Posted: 6/17/2014 6:36:03 PM EDT
Today, Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson announced his ideas to combat gun violence. He wants to ignore state law that prohibits cities from adopting laws that are more strict than those passed by the state legislature. IIRC they tried this already and were smacked down by the Ohio Supreme Court. This dummy wants to try again. Among his brilliant ideas:
"... restricting gun owners from leaving firearms in a place accessible to minors; and limiting gun purchases to one firearm per person per 90 days." (excerpt from the Plain Dealer story)
Too bad Frank, those are prohibited by the Ohio Revised Code:
9.68
Right to bear arms - challenge to law.
(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. Except as specifically provided by the United States Constitution, Ohio Constitution, state law, or federal law, a person, without further license, permission, restriction, delay, or process, may own, possess, purchase, sell, transfer, transport, store, or keep any firearm, part of a firearm, its components, and its ammunition.
Fuck Frank Jackson,
and fuck the Plain Dealer for good measure
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