Posted on 01/10/2008 7:13:23 AM PST by epow
Fairfax, VA – The California State Court of Appeals announced today their decision to overturn one of the most restrictive gun bans in the country, following a legal battle by attorneys for the National Rifle Association (NRA) and a previous court order against the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
“Today’s decision by the California State Court of Appeals is a big win for the law-abiding citizens and NRA Members of San Francisco,” declared Chris W. Cox, NRA’s chief lobbyist.
In 2005, NRA sought an injunction against the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to prevent them from enacting one of the nation’s most restrictive gun bans. NRA won the injunction, but the City’s mayor and Board of Supervisors ignored the court order and approved a set of penalties, including a $1,000 fine and a jail term of between 90 days and six months, for city residents who own firearms for lawful purposes in their own homes.
“We promised our California NRA members in 2005 that we would fight any gun ban instituted by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and we haven’t given up that fight,” continued Cox. “Today we see our second win for the Second Amendment against the San Francisco gun ban. We beat them once in court and the City’s attorney appealed based on his personal disagreement with the court’s first decision to overturn the ban. Now we’ve beaten them again. The California State Court of Appeals has upheld the state preemption law.”
Today’s decision came in the form of a 3-0 opinion in favor of the lower court ruling overturning the gun ban.
“This decision is a thoughtful and well-reasoned legal opinion,” concluded Cox. “I'd like to thank our approximately 4 million members, including the hundreds of thousands of members in California, for their continued commitment to protecting our cherished freedoms.”
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See THIS if you want to see how completely some of the usually pro-gun Senators were duped by Schumer and his pals.
The NRA may have won, but what's to stop Than Franthisco from simply ignoring the court this time too?
Let's see what happens when they try to impose their rules on a law-abiding citizen. Hopefully it'll be a minority single mother protecting her family from a "trans-gendered" home invader. Talk about a liberal dilemma!
The NRA is not useless, they are very good a promoting firearm sports and teaching gun safety and things like that, but when it comes to politics and protecting gun rights, they wrong as often as they are right... I.O.W., support the NRA for it’s good points, but give most of your money to GOA!!
BTW, I posted this article without searching for a prior posting of the same article. I have apologized for my negligence on the other thread and asked the moderator to withdraw this thread.
For further comments on the article please ignore this thread and go HERE.
You must be spanked.
HA HA!
You can take my gun out of my cold dead fingers.
See # 6. I apologized over there for not checking for a prior thread on the same article, and I have asked the mods to delete this one.
no problem
Agreed, and I’ll take care of administering that punishment to myself if I can find my rubber foam padded ping-pong paddle. (try repeating that fast 5 times)
Hey Nully, someone’s talking about you....
Sorry San Francisco, but you can’t burn the parts of the Constitution you don’t like.
Please do not talk about spanking in a thread about San Francisco.
Nothing will stop this bogus US City until the California Justice Department investigates the actions of this Board and Mayor and bring charges that they have violated the oath of office and the State law.
“Maybe the NRA isn’t completely useless after all.”
That was my first thought on this as well...
“San Francisco Gun ban ruled null and void.”
They are mad at you in SF.
*sigh* It's hell being popular...
They are mad at you in SF.
It's mutual.
Don’t get carried away. It’s not clear how much the NRA really had to do with this (this report, after all, is from their own site). The California State Court of Appeals was likely to uphold the state’s per-emption law with or without the NRA encouraging it to do so — the decision was unanimous, and was affirming a lower court ruling, and pre-emption laws on various matters have been routinely upheld all over the country. San Francisco remains under the same oppressive gun laws as the rest of California.
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