Second Amendment Sanctuaries: Lake County, Florida, is the latest to join the list

The central Florida county is the latest municipality in the United States to pass a measure vowing to protect its residents from attempts at gun control.Cities and counties in Illinois, Colorado and California also have proclaimed themselves sanctuaries, saying they won't enforce state laws that infringe on residents' right to bear arms.The jurisdictions say the declarations -- a riff on "sanctuary cities" that protect immigrants -- are in response to gun control measures, including red flag laws and gun buyback programs, that they say violate the Second Amendment.Lake County Commissioner Josh Blake, who authored the Florida municipality's resolution, said it draws a line in the sand and "sends a message to what can best be described as the authoritarian control freaks."Gun sanctuaries across the USBlake's resolution is the latest in a string of others that have been approved across the country.Earlier this month, an Arizona county unanimously passed a similar resolution.In part, the resolution states the Mohave County Board of Supervisors "will not authorize or appropriate government funds, resources, employees, agencies, contractors, buildings, detention centers or offices for the purpose of enforcing laws that unconstitutionally infringe on the people's right to keep and bear arms."Texas counties have approved similar resolutions. One rural California city passed its own version over the summer. And counties in Illinois[1] jump-started the movement when they began passing resolutions last year.27 words: Deconstructing the Second Amendment [2]"We don't want our Second Amendment rights to be stripped away from us," David Campbell, vice chairman of the Effingham County Board, told CNN shortly after[3] the Illinois county passed its "sanctuary" resolution. "If we protect immigrants with sanctuary cities, why not use similar laws to protect our rights to own a gun?"But Darrell Miller, the co-director of the Duke Center for Firearms Law argues sanctuary resolutions are merely "constitutional

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