Zeal For Truth

That is, they are threatening that if the Supreme Court rules disfavorably to an individual right to keep and bear arms in the Heller case, they will see that as a violation of their contract with the United States and reserve “all usual rights and remedies under historic contract law if its Compact should be violated by any ‘collective rights’ holding in Heller.”

The resolution, which has only been signed by some of the legislators, declares that “any ‘collective rights’ holding in D.C. v. Heller will violate Montana’s compact with the united states, the contract by which Montana entered the union in 1889.”

This, along with The Montana Sovereignty Protection Act and the state’s stringent opposition to Real ID, make it quite an attractive place for libertarian-leaning folks to reside.