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Richard Ivan Mack (born December 27, 1952) is the former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona and a political activist. He is known for his role in a successful lawsuit brought against the federal government of the United States which alleged that portions of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act violated the United States Constitution .
Jul 28, 2021 · How a Small-Town Sheriff Ended Up on a Crusade to Radicalize American Law Enforcement. Richard Mack is the leader of a growing “Constitutional Sheriffs” movement, which claims sheriffs...
- Tess Owen
Apr 6, 2023 · The head of a far-right sheriff’s association has been accused of pilfering donor money from an anti-vaxxer group—but he says he was just keeping those Benjamins safe.
Nov 3, 2022 · Richard Mack is the founder of a group that trains sheriffs to resist state and federal authority on guns, COVID-19 and election results. The group claims that sheriffs are more powerful than the president and that they can interpose themselves between the government and the people.
- Maurice Chammah
Nov 11, 2012 · Mack, 59, is the raven-haired former sheriff of a sparsely populated Arizona county who was catapulted from obscurity to right-wing fame in the mid-1990s when he challenged the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and won a U.S. Supreme Court victory that weakened the gun-control law signed by President Bill Clinton.
Oct 29, 2021 · Richard Mack is a former Arizona sheriff and a founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, which promotes the idea that sheriffs can defy unconstitutional laws. He is also a former board member of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia group, and has been approved by Texas to provide official trainings for law enforcement officers.
Oct 22, 2022 · And as I got looking into sheriffs, I learned that there was this movement out there that had been really promoted by a particular figure on the right named Richard Mack, who claims that...