Mississippi gov. moves to make Obama’s gun control ‘illegal’

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) on Wednesday sent a letter to Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves (R) and state Speaker of the House Philip Gunn (R) asking them to make President Barack Obama’s effort to control gun violence “illegal.”

Bryant made his letter public by posting it on Facebook hours before the president had even announced the gun safety measures.

“President Obama will likely issue an Executive Order today that infringes our constitutional right to keep and bear arms as never before in American history,” Bryant writes. “I am asking that you immediately pass legislation that would make any unconstitutional order the the President illegal to enforce in Mississippi by state or local law enforcement.”