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Seattle parks gun ban is illegal, Appeals Court rules
November 8, 2011Printer Friendly | Email |
(GunReports.com) -- The state Court of Appeals recently affirmed that Seattle's gun ban in parks is illegal, more than a year after a King County judge sided with gun-rights advocates and the city appealed.
In 2008, then-Mayor Greg Nickels enacted a rule that banned guns and "dangerous weapons" from city parks, community centers and other city properties. In 2009, the city added another rule that banned guns from parks where kids are "likely to be present."
These rules prompted a lawsuit by a group of gun-rights advocates who had concealed weapons permits. In February of last year, King County Superior Court Judge Catherine Shaffer ruled that state law prohibits cities from enacting laws that regulate the possession of guns.
The city then appealed. In affirming the trial court's decision, a three-judge Court of Appeals panel wrote: "Except as expressly authorized by the legislature, municipalities are prohibited from regulating the possession of firearms at city-owned park facilities open to the public."
Read more at www.SeattlePi.com.
Whoo-hoo! Another precedent at state level set for control of renegade localities that want to ursurp our rights! If anti-gun dunderheads want to live where guns are illegal - let them move to England. They won't even have to learn a new language. It never ceases to amaze me that there are people out there who pose as rational, logical human beings who then create killing fields in which the criminals can ply their trade. Every state of the nation should enact preemption laws that prohibit local and municipal governments from enacting any laws or ordinances that infringe on Second Amendment rights. An Important Note for GunReports.Com Readers: Our goal on this website is to foster a free expression of views while reining in language that crosses the line of civil discourse. Accordingly, the comments areas are intended to expand the knowledge of all users of this site. But site administrators wish to discourage the use of profanity, insults, disrespect, the advocacy of lawlessness, violence or sedition, or attempts to impinge on the rights of others. While GunReports.Com encourages robust discourse that furthers our understanding of all the issues affecting gun owners, comments that break GunReports.Com’s rules will be removed. In addition, we reserve the right to edit or delete individual comments, and in extreme cases, to ban commenters at our discretion. --Tim Cole To post a comment you must be a registered user of gunreports.com and be logged in. Use one of the forms below to login or register for FREE to gunreports.com
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