Should sheriffs be deciding what is or isn't constitutional?

In one sense, it's amusing and somewhat admirable to see the left's sanctuary city tactic turned around and used against them. Defiant U.S. sheriffs push gun sanctuaries, imitating liberals on immigration:

(Reuters) - A rapidly growing number of counties in at least four states are declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries, refusing to enforce gun-control laws that they consider to be infringements on the U.S. constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

Organizers of the pro-gun sanctuaries admit they took the idea from liberals who have created immigration sanctuaries across the United States where local officials defy the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce tougher immigration laws.

And this. Rural Sheriffs Defy New Gun Measures:

For instance, in New Mexico, 30 of 33 county sheriffs have signed a letter pledging to not help enforce several gun-control measures supported by Democrats in Santa Fe, according to the state’s sheriff association. The sheriffs, who are elected, say they are heeding the wishes of voters in the counties they serve. More than two dozen counties in the state have enacted “sanctuary” resolutions backing the sheriffs and affirming that no tax dollars in their jurisdictions should go to enforcing the proposed laws.

Nationwide, some see their battle as a conservative version of the “sanctuary” resistance to the Trump administration’s illegal-immigration crackdown led by Democratic mayors in major cities like New York and Los Angeles.

“If a state or city can become a sanctuary for illegal immigration, then we can become a sanctuary for Second Amendment rights,” said Russell Shafer, sheriff of Quay County in eastern New Mexico.

That's a cute turnabout. Maybe the publicity points scored with the tactic might be worth it. But is it really the job of law enforcement officers to interpret the constitution? Actually, that's the job of the Supreme Court. They should take another page from leftist's book and find a friendly forum in which to sue for enforcement of the 2nd amendment.

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3:19 PM 3/13/2019