San Francisco Housing Authority settles gun lawsuit

SF Gate ^ | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 | Bob Egelko

[GSP.FAN]

The San Francisco Housing Authority has agreed to allow its residents to own guns in a settlement of a National Rifle Association lawsuit that followed last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the right to bear arms.

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In papers filed Monday with a federal judge, the Housing Authority agreed not to enforce a provision it added to tenant leases in 2005 prohibiting the possession of guns and ammunition. The ban will now apply only to illegal gun ownership, like possession of a machine gun or possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Good for Wayne and the boys at NRA

[o_zarkman44]

Right on! One battle won. Tuning up for the real war.

[EagleUSA]

The Communist Community of San Freakcisco sucks it again.

Excellent.

[CurlyDave]

Tim Larsen, a lawyer for the Housing Authority, said Tuesday that the agency never intended to enforce its 2005 ban against law-abiding gun owners and has never done so, even though the lease provision covered legal as well as illegal weapons.

Sure Tim, I believe you.

Oh, and by the way I wanna make a down payment on that bridge you have for sale.

[GSP.FAN]

The ban will now apply only to illegal gun ownership, like possession of a machine gun or possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

I hear the gang bangers,muggers,criminals and armed robbers
are all turning in guns..

Thank you Tim SF is so much safer now.
Sarcasm off...

[RandyGH]

And thanks to the California Rifle and Pistol Association. Just remember: if you drop your gun in SF, don’t bend over to pick it up.

[phoenix0468]

The ban will now apply only to illegal gun ownership, like possession of a machine gun or possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Aren't there already laws preventing felons from owning guns in California? And as far as owning a "machine gun" I thought the Brady bill expired in 2007.

[GSP.FAN]

It's called SF doublespeak the are saying one thing but mean something else.

Basically nobody in SF should own a gun..