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Okay? All sheriffs got this same visit from this federal agency, and they said Congress passed a law called the Brady bill, and in the Brady bill, it requires the sheriffs to enforce the gun control measures in this bill. And boy, there’s only 15 sheriffs in Arizona, and all the sheriffs were cussing up a storm. They threatened to arrest us if we failed to comply. Now, you need to get that. That’s an amazing, corrupt law. But they did. It was in the Brady bill. And in this little booklet here, I put that threat in here. It’s in here.
And so I put some excerpts from the Brady bill itself. And this is the Supreme Court’s highlights of this case. It’s the most powerful 10th Amendment, state sovereignty, local autonomy case in history of America. Everyone should get this. You should all read this. This is very historic. This is the only time in US history where sheriffs sued the federal government, took it all the way to the United States Supreme Court, and we won. We beat the Clinton administration on this. And so I’m very proud to talk about this case now, because it is so powerful.
And so the Brady bill was the first time in history where the federal government tried to commandeer and take over the office of sheriff and with a threat of arrest. So I sued and six other sheriffs joined me in the case, Sheriff Prince from Montana. He and I ended up at the Supreme Court in January of 1990 or December of 1996. Seven months later, the decision came out on the last day of the term of the United States Supreme Court, and they agreed with us. What I found out later is that there were actually five Brady bills scheduled to be passed one year after the other.
So in five years, the Brady bill movement would have completely destroyed the Second Amendment. And so a handful of sheriffs did more to preserve the Second Amendment than Congress has pretty much in the history of Congress. [tr:trw].
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