Desmoines County – 35th 2A Sanctuary

The Des Moines County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution, unanimously, to make their community Iowa’s 35th Second Amendment Sanctuary County on Tuesday, which is also National Second Amendment Day.  

 

“We are pleased to see yet another county, with one of Iowa’s largest urban areas, become a Second Amendment Sanctuary and we would like to thank Des Moines County’s Supervisors for taking this step today,” said Dave Funk, IFC President. “As more counties continue to pass Second Amendment Sanctuary resolutions, we are confident a message is being sent to our legislators in Des Moines and Washington that Iowans will not stand for violations against our civil rights.”    

 

Second Amendment Sanctuary resolutions at the county level do not supersede federal law but they do prevent local resources from being used to assist the federal government in efforts that violate the Second Amendment. 

      

The IFC has been working with state and local elected officials to protect the right of Iowans to keep and bear arms in the wake of threats by some in Washington, D.C. to support actions which would infringe upon the Second Amendment. 

 

On Thursday (2/24), from 2-4:30PM, hundreds of Iowans from all over the state will gather at the Iowa Capitol Building for Iowa’s own “Second Amendment Day” to show their support for the right to keep and bear arms, which includes making all of Iowa a Second Amendment Sanctuary State.  Today is also Brownells first annual National 2nd Amendment Day.

 

Iowa’s Second Amendment Sanctuary Counties, so far, also include: Mitchell, Chickasaw, Pocahontas, Hardin, Carroll, Jasper, Cedar, Washington, Madison, Mills, Adams, Clarke, Humboldt, Kossuth, Ringgold, Buchanan, Van Buren, Winnebago, Decatur, Dallas, Guthrie, Benton, Page, Lucas, Taylor, Union, Hancock, Buena Vista, Pottawattamie, Cherokee, Montgomery, Fremont, Muscatine and Wayne. 

 

The Iowa Firearms Coalition, an affiliate of both the NRA and the NSSF, is a 501(c4) nonprofit and is Iowa’s only effective pro-Second Amendment rights organization.