NRA faces two crucial tests this week (Los Angeles and Redondo Beach)

[shadowrider]

The City Council of Los Angeles is in the process of enacting an ordinance which would make it a crime to openly carry a handgun within the city limits of Los Angeles.

On Friday January 28th the L.A. City Council unanimously passed a motion "...requesting the Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA) and City Attorney to report to Council to share their legal understandings concerning current federal, state and local parameters concerning gun issues. Recommendations for Council action..."

In the same motion, the city council unashamedly asked "...the local community organizations aimed at stemming gun violence, including Women Against Gun Violence and Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, be invited to attend any such presentation and discussion, and to share their information, insight, advice and ideas."

In short, if you are an opponent of the ban on Open Carry you are not invited.

--snip--

This is just the latest test for the National Rifle Association. Thus far, the NRA has ignored the City of Redonod Beach ban on openly carrying firearms at their Pier Shopping Center and Galleria Mall. Redonod Beach does not even have an ordinance making Open Carry illegal. The City Attorney for Redonod Beach, Mike Webb, merely delcared that the Pier Shopping Center is a park and therefore firearms are prohibited. He has also said that his City does not have to obey California State Law.

His police deparment has gone one step further, stating that they do not have to obey Federal law as well. Redondo Beach police officer Sgt Grimm has threatened to arrest persons lawfully carrying firearms at the Galleria Mall for criminal trespass, something the California Supreme Court prohibited in 1970.

http://www.examiner.com/la-in-los-angeles/nra-faces-two-crucial-tests-this-week

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[Katya Mullethov]

2. I can

Damned magnificent too .

[PavePusher]

6. Oh, did you have something relevant to bring to the discuss...

SQUIRREL!

[shadowrider]

3. The open carry crowd is apparently not invited because the anti's thought they'd filibuster the

conversation?

[Euromutt]

4. Haven't they learned from San Francisco's example?

Even in California, restrictions on privately owned firearms are unsustainable if they violate the state's pre-emption statute. Honestly, there need to be some kind of personal sanctions imposed on members of local government who willfully impose ordinances that they know in advance are going to be thrown out as illegal under state law.

[shadowrider]

5. Agreed, but it's awfully easy spending taxpayer money to defend this stuff

even if it's going to be overturned.

[DonP]

7. IIRC San Francisco paid the NRA $360,000 in legal fees

Making them one of the biggest NRA contributors for 2008 or 2009. (Wonder if the Board of Supervisors all got the free hat or just the idiots who voted for the ordinance?)

I guess Redondo Breach and LA feel like making a contribution.

The SFO case was their ban on handguns in the city and the CA SC reaffirmed that the state law preempts city ordinances. The only questions are: How soon will they have to pay? and How much will the bill be