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Montana Supreme Court Strikes Down Missoula Gun Control Scheme
Ammoland ^ | 25 October, 2019 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 10/27/2019 5:42:44 AM PDT by marktwain

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U.S.A.-(Ammoland.com)- Montana has a strong preemption law to protect the right to keep and bear arms and to maintain uniform firearms laws across the state. It is straightforward and easy to understand. From mt.gov:

45-8-351. Restriction on local government regulation of firearms. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a county, city, town, consolidated local government, or other local government unit may not prohibit, register, tax, license, or regulate the purchase, sale or other transfer (including delay in purchase, sale, or other transfer), ownership, possession, transportation, use, or unconcealed carrying of any weapon, including a rifle, shotgun, handgun, or concealed handgun.

There are two exceptions to the law:

(2) (a) For public safety purposes, a city or town may regulate the discharge of rifles, shotguns, and handguns. A county, city, town, consolidated local government, or other local government unit has power to prevent and suppress the carrying of concealed or unconcealed weapons to a public assembly, publicly owned building, park under its jurisdiction, or school, and the possession of firearms by convicted felons, adjudicated mental incompetents, illegal aliens, and minors.

Missoula is home to the University of Montana. It represents the far-left politics in the state.  In Missoula, in 2018, the Democrat candidate for Senate received 41,688 votes. The Republican candidate received 18,631 votes, about 31%. Statewide, the Republican candidate received 46%.

In 2016, the City of Missoula passed an ordinance to require private sales of firearms to be approved by the government.

(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; mt; supremecourt
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To: RetiredArmy
That is why I live in the MOST CONSERVATIVE state in this Republic, the state of Alabama!!...Come on down. Live free.

Sure, sounds like heavenly Bliss

21 posted on 10/28/2019 5:07:49 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Big Red Badger

Last poll I saw said so. Of course we have to rid ourselves of that rat stain Jones the kiss-ass dimwit senator we got stuck with because the stupid republican RINOs ran their smear campaign against Judge Moore. I was not happy with Moore, but hell not at the expense of getting our first Dimscum senator in decades. We have got to find someone to run against him to get his ass out of office. I sure hope so.


22 posted on 10/28/2019 7:52:37 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Bible lays out the last days of history. Things are all coming together as predicted.)
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To: Fightin Whitey

Alabama,
Arizona——
It ain’t California
So it’s Possible!


23 posted on 10/28/2019 11:11:12 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Redcitizen

She left SF to be closer to her children and grandchildren.


24 posted on 10/29/2019 6:09:34 AM PDT by barbarianbabs
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To: barbarianbabs

Obviously her children and grandchildren are far more intelligent than she is.


25 posted on 11/03/2019 4:20:57 PM PST by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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