usmarine0352_2005
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I see that citizen's in Los Angeles are suing over the new ban on black rifles and magazines saying that state law pre-empts the local cities laws. This appears to be a good strategy if legal.
I'm wondering how many states have state-premepmption laws when it comes to guns?
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-84801971/
I'm wondering how many states have state-premepmption laws when it comes to guns?
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-84801971/
Gun rights supporters, county sheriffs sue L.A. over ammunition rules
Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press
A semi-automatic hunting rifle with a high-capacity detachable magazine.
By Emily Alpert Reyes
October 23, 2015, 4:14 p.m.
Gun rights supporters are suing Los Angeles over its ban on possessing firearm magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition, once again taking the battle over municipal gun control to the courts. The new law was modeled on similar, earlier ordinances in San Francisco and Sunnyvale. Federal judges had rejected requests to stop those laws from being enforced -- one reason L.A. leaders said they were confident their new law was on solid ground. More recently, a federal appeals court upheld bans on such ammunition magazines in New York and Connecticut, saying they did not violate the 2nd Amendment, which protects the right to bear arms. At a July rally outside City Hall, Councilman Paul Krekorian declared that if gun rights activists wanted to sue the city, “bring it on.”
Now the California Rifle and Pistol Assn. and other critics are doing exactly that. This time around, however, attorneys said they are challenging the ban on the grounds that it is preempted by California law, not on the basis of the 2nd Amendment as they did in the Sunnyvale and San Francisco cases. The lawsuit, filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, argues that the ban “contributes to a patchwork quilt of laws” that people who travel across the area “must attempt to navigate under threat of criminal penalties.”