Go-it-alone: Financially-challenged City of Cleveland sues over preemption

[Angio333]

Go-it-alone: Financially-challenged City of Cleveland sues over preemption

Today the City of Cleveland filed a declaratory judgment against the State of Ohio to fight the enactment of Ohio Revised Code (RC) section 9.68. Click here to download the press release. (.pdf)

ORC Section 9.68: "(A) The individual right to keep and bear arms, being a fundamental individual right that predates the United States Constitution and Ohio Constitution, and being a constitutionally protected right in every part of Ohio, the general assembly finds the need to provide uniform laws throughout the state regulating the ownership, possession, purchase, other acquisition, transport, storage, carrying, sale, or other transfer of firearms, their components, and their ammunition."
This preemption provision enacted in HB347 allows law abiding gun owners to travel throughout Ohio without concern of violating the previous patchwork of ordinances enacted by various cities. HB347 effectively put the battle back where it belongs, between the city attorneys and the state legislature.

You can read the rest of the article here:
http://buckeyefirearms.org/article3600.html

 

[Deanimator]

Obviously Uncle Frank thinks Cleveland has too much money.

The Cleveland Police Department is no great shakes (they just had a neo-Nazi officer on trial for assault). They're just one overzealous cop away from a second city bankruptcy.

 

[Angio333]

Mayor Jackson is STILL firing city employees who move out of the city despite a new state law and a court ruling that makes residency requirements ILLEGAL.

At least the Cleveland Police Union is coming out against the Mayor on concealed carry/gun issue.

 

[Standing Wolf]

“We challenge every media outlet to do a public records request to Cleveland, requesting copies of all criminal complaints where someone who has used a gun in a crime has been charged with one of these local ordinances.” State Ken Hanson Esq., Legislative Chair for Buckeye Firearms Association. “What the media will find is that these ordinances are not used to punish criminals committing crimes with guns, ever. The claims of ‘for the safety of the children’ is a sham sugar coating attempting to make their anti-gun stance more palatable. Gun control disarms victims, not criminals.

You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried.