ALEC/NRA Bill Introduced to Stop Cities from Banning Machine Guns

[Robb]

Courtesy our ever-attentive friends at Truth-Out:

A Nevada politician has introduced a bill that would bar the city of Las Vegas from enacting tougher gun laws than the state as a whole, including language that would specifically protect "machine guns" from being barred on the Las Vegas strip if the state did not bar machine guns across the state.

At the last known meeting of the "Public Safety and Elections Task Force" of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a lobbyist for the National Rifle Association proposed amendments to the ALEC "Consistency in Firearms Regulation Act" to add "machine guns" to ALEC's model bill prohibiting local governments from adopting different rules for guns and ammo than a state has as a whole. On March 18, a Nevada state legislator introduced a bill in the statehouse that is almost a word-for-word copy from that ALEC bill, which ALEC has since attempted to distance itself from while doing nothing to stop or repeal such bills.

Nevada Assembly Bill 340 is nearly identical to a version of the ALEC Consistency in Firearms Regulation Act, which was most recently ratified by the ALEC gun task force in late 2011.

Read More: http://truth-out.org/news/item/15310-machine-guns-on-the-vegas-strip-in-nevada-alec-nra-bill-introduced-to-stop-cities-from-banning-machine-guns

[bowens43]

1. f*cking gun nuts. What the hell is wrong with these psychopaths?

[AndyA]

2. Where does it end?

Grenades? Nuclear bombs? Phasers like they had in Star Trek that can just eliminate people completely with no trace?

This is ridiculous. For what reason could a private citizen possibly need a machine gun?

This is a mental illness, the belief that you must have access to every weapon known to mankind, and that you are entitled to them by the Second Amendment. Get help, people, you need it.

[hack89]

3. Shooting machine guns is a huge tourist draw in Las Vegas

there are a surprising number of places where you can do it.

[premium]

4. Nevada has a state pre-emption law.

Only the state legislature can enact stricter laws, this bars cities/towns/counties from setting their own firearms laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Nevada

Open carry

Nevada is a traditional open carry state with seemingly complete state preemption of firearms laws. However, several localities have passed and are enforcing "Deadly Weapons" laws which conflict with the preemption laws, and whose legality is therefore at issue. Were this not the case, Nevada would qualify as a "Gold Star" open carry state. Effective Oct 1, 2007 is legislation that prohibits counties/cities/towns from enacting ordinances more restrictive than state law – the legislature reserves for itself the right to legislate firearms law. This law is retroactive.[citation needed] Hence the more restrictive ordinances in North Las Vegas and Boulder City are null and void.

[frazzled]

5. They must want to walk around with very old machine guns

Because the sale and manufacture of new machine guns was banned 27 years ago, in 1986.

I hope it feeds their fantasies to think they can walk into a casino with a machine gun. Because you know, we have the right to do that. (Just don't do it naked, because you'll get arrested for indecent exposure.)