Posted on 05/25/2023 3:16:42 PM PDT by John W
INDIANAPOLIS — In what has been termed an “update to the City’s gun violence reduction strategy,” Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett is prepared to challenge the Indiana General Assembly in its next session to curb access to firearms in Marion County.
During an address at the IMPD Academy this afternoon, Hogsett said that an ordinance will be introduced before the City-County Council June 5 that would ban semi-automatic rifles in Marion County, raise the age to purchase a firearm to 21 and rollback the 2022 law banning gun permits.
A city ordinance in of itself would not affect change overnight, however, it would allow local officials to begin enforcing tighter gun restrictions immediately should state lawmakers enact such legislation.
As of last July 1, police across Indiana were rendered mostly powerless to inquire about the legality of the possession of a gun unless officers were investigating a specific crime.
Merchants and business owners in Broad Ripple Village have recently lamented that IMPD is powerless to stop the influx of guns being carried out in the open due to Indiana’s Constitutional Carry law.
IMPD has investigated several shootings in Broad Ripple this year, including one that lead to an officer-involved wounding of a man who fired at officers last winter.
To boost the ranks of IMPD, which is currently 300 officers short of its authorized strength of 1,843, the mayor has announced $10,000 signing bonuses for new officers will now be rolled into $71,000 salaries for first-year patrolmen and women, along with $2,500 retention bonuses for veteran officers on the job as of next January 1.
The city will also hire three new criminal attorneys for assignment the next two years at the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana to work exclusively on the federal prosecution of violent felony defendants from Marion County.
IMPD will step up its investigations of traditionally troubled properties such as apartment buildings, bars and other locations that have been sites of repeated gun violence and the city will cite such property owners for maintaining a common nuisance.
The city will advise groups accessing public property such as parks, plazas and streets that they have the option to declare the site a Gun Free Zone for the duration of their event and IMPD will assist in prohibiting firearms at the location.
The Office of Public Health and Safety will launch the “I Choose Peace” campaign which will seek to encourage businesses and groups to invest in anti-violence programs and declare events as Gun Free Zones this summer.
OPHS will also hold “Summer in the City” programs which will include weeklong classes on barbering, financial literacy, cooking and nutrition and E-gaming with programs aimed at younger children than in previous summers.
IMPD will give away 500 gunlocks in June to encourage gun safety as detectives currently investigate an average of nine accidental shootings every month.
I guess mayor Joe hasn’t been trading up on the Court rulings recently on cities trying to restrict gun sales to 18 yo and higher. The 2nd Amendment is not that complicated.
Oh yeah, at least nine accidental shootings per month. When IMPD confronts the “person of interest” about the dead gang rival with nine bullet holes in him it was always an “accident!”
C’mon, Russ - there is no law in Indiana “banning gun permits” - you know better than that...
Any bets on when the shit head politician sends the cops to sieze the M 1 garands from the American Legion ,the VFW & the DAV to prove how much of a bad ass they are!
I take it Indiana does not have a preemption law.
CC
It was very nice in the 80’s. The 80’s were some of the best years in America. The prime of my life anyway.
I went to that old high school there and my mother moved here from Illinois as a teen and also went to that same old high school.
Remember the guy that was an open carry guy that took down that little wanna be mass shooter at the Greenwood Mall in Indy?
That mall was a no gun zone. If he had not been carrying many more people would have been killed.
Why would store owners want to be at the mercy of criminals?
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again,
expecting different results.
Proof positive the liberal jackasses are insane.
Oh yeah, that’ll stop it. Make some more laws.
“Why would store owners want to be at the mercy of criminals?”
To make the people demand more “protection” from the police so they can enact more rights-stealing laws.
I live in Indiana and get the Indy TV news. Every night there’s at least one, usually more stories of a shooting. Most include at least one fatality. So far the TV stations include pictures of the suspects and/or arrestees. 99.9% of the time they are blacks. Indy has a population of about 1 million. On a per capata basis the murder rate is nearly as high a Chicago’s.
I’m surprised they still show pics of the perps.
A buddy sent me this.
It’s impossible. He doesn’t have that power due to the state’s preemption laws. It’s nothing more than pandering for votes.
IC 35-47-11.1-2 Political subdivision regulation of firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories prohibited Sec. 2. Except as provided in section 4 of this chapter, a political subdivision may not regulate: (1) firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories; (2) the ownership, possession, carrying, transportation, registration, transfer, and storage of firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories; and (3) commerce in and taxation of firearms, firearm ammunition, and firearm accessories. As added by P.L.152-2011, SEC.4.
IC 35-47-11.1-5 Civil actions concerning political subdivision violations Sec. 5. A person adversely affected by an ordinance, a measure, an enactment, a rule, or a policy adopted or enforced by a political subdivision that violates this chapter may file an action in a court with competent jurisdiction against the political subdivision for: (1) declarative and injunctive relief; and (2) actual and consequential damages attributable to the Indiana Code 2016 violation. As added by P.L.152-2011, SEC.4.
The State of Indiana could abolish Indianapolis’ city government, and disband its police force, if it so chose. Cities and counties in the USA, along with their governments, exist at the several states’ pleasure.
Exactamente.
bkmk
Many Chicago gangs have relocated members to Indianapolis or expanded their gang presence TO Indianapolis.
Want to know why gun crime is way up in Indianapolis? Now you know.
It does.
not necessarily. Ga has such a law, but it was only enacted about 30 years ago. All of the Democrat sh!thole cities screamed when their tyrannical gun restrictions were rendered null and void. Music to my ears.
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