The Los Angeles City Council has voted unanimously to require gun owners to store their firearms in locked containers. Under the ordinance, handguns will need to be disabled and kept on the owner's person or within close enough proximity that it is in the owner's control. [More]That's confusing-- I need to see the actual ruling. If it's not clumsy reporting (should it be "disabled OR kept"?), that would seem to run afoul of Heller, in which the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional to require all firearms be "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock." SCOTUS nonetheless did not "suggest the invalidity of laws regulating the storage of firearms to prevent accidents."
I'm sure we'll all learn more in the coming hours.
Regardless, I'd like to see them try to enforce this door-to-door, and even have some neighborhoods I suggest they start in.
[Via Joshua S]
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Litigation, not legislation, is the only option with these control freaks.
No, not the only option.
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