COEUR d'ALENE - The Kootenai County commissioners scheduled a meeting for Tuesday to discuss a Republican central committee resolution on the Second Amendment.

"We try and consider things when they come across our desk," Commissioner Todd Tondee said Wednesday. "We have to look at all of the ramifications."

The commissioners will consider the resolution with input from both Kootenai County Prosecutor Barry McHugh and Sheriff Ben Wolfinger, Tondee said.

In a Dec. 2 letter from Kootenai County Republican Central Committee chairman Neil Oliver to the commissioners, he wrote, "We are asking the board to adopt an ordinance to prohibit the federal government from infringing on the right of Kootenai County citizens to keep and bear arms."

Commissioner Dan Green said the board has a responsibility to consider all ideas brought to them by constituents. He said he won't have an opinion on the resolution until he has heard from his fellow commissioners, the sheriff and prosecutor.

Wolfinger was present when the central committee voted on the resolution last month, but the committee didn't let him speak about it.

Commissioner Jai Nelson said she has received a draft legal opinion on the resolution from McHugh. She said he will be bringing the final opinion to Tuesday's meeting.

Barry Peterson, chairman of the Idaho Republican Party, said Wednesday he doesn't know if action has been taken by any other local central committees in the state.

He knows they are "talking about it," he said.

He hasn't heard of any county governments taking up the issue.

The resolution is in harmony with the state party position, and support for the Second Amendment is part of the party's platform, he said.

"This particular issue, I wouldn't call it a hot-button issue," Peterson said. Still, he said, "It's the personality of our state that the people have the right to be armed."

The meeting Tuesday starts at 3 p.m., and will be conducted in the commissioners' boardroom.