WYOMING: State Legislator Files Bill to Block Feds on Gun Control
Link to the bill: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2013/Introduced/HB0104.pdf
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0104
Firearm Protection Act.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Kroeker, Baker, Burkhart,
Jaggi, Miller, Piiparinen, Reeder and
Winters and Senator(s) Dockstader and Hicks
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to firearms; providing that any federal law
2 which attempts to ban a semi-automatic firearm or to limit
3 the size of a magazine of a firearm or other limitation on
4 firearms in this state shall be unenforceable in Wyoming;
5 providing a penalty; and providing for an effective date.
6
7 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
8
9 Section 1. W.S. 6-8-405 is amended to read:
10
11 6-8-405. Offenses and penalties; defense of Wyoming
12 citizens.
13
14 (a) No public servant as defined in W.S. 6-5-101, or
15 dealer selling any firearm in this state shall enforce or
16 attempt to enforce any act, law, statute, rule or
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1 regulation of the United States government relating to a
2 personal firearm, firearm accessory or ammunition that is
3 owned or manufactured commercially or privately in Wyoming
4 and that remains exclusively within the borders of Wyoming.
5
6 (b) Any official, agent or employee of the United
7 States government who enforces or attempts to enforce any
8 act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the United
9 States government upon a personal firearm, a firearm
10 accessory or ammunition that is owned or manufactured
11 commercially or privately in Wyoming and that remains
12 exclusively within the borders of Wyoming shall be guilty
13 of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be
14 subject to imprisonment for not less than one (1) year
15 and one (1) day or more than five (5) years, a fine of not
16 more than five thousand
17 dollars ($5,000.00), or both.
18
19 (c) The attorney general may defend a citizen of
20 Wyoming who is prosecuted by the United States government
21 for violation of a federal law relating to the manufacture,
22 sale, transfer or possession of a firearm, a firearm
23 accessory or ammunition owned or manufactured and retained
24 exclusively within the borders of Wyoming.
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2 (d) Any federal law, rule, regulation or order
3 created or effective on or after January 1, 2013 shall be
4 unenforceable within the borders of Wyoming if the law,
5 rule, regulation or order attempts to:
6
7 (i) Ban or restrict ownership of a semi8
automatic firearm or any magazine of a firearm; or
9
10 (ii) Require any firearm, magazine or other
11 firearm accessory to be registered in any manner.
12
13 Section 2. This act is effective immediately upon
14 completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law
15 as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming
16 Constitution.
17
18 (END)
The state trying to enforce this against the Feds could get to be real interesting, for both the Feds and for the state.
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"...This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof..."
...which does include the 9A and 10A. It is specifically contrary for the federal government to make laws affecting intrastate commerce among citizens of the that state. The states cooperate in the enforcement of penalties for NICS violations. Federal laws which intrude into the area state matters which are contrary to established state laws would be unconstitutional.
Having said that I believe that some of the penalty provisions of the state law would be unenforceable and if a federal law against a sale is ignored by an FFL in that state, the feds probably can't send him to prison and no matter how much the state may like his actions, the ATF will likely pull his license.
It will make for an interesting court case. 
