Firearm Preemption Laws
Gun control supporters demand that state legislatures impose a wide variety of gun control restrictions within their borders. However, they hypocritically cry foul when legislatures use their power to limit gun control. Frustrated at their inability to convince state legislatures to adopt the restrictive firearm laws they propose, gun control supporters say that local jurisdictions should be able to adopt those restrictions independently.
Aside from gun control supporters’ hypocrisy, there are multiple arguments against local restrictions on basic firearm rights. Historically, some local jurisdictions have imposed clearly unconstitutional restrictions on gun ownership—the District of Columbia’s and Chicago’s since-overturned handgun bans being two recent examples. It also creates confusion when laws vary widely within a state, potentially placing otherwise law-abiding citizens at risk of violating an ordinance of which they were not previously aware, as they travel within their states, and more so when they travel outside their state of residence.
As a result, almost all states today have a law prohibiting local jurisdictions from imposing gun control restrictions that are more severe than state law.
Thursday, September 28, 2017
The Republican-controlled state House passed two new gun measures Wednesday that would stop local governments from adopting ordinances ...
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Visitors to Pittsburgh’s city-owned parks would have to leave their guns at home under a proposal introduced Tuesday.
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The Squirrel Hill Democrat said he was unaware that the city had no ordinance prohibiting firearms in city ...
Thursday, September 14, 2017
The city of Tucson has agreed to pay the Arizona attorney general's office $100,000 to cover the state's ...
Thursday, September 7, 2017
In the end, only one number really mattered when it came to Tucson stopping its policy of destroying ...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
For more than a decade and a half, Los Angeles has banned the sale of “ultracompact” guns, which ...
Friday, August 18, 2017
The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that Tucson does not have the right to ignore state law when ...
Friday, August 11, 2017
The tax, which took effect in 2016, adds $25 to the price of each firearm sold in the ...
Monday, August 7, 2017
It wouldn’t be a legislative session if lawmakers did not enact some measure under the banner of protecting ...
Friday, June 9, 2017
On June 2nd, the Vermont Supreme Court issued its decision in North Country Sportsman's Club v. Town of ...
More Like This From Around The NRA
