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While there’s been a lot of handwringing by anti-gun activists over the Second Amendment Sanctuary movement, which they claim undermines the rule of law, I haven’t noticed any of them complain when anti-gun politicians pass local gun control ordinances in violation of state firearms preemption laws. The latest example of the hypocrisy of the gun control movement comes from Columbia, South Carolina, where Mayor Steve Benjamin signed two local gun ordinances into law in September, despite South Carolina’s firearm preemption law.
The first ordinance bans possession of a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school, and another establishing a local “red flag” law. South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has now fired off a letter to the mayor warning him about the violations of state law.
“In an effort to uphold the rule of law and to ensure the protection of taxpayers, this office strongly urges that these ordinances be repealed,” Wilson wrote Tuesday. “The ordinances not only undermine state law, but undercut the Second Amendment. They are an open invitation to costly litigation for which the municipal taxpayers must pay.”
Wilson bolstered his letter to the mayor with a pair of opinions from his office. State Rep. Jonathon Hill, a Republican from Townville, requested an attorney general’s opinion on Columbia’s extreme risk protection order law, while State Sen. Ronnie Cromer, a Republican from Prosperity, and state Rep. Bill Hixon, a Republican from North Augusta, asked for an opinion on the school zone ordinance.
In both opinions, among other findings, the attorney general’s office says that state law takes precedent in terms of firearm regulation.
“With but a few exceptions, a city or county cannot interject itself into the regulation of firearms,” Wilson writes. “Yet, the City of Columbia has done so repeatedly.”
Rest of the article: https://bearingarms.com/came/2019/1...cd0dec3615540f7a6839e9ac02d820&recip=23060769
The first ordinance bans possession of a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school, and another establishing a local “red flag” law. South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has now fired off a letter to the mayor warning him about the violations of state law.
“In an effort to uphold the rule of law and to ensure the protection of taxpayers, this office strongly urges that these ordinances be repealed,” Wilson wrote Tuesday. “The ordinances not only undermine state law, but undercut the Second Amendment. They are an open invitation to costly litigation for which the municipal taxpayers must pay.”
Wilson bolstered his letter to the mayor with a pair of opinions from his office. State Rep. Jonathon Hill, a Republican from Townville, requested an attorney general’s opinion on Columbia’s extreme risk protection order law, while State Sen. Ronnie Cromer, a Republican from Prosperity, and state Rep. Bill Hixon, a Republican from North Augusta, asked for an opinion on the school zone ordinance.
In both opinions, among other findings, the attorney general’s office says that state law takes precedent in terms of firearm regulation.
“With but a few exceptions, a city or county cannot interject itself into the regulation of firearms,” Wilson writes. “Yet, the City of Columbia has done so repeatedly.”
Rest of the article: https://bearingarms.com/came/2019/1...cd0dec3615540f7a6839e9ac02d820&recip=23060769