Ordinance from 1983 forbids “any person to use, fire or discharge any gun or other firearm within the borough"
A Pennsylvania town has scrubbed a planned Memorial Day 21-gun salute honoring its Civil War heroes because of elders’ blind adherence to a local ordinance.
A 1983 Stroudsburg, Penn., ordinance forbids “any person to use, fire or discharge any gun or other firearm within the borough,” which includes discharging blanks, according to the Pocono Record, which reported:
Stroudsburg Borough Council member Boyd Weiss said the 21-gun salute is a practice that has taken place in the borough for most of his life.
Weiss said he understands why the ordinance is in place, but he thought an exception could be made because the salute was customary at similar events in the past.
“I couldn’t understand that,” Weiss said. “My entire life we’ve had gun salutes on Veterans Days or in celebration of veterans.”
Because the cemetery lies within the borough limits, the ordinance would bar a military funeral with full honors, Weiss said.
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Good grief, how hard is it to amend the law to require a permit or something?
ReplyDeleteGood Lord, the liberals have taken over the Pocono Mountains.
ReplyDeleteThe local government could have taken care of this with a piece of paper. The local police could have refused to arrest or charge. The local state's attorney, ditto.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds as though somebody waited until the last minute to ask permission and then got spanked.
pa is a sh!thole, why you think they all come down here?
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ReplyDeleteYeah.., sh!t goes downhill to the cesspool.
would that be harrisburg or DC?
ReplyDeleteIt is the same at Arlington. On the 30th. of this month, our civil war group is going over to lay a wreathe on the Tomb of unknown civil war soldiers, and we are not allowed to fire a salute!
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