Is This The Next Big Gun Control Fight?

[fishpoem]

https://themachinegunnest.com/is-this-the-next-big-gun-control-fight/ (As a preview, the first few paragraphs are below. There's much more, and it's worth reading the entire article.)
The next battleground for gun rights will likely be fought at the local level, and it's going to be a tough fight.

Since the Gun Control lobby can't seem to pass any gun control through Congress, they've taken two different but distinct pathways. The first is the Biden administration ruling by executive fiat and using the DOJ & ATF to push "regulations" that affect gun owners using existing laws on the books.

The second is something we have mentioned before, but now we are starting to see a pattern from anti-gun groups. There's a heightened push for gun control at the local level, specifically about State Preemption.

Giffords, one of the largest anti-gun organizations, has been making a serious push for states to overturn their preemption statutes concerning gun laws. In 2021 they scored a significant victory when the Colorado General Assembly repealed the majority of its firearms preemption statute, making them the first state in the country to do so. According to Allison Alderman, senior counsel at Giffords, other states are looking to follow Colorado's footsteps.
(Read the rest online. This very well could prove a very big deal. )

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[Koda]

Yes, take away a states gun preemptions and then you can create a mosaic of gun laws that pretty much make it impossible to carry in your state lawfully, make lawful gun owners criminals is the plan.

 

[VanceInWA]

The issue of eliminating a state preemption statute may not necessarily be the end of the story. Ever since an Iowa court case in 1868, commonly referred to as "Dillon's Rule" (named after the judge in the case, John Dillon), the legal system in the United States has had a three-tiered test to determine whether a municipality has authority to pass a given law:
1. The power is expressly granted by the state;
2. The power is necessarily or fairly implied in, or incident to, powers expressly granted to municipalities; or
3. The power is otherwise implied as essential to the declared objects and purposes of the municipality; not just convenient, but essential.
Juxtaposed against the very long and established Dillon's Rule, it will be interesting to see how this anti-gun strategy succeeds in the courts.

 

[kmk1012]

Tagged, I agree that they are coming for the 2A on every front.

 

[VanceInWA]

Tagged, I agree that they are coming for the 2A on every front.

Indeed. And the resulting question for me is which gun organization will do the best job, and thus deserves my direct contributions, in combating 2A attacks. I'm not entirely convinced that the NRA is that organization...

 

[Member 75076]

Ginny Burdick (who is deep in the pockets of Bloomberg) twice introduced a preemption repeal in the last two years and thankfully both times the bill failed to make it out of committee. She is retiring as far as I am aware but I guarantee we'll see someone introduce it again during next year's session in Oregon.

 

[USMC1911]

It is pretty simple, as long as Democrats are in power in Salem our gun rights are in danger.

 

[Koda]

Ginny Burdick (who is deep in the pockets of Bloomberg) twice introduced a preemption repeal in the last two years and thankfully both times the bill failed to make it out of committee. She is retiring as far as I am aware but I guarantee we'll see someone introduce it again during next year's session in Oregon.

We lost our preemtion last years session when they passed their gun free zone bill.