Local gun laws null and void after state revision.

[powderman]

http://www.whas11.com/news/Local-gun-ordinances-null-and-void-after-state-revision-188510981.html
 
Local gun ordinances null and void after state revision        by Brittany Gonzalez  WHAS11.com Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:47 PM
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – Louisville’s efforts to ban weapons at public places such as parks, zoos, and libraries became null and void when new legislation says firearms can only be regulated at the state level.

The resolution went into effect in July 2012, but city officials had 6 months to try and appeal the change and now that deadline has passed.  At the last Louisville City Council meeting an ordinance had to be sponsored to change all current city ordinances that ban firearms in city owned facilities.

“The state mandated that we drop out of all our ordinances and policies [any] idea that we are trying to regulate handguns,” Councilwoman Madonna Flood said.

Flood said she feels as if this decision was forced on city leaders all across the state.

“The whole idea flies in the face of common sense…the idea that you should be able to carry a gun to work just simply because you are a city employee that makes no sense at all. Why do you need a gun in a library? Why do you need a gun at the zoo?  And why do you need to carry a gun at work,” Flood said.

Thomas Packer, a college student, said he doesn’t feel safer knowing firearms can be carried into places like the library.

“I want to go to the library to read and get knowledge, but if people are packing guns it doesn’t seem very safe to me.”

CEO of Openrange Indoor Paintball & Gun Range, Barry Laws, believes the new clarification will help people understand basic gun owner rights.

“It's like you probably have car insurance. You probably have health insurance. This is my personal protection insurance, and I just think the clarification makes everybody feel more comfortable,” Laws said.

Councilwoman Flood tells WHAS11 Metro Council is looking at what possible legal action can be taken against the resolution since city leaders do not have a choice when it come to enforcing this new change.       

 

[rickt300]

Why would anyone feel safer unarmed?

[BUGEYE]

Your State constitution worked as intended.

[powderman]

News last night was full of the doomsdayers wailing about the OK corral and blood in the street. Uhhhhhh, liberal democrats?? POWDERMAN. 

[bulletstuffer]

They were squealing like stick pigs here in MN too when they passed conceal and carry.  Nothing they said came true!!!  It is amazing how the left can be wrong almost 100% of the time

Bulletstuffer

[powderman]

They were squealing like stick pigs here in MN too when they passed conceal and carry.  Nothing they said came true!!!  It is amazing how the left can be wrong almost 100% of the time

Bulletstuffer

 
YEP. Here too, the libbys were frantic about GUNS ON THE STREET. I've read that violent crime actually drops everywhere CCW is approved. POWDERMAN. 

[gypsyman]

Here in Ohio, it is called a pre-emption law.(probably everwhere else too) We had the big cities, Cleveland,Columbus,Cinci/Dayton and Toledo pass so called assault weapons/saturday night special laws. You were legal in 81 or 82 counties, and breaking the law in a couple others. When they finally passed a ccw law, they included a pre-emption clause. Just for that reason. Funny thing is, it also applied to other areas. Some cities had lights on for motorcycles, a couple little small townships had helmet laws. This did away with them too. gypsyman

[BAGTIC]

Pre-emption laws make sense for the sake of uniformity. Under the Constitution there are only two levels of government, Federal and State. Municipalities don't exist, they are merely administrative subdivisions of the State. When every community starts making its own rulings the tail has begun wagging the dog.