A Philadelphia ordinance that requires gun owners to tell police when a firearm has been lost or stolen was ruled illegal Monday by a state court, with one of the judges who voted to throw out the law lamenting that their ruling would put people’s lives at risk.and issued a permanent injunction, saying the state Uniform Firearms Act preempts it. Philadelphia Police had sought a $2,000 fine against a man charged with violating the lost-and-stolen reporting mandate.
The judges cited a 1996 state Supreme Court decision that said assault weapons restrictions in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were not allowed because the Uniform Firearms Act put authority to regulate firearms in the hands of the state Legislature. "The overwhelming blight of gun violence occurring in the City of Philadelphia, of which I believe we can take judicial notice, and the policy issues argued by the city in the case before us, call for a recognition that local conditions may well justify more severe restrictions than are necessary statewide," Leadbetter wrote.
"It is neither just to impose unnecessarily harsh limits in communities where they are not required nor consistent with simple humanity to deny basic safety regulations to citizens who desperately need them," Leadbetter wrote. She and both of the other judges who heard the appeal, Patricia McCullough and Anne Covey, were elected as Republicans.
Well, if their gun is evidence at a crime scene, they are responsible, simple. Maybe the thought of prison will keep people from giving em away, selling em, not reporting a theft of one!
If they don't report, they are obviously up to no good. They don't have the right to give away guns, or not report missing guns. This contributes to them being available to the bad guys. They get em anyway when involved in cartels etc, but let's not help em get them.
Seriously? This should be reported, people should be allowed to own guns, I am for that believe me, but w that comes responsibility!
Liberal logic
Somebody make this make this make since
Trying to understand why that's a bad thing
What
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