This happened in Tennessee?
Rhode Island, Connecticut, or California, maybe, but Tennessee?
Patently illegal. They can ban shooting but not ownership. Ignore.
I’d say it’s time to host some NRA and local Tea Party meetings there...
My high rise in Arlington, VA had the same type of restrictions. As a permit holder I ignored that crap. I challenged it and was told I would sue them silly if they ever tried to enforce it.
I get a letter like that from my HOA, I’ll shit-can it. If they want my private property, then by all means they can come and take it.
They just better be prepared for what meets them.
MOLON LABE
A Home Owners Association can only enforce the agreement an owner signed when they bought the property. The HOA cannot add any new rules. If the “no guns” rule was in the deed, the second amendment does not apply, because the owner agreed to that provision as a condition of purchasing the property. If it’s not in the deed the HOA can go pound sand.
Every state has laws governing HOAs that limit what HOAs can do, and usually say that any illegal restriction is void.
That is undoubtedly the case here.
And if a no-gun restriction is legal, then I have no pity for the morons that willing bought with such a restriction. It’s implausible that such a restriction could be newly enacted.
But I do have reservations, since we're dealing with "evil" guns here.
Check the covenants. The HOA may have passed this rule on their own, and how are they going to enforce it? Sounds like a slate of HOA officers who have become too big for their britches. Most states limit HOAs in what they can do, esp. if their rules go against state/county/municipal law. I’d keep my gun, if I lived there, and dare them to do anything about it. Are they going to get SWAT teams in and search everybody’s house and car? I don’t think so.Not only that, but a big sign “this development is gun-free” wd get some attention from thugs in the area. Not good. Must be a rumor, only a rumor.
Anyone can say “anything” and write “anything” but enforcing it is another matter. For the residents there, just make it known that you have guns on your property (and let it be known loudly and widely, especially for management) - and then “just sit back”.
Let the property management try and enforce it! If they attempt some legal maneuver, you can bet that the Second Amendment will trump that. They’ll just have to be slapped down by the Second Amendment, in a court of law, in order to teach them the lesson.
All who abide by this letter are requiroed to post a sign stating;
Isn’t that Al Gores state? Probably afraid the powder smoke will cause global warming.
Some HOA nitwits wet dreams do not trump the Constitution.
FU HOA Come and take them.
Looking at the comments, not many read the article:
“they plan on changing the rule soon to allow firearms on the property.”
We have a voluntary neighborhood association that collects enough *voluntary* dues to maintain three major and two minor entrances, print a nice neighborhood directory, maintain a small forum web site for announcements and discussions, and organize misc. events. It’s pretty perfect. Lots of volunteer effort. I’ve been helping deal with some issues with the lighting at the entrances, for instance.
If one lives in a HOA neighborhood- go to the meetings and get elected to the governing board! Not doing so always results with people who are stupid running it & situations which are silly.
Simple solution. A few of the neighbors get together and find an attorney that is willing to file a class action suit. Suck the attorney into taking the case by giving him all the proceeds except what amounts to the added HOA dues for the members of the class action. Make the suit cause the HOA liability to increase and the insurance company will make the HOA settle.