Meet the Sheriff Willing to Go to Jail to Protect His Residents’ Second Amendment Rights

By The Blaze. Colorado lawmakers are on the brink of passing a so-called “red flag” law, which would allow courts to revoke the Second Amendment rights of citizens who are declared threats to themselves or others.

Some Colorado sheriffs have vowed to not enforce the law if approved. And then there is Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams who has declared he is willing to go to jail in order to protect his constituents’ Second Amendment rights. . .

The law, which gun right advocates overwhelmingly oppose, has earned opposition from more than half of Colorado’s 64 counties, some of which have passed resolutions declaring their municipalities Second Amendment “sanctuaries.”

However, as CNN noted, failure to comply with a court order “to seize a person’s guns could mean sheriffs being found in contempt. A judge could fine them indefinitely, or even send them to jail to force them to comply.” For Reams, jail is a sacrifice he is willing to make.

“[The law] has so many constitutional questions,” Reams told KDVR-TV. “I can’t in good faith go forward and carry out a law that I believe puts constituents’ constitutional rights at risk.” (Read more from “Meet the Sheriff Willing to Go to Jail to Protect His Residents’ Second Amendment Rights” HERE)

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Resolution Declares Weld County to Be a ‘Second Amendment Sanctuary’

By Fox News 31. Sheriff Steve Reams said the bill crosses too many constitutional lines and says the issue is mental health, not firearms.

“I have a duty for public safety but also have a duty to protect the Constitution,” Reams said.

The commissioners affirmed their “support for the Weld County Sheriff in the exercise of his sound discretion to not enforce against any citizen an unconstitutional firearms law,” according to the resolution. . .

Reams said the “red flag” bill would put deputies in greater danger.

“The way the bill is written is asking me or my agency to go out and affect one of these gun grabs, if you will, without any notification to person that we’re coming,” he said. “I think that puts my agency at undo risk.” (Read more from “Resolution Declares Weld County to Be a ‘Second Amendment Sanctuary'” HERE)

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