What a wonderful example local law enforcement is setting here. They are using the Constitution properly, because it LIMITS the power of the federal government, and they’re doing it to protect their local citizens 2nd Amendment rights.

Posted with permission from the IDPA
Subject: Federalism vs the feds

WYOMING SHERIFFS PUT FEDERAL OFFICERS ON CHOKE CHAINS
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>> >County sheriffs in Wyoming are insisting that all federal law
enforcement officers and personnel from federal regulatory agencies must
clear all their activities in a Wyoming county with the Sheriff’s
Office. Speaking at a press conference following the recent US District
Court decision (case No 2:96-cv-099-J) Bighorn County Sheriff Dave Mattis
stated that all federal officials are forbidden to enter his
county without his prior approval.

“If a sheriff doesn’t want the Feds in his county he has the constitutional
power and right to keep them out or ask them to leave or retain them in
custody.”

The court decision came about after Mattis & other members of the Wyoming
Sheriffs’ Association brought a suit against both the BATF and the IRS in
the Wyoming federal court district seeking restoration of the protections
enshrined in the United States Constitution and the Wyoming
Constitution. The District Court ruled in favor of the sheriffs, stating
that, “Wyoming is a sovereign state and the duly elected sheriff of a
county is the highest law enforcement official within a county and has law
enforcement powers exceeding that of any other state or federal official.”

The Wyoming sheriffs are demanding access to all BATF files to verify that
the agency is not violating provisions of Wyoming law that prohibit the
registration of firearms or the keeping of a registry of firearm owners.
The sheriffs are also demanding that federal agencies immediately cease the
seizure of private property and the impoundment of private bank accounts
without regard to due process in state courts.

Sheriff Mattis stated, “I am reacting to the actions of federal employees
who have attempted to
deprive citizens of my county of their privacy, their liberty, and their
property without regard to constitutional safeguards. I hope that more
sheriffs all across America will join us in protecting their citizens from
the illegal activities of the IRS, EPA, BATF, FBI, or any other federal
agency that is operating outside the confines of constitutional law.
Employees of the IRS and the EPA are no longer welcome in Bighorn County
unless they intend to operate in conformance to constitutional law.”

This case is evidence that the Tenth Amendment is not yet dead in the
United States. It may also be interpreted to mean that political
subdivisions of a State are included within the meaning of the
amendment, or that the powers exercised by a sheriff are an extension of
those common law powers which the Tenth Amendment explicitly reserves to
the People, if they are not granted to the federal government and
specifically prohibited to the States. >>
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