Marbut

Nicosia said it was unfair that people outside the district, such as Marbut, had inserted themselves into the situation and painted the school district and its board with one sweeping negative brush.

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Nicosia said it was unfair that people outside the district, such as Marbut, had inserted themselves into the situation and painted the school district and its board with one sweeping negative brush.

FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010

Mr. Marbut says he doesn't belong to a tea-party group, though "I get along with them, philosophically."

A Gun Activist Takes Aim at U.S. Regulatory Power Jess Bravin 2011

For years, Mr. Marbut argued that a wide range of federal laws, not just gun regulations, should be invalid because they were based on an erroneous interpretation of Congress's constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce.

A Gun Activist Takes Aim at U.S. Regulatory Power Jess Bravin 2011

Mark Meckler , national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots, says Mr. Marbut has engineered "a wonderful legal approach to doing" what he considers "the fundamental issue of our time…putting government back in the box."

A Gun Activist Takes Aim at U.S. Regulatory Power Jess Bravin 2011

After a dispute with others in the state's National Rifle Association affiliate in the late 1980s, Mr. Marbut set up his own lobbying organization, the Montana Shooting Sports Association.

A Gun Activist Takes Aim at U.S. Regulatory Power Jess Bravin 2011

Following a strategy pioneered by Thurgood Marshall and the civil-rights movement, Mr. Marbut rounded up allies to file friend-of-the-court briefs.

A Gun Activist Takes Aim at U.S. Regulatory Power Jess Bravin 2011

It wrote to Mr. Marbut saying: "Federal law supersedes the Montana Firearms Freedom Act, and all provisions of the Gun Control Act and the National Firearms Act" remain in force.

A Gun Activist Takes Aim at U.S. Regulatory Power Jess Bravin 2011

“This is a fad that has spun out of California,” said Gary Marbut, president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association, a Missoula-based gun rights group.

Montana Sportsmen Open Fire On Proposed Lead Ban 2010

Mr. Marbut, 65, lives alone outside Missoula, in a solar-powered geodesic dome he built from a kit, on the remnant of a cattle ranch his family once owned.

A Gun Activist Takes Aim at U.S. Regulatory Power Jess Bravin 2011