A recently-enacted Pennsylvania law has already resulted in 100 threats of legal action against local gun control laws, and forced 22 towns to revoke their laws rather than engage in a legal battle, according to the Guardian’s report. And it’s only been on the books for a week.
Pennsylvania, as a state, has strong gun rights protections, but often individual towns have still chosen to pass restrictions on gun ownership. The new law makes those restrictions more difficult to maintain, by allowing gun owners to challenge gun laws in their municipalities without having to prove they are being harmed.
It also allows outside groups, including the National Rifle Association, to sue on behalf of Pennsylvania residents, and to sue for damages. The NRA is currently going over local ordinances to see if any violate state law.
This appears to be the first law of its kind.
“We get ourselves in trouble in terms of trying to circumvent a state law,” said a councilman from one of the municipalities opting to repeal its gun restrictions.
Not all are backing down: Harrisburg will defend its laws against a challenge, while Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Lancaster are trying to overturn the state law.
Read more at the Guardian.
(h/t The Blaze)
