West Virginia Legislature
1st Session of the 85th Legislature
Passed into Law: House Bill 2694
Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (July 9, 2021)
SUMMARY: Create the 2nd Amendment Preservation Act
http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2694&year=2021&sessiontype=RS

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 7B. THE SECOND AMENDMENT PRESERVATION ACT.

§61-7B-1. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as the “Second Amendment Preservation Act”.

§61-7B-2. Legislative findings.

The Legislature of the State of West Virginia finds:

(a) That the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental individual right that may not be infringed, and;

(b) Firearm owners are valuable and essential members of the West Virginia community. With over 60% of all West Virginia citizens owning firearms, any firearm restriction adversely affects all of West Virginia, and;

(c) A relationship of trust between West Virginia’s firearm owners and state and local agencies is central to the public safety of the people of West Virginia, and;

(d) This trust is threatened when state and local agencies are entangled with federal law enforcement, with the result that firearm owners and community members fear approaching police when they are victims of and/or witnesses to crimes, seeking basic health services, or attending school, to the detriment of public safety and the well-being of all West Virginians, and;

(e) Entangling state and local agencies with federal law enforcement programs diverts already limited resources and blurs the lines of accountability between local, state, and federal governments, and;

(f) State and local participation in federal law enforcement programs also raises constitutional concerns, including the prospect that West Virginia residents could be detained in violation of the Fourth Amendment and Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, or targeted on the basis of political affiliation, religion, or other protected classes. Additionally, entanglement between state and federal forces raises issues of conflicts of the West Virginia State Constitution and;

(g) This bill seeks to ensure effective policing, to protect the safety, well-being, and constitutional rights of the people of West Virginia, and to direct the state’s limited resources to matters of greatest concern to state and local governments and;

(h) This act shall not be construed as providing, expanding, or ratifying any legal authority for any state or local law enforcement agency to participate in federal firearm law enforcement. Instead, it is the legislature’s goal to protect West Virginia employees, including law-enforcement officers, from being directed, through federal executive orders, agency orders, statutes, laws, rules, or regulations in effect on or after the effective date of this article, to violate their oath of office and individual rights affirmed under the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and Article 3, Section 22 of the Constitution of the State of West Virginia and;

(i) That pursuant to and in furtherance of the principles of federalism enshrined in the Constitution of the United States, and recognized by the Unites States Supreme Court, the federal government may not commandeer this state’s officers, agents, or employees to participate in the enforcement or facilitation of any federal act or regulatory program, and;

(j) That this right to be free from the commandeering hand of the federal government has been most notably recognized by the United States Supreme Court in Printz v. United States when the Court held: The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program.
https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/2021/billhistory/House-Bill-2694-2021-RS-History.pdf

References:

(1) "Right to keep and bear arms", aka U.S. Federal Bill of Rights, 2nd Amendment
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/second_amendment

(2) "Search and Seizure", aka U.S. Federal Bill of Rights, 4th Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/fourth_amendment

(3) "Reserved powers", aka U.S. Federal Bill of Rights, 10th Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/tenth_amendment

(4) Printz v. United States, 521 U.S. 898 (1997)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9683318148026459805&hl=en&as_sdt=2006

Images

(1) Statue of Liberty Image by Santiago Masquelet.
Web Link: freeimages.com/photo/statue-of-liberty-1639020

(2) Two U.S. Flags (representing U.S. Federal Bill of Rights, 2nd Amendment) with "The Bond Arms Patriot, in .45 Colt & .410, Honors of Military Veterans. Capable of firing both .45 Colt and .410 shotshells, the Bond Arms Patriot, featuring laser-carved rosewood grips, provides a unique defense gun."
Web Link #1: personaldefenseworld.com/2019/11/bond-arms-patriot
Web Link #2: bondarms.com/bond-arms-handguns/patriot
Web Link #2: bondarms.com/gun-safety-education

(3) Broken shackle chain
Web Link: clipartsuggest.com/brokenchain-free-images-at-clker-com-vector-clip-art-online-BJU2Dn-clipart