Posted on 04/09/2008 6:48:56 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
S.F. ban on handguns dealt a final defeat
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
(04-09) 17:19 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The state Supreme Court dealt a final blow Wednesday to San Francisco's voter-approved ban on handguns, rejecting the city's appeal of a lower-court ruling that sharply limited the ability of localities to regulate firearms.
The court's unanimous order was a victory for the National Rifle Association, which sued on behalf of gun owners, advocates and dealers a day after the measure passed with 58 percent of the vote in November 2005. The initiative has never taken effect.
The ordinance, Proposition H, would have forbidden San Francisco residents to possess handguns, exempting only law enforcement officers and others who needed guns for professional purposes. It would have also prohibited the manufacture, sale or distribution of any type of firearms or ammunition in San Francisco.
Lower courts ruled that the measure interfered with a statewide system of gun regulation, which bars certain types of weapons and allows others. The rulings did not address the scope of the constitutional right to bear arms under the Second Amendment, the focus of a pending U.S. Supreme Court case involving a handgun ban in Washington, D.C.
The state courts recognized that "law-abiding citizens are part of the solution, not part of the problem of violent crime," said Chuck Michel, lawyer for the plaintiffs in the NRA suit. "The authority of local cities to over-regulate firearms is very limited."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Good deal BTTT !
It can be almost disorienting when sanity prevails these days.
I’ll drink to that!!!!
Great news!
I wonder if this was intended to also prohibit reloading.
"You can have my reloading press when you pry it from my cold, dead, fingers!"
The way the legislature of that state is, they will probaby just either ban ‘em statewide, or more likely, give SF an exemption to the premeption law.
Never mind me, it’s been one of those days. :(
Thanks to the NRA.
And no thanks to the sorry freepers who constantly whine like little children when the NRA “doesn’t do enough”.
Outstanding. There is a tendency in certain communities (Berkeley, Santa Cruz...) whose leadership is captured by those of a certain political bent to regard them as separate from, and superior to, the Constitutional strictures constraining the rest of us. They’ll blame the NRA, naturally.
On behalf of the armed populace of San Francisco, THANK YOU NRA!!!
The best way to protect the residents of San Francisco against gun violence would be to announce that the County of San Francisco (SF is both a City and a County) would issue concealed carry permits to anyone who could demonstrate that he had paid Federal Income Tax last year. This would leave out most of the hoodlums, but give permits to responsible citizens.
Just watch the crime rate go down.
add a drug test and proof of citizenship too!
Nope. The best news would be that CDFG has sorted out the proposed ban on lead, handgun ammunition (both sale and possession) in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties.
Wow, this in California?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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