Montana Supreme Court Strikes Down Missoula Gun Ordinance

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Courthouse News

Montana Supreme Court Strikes Down Missoula Gun Ordinance
October 22, 2019 DAVID REESE

(CN) – The Montana Supreme Court Tuesday struck down a city’s attempt to perform background checks on people purchasing or transferring guns within its city limits.

The City of Missoula, Montana, enacted an ordinance in 2016 requiring people purchasing or receiving a firearm to pass a national background check.

Three months after the ordinance was enacted, Montana Attorney General Tim Fox issued an opinion that said cities with self-governmental powers, such as Missoula, are prohibited by Montana law from enforcing a regulation or ordinance requiring background checks on firearm sales or transfers.

The city then sought declaratory judgment from a state district court on Fox’s directive. The lower court ruled that the gun ordinance was authorized under state law, which authorizes cities to “prevent and suppress … the possession of firearms by convicted felons, adjudicated mental incompetents, illegal aliens, and minors.”

Read more: https://www.courthousenews.com/montana-supreme-court-strikes-down-missoulas-gun-ordinance/

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Montana Attorney General Tim Fox

[abqtommy]

1. Montana is a great state in many ways but not in this.

[sakabatou]

2. Ugh....

[Delmette2.0]

3. I don't understand the blocking a small city trying to enforce one way to keep people safe.

[riversedge]

4. Either do I.

[Elmer1007]

6. Firearm laws should be uniform within a state.

Firearms laws should be uniform within a state, so that at person would have reasonable notice of the law. A person living in one town might have no knowledge of the law in another town.

[hack89]

8. Most states reserve the right to pass gun laws to themselves

to avoid a hodge podge of laws that inadvertently entrap people.

[mjvpi]

5. I live in Missoula

My Favorite bumper sticker is:
I love Missoula. Only 30 minutes from Montana.
We have quite the contrast in our state government. Steve Bullock is a brilliant Democrat. He’s worked hard on calling out dark money in politics. An acknowledged common sense liberal in a red state. He should be running for the Senate here, but his Presidential aspirations will make him prime VP material

Tim Fox rode the Trump Train.

[rockfordfile]

7. That Tim Fox looks a lot like a real pos. He's got NRA stooge written all over him