Oren wrote:

Turns out Bundy is a real dumb ass. He never had a lawyer in the
first court appearance (98?) and tried to represent himself (fool for
a client). Therefore, the case was not appealed in the 9th Circuit
Court of Appeals (dumb)

He's like those 'sovereign citizens' who dream up some defense based on
Admiralty law, the Magna Carta, and a few other odds and ends to justify why
they don't have to pay taxes or get licenses. The lucky ones don't get shot
or pull a lot of hard time.

The Montana Firearms Freedom Act sounds like a 2nd Amendment thing, which it
is in part. However the 10th Amendment is the real thrust of it. It took a
lot of work to get the Act passed and signed by a Democratic governor, but
it got done. Right now the fight is to get standing in the 9th Circuit as a
stepping stone to the SCOTUS. If the Sagebrush Rebellion types had spent the
last 20 years challenging the federal control of the majority of western
land, they might be further ahead that just having the odd ****ing contests
with the BLM.