, such as Montana and Arizona, have said "no" to the feds again and again - passing states' rights measures on all four subjects examined by the AP - despite questions about whether their "no" carries any legal significance.

"It seems that there has been an uptick in nullification efforts from both the left and the right," said Adam Winkler, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles who specializes in constitutional law.

Yet "the law is clear - the supremacy clause (of the U.S. Constitution) says specifically that the federal laws are supreme over contrary state laws, even if the state doesn't like those laws," Winkler added.

The fact that U.S. courts have repeatedly upheld federal laws over conflicting state ones hasn't stopped some states from flouting those federal laws - sometimes successfully.

About 20 states now have medical marijuana laws allowing people to use pot to treat chronic pain and other ailments - despite a federal law that still criminalizes marijuana distribution and possession. Ceding ground to the states, President Barack Obama's administration has made it known to federal prosecutors that it wasn't worth their time to target those people.

Federal authorities have repeatedly delayed implementation of the 2005 Real ID Act, an anti-terrorism law that set stringent requirements for photo identification cards to be used to board commercial flights or enter federal buildings. The law has been stymied, in part, because about half the state legislatures have opposed its implementation, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

About 20 states have enacted measures challenging Obama's 2010 health care laws, many of which specifically reject the provision mandating that most people have health insurance or face tax penalties beginning in 2014.

After Montana passed a 2009 law declaring that federal firearms regulations don't apply to guns made and kept in that state, eight other states have enacted similar laws. Gun activist Gary Marbut said he crafted the Montana measure as a foundation for a legal challenge to the federal power to regulate interstate commerce under the U.S. Constitution. His lawsuit was dismissed by a trial judge but is now pending before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

"The states created this federal monster, and so it's time for the states to get their monster on a leash," said Marbut, president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1997 that local police could not be compelled to carry out provisions of a federal gun control law. But some states are now attempting to take that a step further by asserting that certain federal laws can't even be enforced by federal authorities.

A new Kansas law makes it a felony for a federal agent to attempt to enforce laws on guns made and owned in Kansas. A similar Wyoming law, passed in 2010, made it a misdemeanor. The Missouri bill also would declare it a misdemeanor crime but would apply more broadly to all federal gun laws and regulations - past, present, or future - that "infringe on the people's right to keep and bear arms."

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter in late April to the Kansas governor warning that the federal government is willing to go to court over the new law.

"Kansas may not prevent federal employees and officials from carrying out their official responsibilities," Holder wrote.

Federal authorities in the western district of Missouri led the nation in prosecutions for federal weapons offenses through the first seven months of the 2013 fiscal year, with Kansas close behind, according to a data clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

Felons illegally possessing firearms is the most common charge nationally. But the Missouri measure sets it sights on nullifying federal firearms registrations and, among other things, a 1934 law that imposes a tax on transferring machine guns or silencers. Last year, the federal government prosecuted 83 people nationally for unlawful possession of machine guns.

So what would happen if a local prosecutor actually charges a federal agent for doing his or her job?

"They're going to have problems if they do it - there's no doubt about it," said Michael Boldin, executive director of the Tenth Amendment Center, a Los Angeles-based entity that promotes states' rights. "There's no federal court in the country that's going to say that a state can pull this off."

Yet states may never need to prosecute federal agents in order to make their point.

If enough states resist, "it's going to be very difficult for the federal government to force their laws down our throats," Boldin said.

Missouri's governor has not said whether he will sign or veto the bill nullifying federal gun laws. Meanwhile, thousands of people have sent online messages to the governor's office about the legislation.

Signing the measure "will show other states how to resist the tyranny of federal bureaucrats who want to rob you of your right to self-defense," said one message, signed by Jim and Arlena Sowash, who own a gun shop in rural Stover, Mo.

Others urged a veto.

"Outlandish bills like this - completely flouting our federal system - make Missouri the laughing stock of the nation," said a message written by Ann Havelka, of the Kansas City suburb of Gladstone.

Source: Associated Press June 21, 2013 12:30 pm

Comment:

The Supremacy Clause is meant for the Supreme Courts of each State.  The notion that Federal Law trumps State Law is false.  That comment made by Winkler (above) is wrong. The States created the Federal government and put in a ‘box” called the U.S. Constitution.  Over time, the Federal has launched forays out of the box.  Most of these unconstitutional adventures have created disasters.

The Nullification movement needs to succeed to reset our laws to what works, or our economy is doomed.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader