00HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 35                                                                                         
01 Relating to requesting the United States Congress to repeal the "Brady Handgun                                          
02 Protection Act".                                                                                                        
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                              
04  WHEREAS the Constitution of the United States, in the Second Amendment,                                              
05 guarantees protection for all citizens to keep and bear arms; and                                                       
06  WHEREAS art I, sec. 19, Constitution of the State of Alaska, asserts that the right to                               
07 keep and bear arms is an individual right; and                                                                          
08  WHEREAS the "Brady Handgun Protection Act" has directly undermined a                                                 
09 fundamental protection each citizen has under the supreme law of the land; and                                          
10  WHEREAS the "Brady Handgun Protection Act" has been used by those who would                                          
11 outlaw the use of arms by law-abiding citizens through regulations that are intrusive and                               
12 through intimidation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation through the use of background                               
13 checks; and                                                                                                             
14  WHEREAS the "Brady Handgun Protection Act" violates the provisions guaranteeing                                      

01 the right to keep and bear arms in both the Alaska and the United States Constitutions, and                             
02 it violates the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States;                                               
03  BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature respectfully requests that the                                      
04 United States Congress uphold the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States                             
05 and repeal the "Brady Handgun Protection Act".                                                                          
06  COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Bill Clinton, President of the                              
07 United States; the Honorable Al Gore, Jr., Vice-President of the United States and President                            
08 of the U.S. Senate; Louis Freeh, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the                                   
09 Honorable Trent Lott, Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable J. Dennis Hastert,                              
10 Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; to the Honorable Ron Paul, U.S. Representative                            
11 from Texas; and to the Honorable Ted Stevens and the Honorable Frank Murkowski, U.S.                                    
12 Senators, and the Honorable Don Young, U.S. Representative, members of the Alaska                                       
13 delegation in Congress.