In Re Maynard

¶1 Pursuant to Rule 44, M.R.App.P., the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Montana certified the following question to us:

Under Montana’s liberal construction of exemptions, is a debtor allowed, in addition to the exemptions claimed under § 25-13-609(1), MCA, an exemption pursuant to § 25-13-613(1)(b), MCA, for one gun based upon such subsection alone, or in conjunction with the definition of “militia forces” in Article VI, Section 13 of the Constitution of the State of Montana, where the debtor is not a member of the Montana National Guard, the Montana Home Guard or the…