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WA Appeals Court Unanimously Upholds Preemption in SAF Lawsuit Ammoland Inc. Posted on WA Appeals Court Unanimously Upholds Preemption in SAF Lawsuit, iStock-884168778 U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- A Washington State Appeals Court panel has unanimously held that a so-called “safe storage” ordinance adopted by the City of Edmonds and challenged by the Second Amendment Foundation, National Rifle Association and three private citizens violates the state’s 36-year-old model preemption law. ...

Victory for WA State Preemption in SAF-NRA Challenge of Edmonds Storage Rule Ammoland Inc. Posted on A Washington State appeals court panel ruled unanimously that a so-called “safe storage” mandate in the City of Edmonds is illegal under the state’s 36-year-old preemption statute. It’s a victory for SAF and NRA. HK P30sk Chained Gun Locked Pistol IMG: Dave Workman U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- A three-judge panel for the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division 1 has ruled unanimou...

Appeals court: Edmonds can’t enforce safe storage gun law By Associated Press Share: EDMONDS — The city of Edmonds lost another legal battle this week in its effort to enforce a statute telling residents how to store their guns. A three-judge state appeals panel ruled unanimously that the city ordinance “regardless of its arguable benefits to public safety” is “unambiguously” pre-empted by state law and provisions of Initiative 1639, a gun safety measure passed by vot...

Back in March of last year, Wake County, North Carolina Sheriff Gerald Baker announced that he was closing his office to those applying for a pistol purchase permit because of “a significant increase in PPP applicants and concomitant concerns over social distancing violation by long lines of applicants.” That didn’t sit well with many folks, who were in essence being told that their right to own a handgun for self-defense was being delayed, and a woman named Kelly Stafford, who’s a resi...

MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: February 22, 2021 1748 Mayor Mike Nelson originally proposed the gun storage ordinance in 2018 while he was on the city council. In an opinion issued Monday, the Washington State Court of Appeals ruled against the City of Edmonds and in favor of the plaintiffs in the ongoing series of challenges to Edmonds’ gun storage ordinance. Monday’s ruling built upon previous court decisions that declared the safe storage provisions of the Edmonds ordinance invalid by a...

The Washington Court of Appeals has ruled that a city's gun storage law violates the state's firearm preemption statute.

Federal Court Allows Damage Claims To Proceed In N.C. Permit Case Ammoland Inc. Posted on Federal Court Allows Damage Claims To Proceed In N.C. Permit Case, iStock-884214706 U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- A U.S. District Court Judge in North Carolina has ruled that plaintiffs in a case challenging last year’s “temporary suspension” of accepting and processing pistol purchase permits allegedly due to the COVID-19 outbreak and state of emergency declared by Gov. Roy Cooper, may pursue dama...

By Dave Workman is an award-winning career journalist with an expertise in firearms and the outdoors. Writing at Forbes, journalist Chris Dorsey says there is a looming “showdown” over Second Amendment rights and efforts by the government under Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to push a gun control agenda. With the death of conservative pro-Second Amendment national talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh, other conservative broadcasters will remain to energize grassroots activists. From all i...

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Biden Breaks Silence on Guns, Demands ‘Common Sense Reforms’ Ammoland Inc. Posted on Joe Biden used the anniversary of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., to press for extremist gun control U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Having waited about four weeks from the day he moved into the White House, Democrat Joe Biden used the Valentine’s Day anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla., to demand that Congress “enact commonsense gun law reforms,” ...