By L.M. Boyd | AZ Mirror
A Republican lawmaker wants to repeal the Arizona law banning people from owning machine guns, silencers, sawed-off shotguns and even pipe bombs and other homemade explosive devices.
While federal law would still sharply restrict ownership of those deadly weapons, Rep. Alexander Kolodin’s “Shall Not Be Infringed Act” would make it impossible for local prosecutors to go after anyone who has those weapons, even if they’re breaking federal law to do so.
And that is exactly the point, Kolodin said.
“What this bill says is, if the feds want to infringe on our Second Amendment rights, they can darn well pay for doing that themselves, and we’re not going to have Arizona law enforcement do it,” the Scottsdale Republican told the Arizona Mirror.
Kolodin’s House Concurrent Resolution 2037 strikes out the entire section of state law that prohibits deadly weapons. If it’s taken up by the legislature — it’s been assigned to the House Judiciary Committee but not yet considered — and wins support in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, then Arizona voters would have to approve the change in 2026.
