Tennessee judge allows gun control questions to go on Memphis ballot

[Tommy Tainant]

Tennessee judge allows gun control questions to go on Memphis ballot

City council approves proposals, risking ire of Republicans threatening to withhold millions in state funding

www.theguardian.com

Earlier this year, the Memphis city council approved a proposal to ask whether voters wanted to tweak the city charter to require permits to carry a handgun, ban the possession of AR-15 style rifles and implement a so-called red flag ordinance, which allows law enforcement officials to remove firearms from those found to be an imminent danger to themselves or others.

These measuures seem quite tame but once again the Guns Over People party is threatening people who want a safer city.

I mean one of the measures proposes taking guns from crazies. Something that everyone agrees with the day after a shooting.

This is the problem that progressives have in civilising the US.

Good luck Memphis.

 

[Anathema]

Won’t make a difference. SCOTUS will shoot it down (haha) if it passes. Likewise the gun control bill that passed in Massachusetts in July. I’m not concerned because SCOTUS will rip it apart.

 

[rampart]

Tennessee judge allows gun control questions to go on Memphis ballot

City council approves proposals, risking ire of Republicans threatening to withhold millions in state funding

www.theguardian.com

Earlier this year, the Memphis city council approved a proposal to ask whether voters wanted to tweak the city charter to require permits to carry a handgun, ban the possession of AR-15 style rifles and implement a so-called red flag ordinance, which allows law enforcement officials to remove firearms from those found to be an imminent danger to themselves or others.

These measuures seem quite tame but once again the Guns Over People party is threatening people who want a safer city.

I mean one of the measures proposes taking guns from crazies. Something that everyone agrees with the day after a shooting.

This is the problem that progressives have in civilising the US.

Good luck Memphis.

i memphis they may vote for it, and peop0le with any kind of sense might agree that the rules for a city should probably be different from a target range o9r a duck blinnd.

which reminds me, didn't dicki cheney shoot someone in a duck blind and "did not lose a vote.""

repub pols are not accountable to their cults.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Won’t make a difference. SCOTUS will shoot it down (haha) if it passes. Likewise the gun control bill that passed in Massachusetts in July. I’m not concerned because SCOTUS will rip it apart.

I guessed that you would favour nutters carryung guns.

 

[Polishprince]

Even if the referendum were to pass, it would violate Tennessee law and could never take effect, Tommy.

It isn't the role of municipal governments in that state to set their own gun laws.

 

[Anathema]

I guessed that you would favour nutters carryung guns.

I’m one of those nutters who carries a gun. One of the reasons who you never have to worry about seeing me in your homeland… I don’t go places where I can’t carry a gun.

 

[martybegan]

Even if the referendum were to pass, it would violate Tennessee law and could never take effect, Tommy.

It isn't the role of municipal governments in that state to set their own gun laws.

That comes from the home rule provisions of the State's Constitution and laws, something Tommy has no experience with, because in GB all powers flow from Parliament.

 

[theHawk]

Tennessee judge allows gun control questions to go on Memphis ballot

City council approves proposals, risking ire of Republicans threatening to withhold millions in state funding

www.theguardian.com

Earlier this year, the Memphis city council approved a proposal to ask whether voters wanted to tweak the city charter to require permits to carry a handgun, ban the possession of AR-15 style rifles and implement a so-called red flag ordinance, which allows law enforcement officials to remove firearms from those found to be an imminent danger to themselves or others.

These measuures seem quite tame but once again the Guns Over People party is threatening people who want a safer city.

I mean one of the measures proposes taking guns from crazies. Something that everyone agrees with the day after a shooting.

This is the problem that progressives have in civilising the US.

Good luck Memphis.

Memphis is a crime ridden shit hole because of the people in it, not the guns.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Tennessee judge allows gun control questions to go on Memphis ballot

City council approves proposals, risking ire of Republicans threatening to withhold millions in state funding

www.theguardian.com

Earlier this year, the Memphis city council approved a proposal to ask whether voters wanted to tweak the city charter to require permits to carry a handgun, ban the possession of AR-15 style rifles and implement a so-called red flag ordinance, which allows law enforcement officials to remove firearms from those found to be an imminent danger to themselves or others.

These measuures seem quite tame but once again the Guns Over People party is threatening people who want a safer city.

I mean one of the measures proposes taking guns from crazies. Something that everyone agrees with the day after a shooting.

This is the problem that progressives have in civilising the US.

Good luck Memphis.

...shall not be infringed

SCOTUS already ruled on this

 

[Mac-7]

Tennessee judge allows gun control questions to go on Memphis ballot

City council approves proposals, risking ire of Republicans threatening to withhold millions in state funding

www.theguardian.com

Earlier this year, the Memphis city council approved a proposal to ask whether voters wanted to tweak the city charter to require permits to carry a handgun, ban the possession of AR-15 style rifles and implement a so-called red flag ordinance, which allows law enforcement officials to remove firearms from those found to be an imminent danger to themselves or others.

These measuures seem quite tame but once again the Guns Over People party is threatening people who want a safer city.

I mean one of the measures proposes taking guns from crazies. Something that everyone agrees with the day after a shooting.

This is the problem that progressives have in civilising the US.

Good luck Memphis.

Mind your own business Tommy

 

[martybegan]

...shall not be infringed

SCOTUS already ruled on this

The Local court erred in not following Tennessee's own home rule laws. This isn't even a 2nd amendment issue, it's a State law/constitution issue.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I guessed that you would favour nutters carryung guns.

^ Nutters with guns that worry We the People

 

[Tommy Tainant]

...shall not be infringed

SCOTUS already ruled on this

What happened to those militia things ?

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

I guessed that you would favour nutters carryung guns.

For a gun free country, sure has its own problems

Firearms in the UK: A Stable Threat?

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www.rusi.org

 

[M14 Shooter]

Even if the referendum were to pass, it would violate Tennessee law and could never take effect, Tommy.

Ahhh. TN pre-emption. Nice.
Sorry, Memphis:

• (a) Except as otherwise provided by state law or as specifically provided in subsection (b), the general assembly preempts the whole field of the regulation of firearms, ammunition, or components of firearms or ammunition, or combinations thereof including, but not limited to, the use, purchase, transfer, taxation, manufacture, ownership, possession, carrying, sale, acquisition, gift, devise, licensing, registration, storage, and transportation thereof, to the exclusion of all county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government law, ordinances, resolutions, enactments or regulation. No county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government nor any local agency, department, or official shall occupy any part of the field regulation of firearms, ammunition or components of firearms or ammunition, or combinations thereof.
• (b)A city, county, town, municipality or metropolitan government is expressly authorized to regulate by ordinance, resolution, policy, rule or other enactment the following:
  • (1) The carrying of firearms by employees or independent contractors of the city, county, town municipality or metropolitan government when acting in the course and scope of their employment or contract, except as otherwise provided in § 39-17-1313;
  • (2) The discharge of firearms within the boundaries of the applicable city, county, town, municipality or metropolitan government, except when and where the discharge of a firearm is expressly authorized or permitted by state law;
  • (3) The location of a sport shooting range, except as otherwise provided in §§ 39-17-316 and 13-3-412. To the extent that a city, county, town, municipality, or metropolitan government has or enforces any regulation of privately owned or operated sport shooting ranges, the city, county, town, municipality, or metropolitan government shall not impose greater restrictions or requirements on privately owned or operated ranges than are applicable to any range located within the same unit of local government and owned or operated by a government entity. A party may challenge any regulation of a sport shooting range that violates this subdivision (b)(3) in the manner described in subsection (g); and
  • (4) The enforcement of any state or federal law pertaining to firearms, ammunition, or components of firearms or ammunition, or combinations thereof, except as prohibited by § 38-3-115.

 

[Anathema]

What happened to those militia things ?

The militia has been defined by SCOTUS as the entire adult population of the country. This is separate from the national guard.

 

[martybegan]

Ahhh. TN pre-emption. Nice.
Sorry, Memphis:

• (a) Except as otherwise provided by state law or as specifically provided in subsection (b), the general assembly preempts the whole field of the regulation of firearms, ammunition, or components of firearms or ammunition, or combinations thereof including, but not limited to, the use, purchase, transfer, taxation, manufacture, ownership, possession, carrying, sale, acquisition, gift, devise, licensing, registration, storage, and transportation thereof, to the exclusion of all county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government law, ordinances, resolutions, enactments or regulation. No county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government nor any local agency, department, or official shall occupy any part of the field regulation of firearms, ammunition or components of firearms or ammunition, or combinations thereof.
• (b)A city, county, town, municipality or metropolitan government is expressly authorized to regulate by ordinance, resolution, policy, rule or other enactment the following:
  • (1) The carrying of firearms by employees or independent contractors of the city, county, town municipality or metropolitan government when acting in the course and scope of their employment or contract, except as otherwise provided in § 39-17-1313;
  • (2) The discharge of firearms within the boundaries of the applicable city, county, town, municipality or metropolitan government, except when and where the discharge of a firearm is expressly authorized or permitted by state law;
  • (3) The location of a sport shooting range, except as otherwise provided in §§ 39-17-316 and 13-3-412. To the extent that a city, county, town, municipality, or metropolitan government has or enforces any regulation of privately owned or operated sport shooting ranges, the city, county, town, municipality, or metropolitan government shall not impose greater restrictions or requirements on privately owned or operated ranges than are applicable to any range located within the same unit of local government and owned or operated by a government entity. A party may challenge any regulation of a sport shooting range that violates this subdivision (b)(3) in the manner described in subsection (g); and
  • (4) The enforcement of any state or federal law pertaining to firearms, ammunition, or components of firearms or ammunition, or combinations thereof, except as prohibited by § 38-3-115.

How can a judge allow a referendum to happen they know already violates State law?

 

[martybegan]

The militia has been defined by SCOTUS as the entire adult population of the country. This is separate from the national guard.

Plus, the STATES have the right to a militia, the PEOPLE have the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Commas mean things.

 

[M14 Shooter]

How can a judge allow a referendum to happen they know already violates State law?

Liberals don't care about the law.

 

[Vastator]

Tennessee judge allows gun control questions to go on Memphis ballot

City council approves proposals, risking ire of Republicans threatening to withhold millions in state funding

www.theguardian.com

Earlier this year, the Memphis city council approved a proposal to ask whether voters wanted to tweak the city charter to require permits to carry a handgun, ban the possession of AR-15 style rifles and implement a so-called red flag ordinance, which allows law enforcement officials to remove firearms from those found to be an imminent danger to themselves or others.

These measuures seem quite tame but once again the Guns Over People party is threatening people who want a safer city.

I mean one of the measures proposes taking guns from crazies. Something that everyone agrees with the day after a shooting.

This is the problem that progressives have in civilising the US.

Good luck Memphis.

Focus on civilizing the streets of England. You've plenty of work there with the marauging savages plaguing your own cities.