A collection of lawmakers, allied with a state gun control group, are challenging a bill — the “strongest firearms preemption statute in the country” — signed into law by Gov. Corbett (R) earlier this month.
The measure, added as an amendment to a metal theft bill, had passed the state legislature earlier this month by wide margins. It allows groups such as the National Rifle Association to stand in for local citizens in challenging gun city and county control ordinances stronger than the state’s own laws in court.
It is that very allowance that has gun control groups and state Democrats banding together to fight its implementation.
“The best defense is a good offense and we’re going on the offense,” Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray (D) told local media, explaining why his city entered a lawsuit against the state to block the new law. Gray, who is chair of the Pennsylvania Chapter of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, is not enamored with the possibility that the city could have to defend its ordinances in a legal battle with national gun rights groups.
“Win or lose, it would result in a costly expenditure by the city,” Gray said.
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5 comments:
See what happens when you F with peoples' Second amendment rights?
We fight back tenfold!
NRA IS stonger!!!! And will help that city and prevail... Bloomburg and his band of libtarded crime ridden cesspool called cities mayor group are wasting time...
ALL gun laws are unconstitutional.
This is the Democratic pot calling the Republican kettle black. It seems it's okay for the Dems to bring in any organization they want to promote their agenda, but when the shoe is on the other foot...
Do you see how it's done Gov. Hogan? Get on it. We the people are watching.
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