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Wisconsin Police Chief Badgers Residents to Forego Second and Fourth Amendment Rights

Posted: December 13, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Perhaps inspired by the recent introduction of surprise home inspections of gun licensees in the UK, Beloit, Wisc., Police Chief Norm Jacobs issued a press release on December 1, urging city residents to volunteer for warrantless police searches of their homes for firearms.  Jacobs framed the residential probes as a valuable “opportunity” his department was offering to the public.  Notably, the press release did not offer participants immunity from prosecution for any illegally-possessed firearms or other contraband police might find while “inspecting” the premises, suggesting the program was aimed squarely at law-abiding households.

In the press release, Jacobs made clear that he doesn’t have a very high opinion of the gun-owing residents in his community.  The concerns that prompted his initiative included his belief that residents are not able to account for guns within their own homes, fail to secure them adequately against theft or unauthorized access, or use them “in the fit of rage” to “settle scores.”  Jacobs even absurdly insisted, “We need to consider potential crime guns as if they were the Ebola Virus and deal with them similarly to a health care issue” (no word from the chief yet on whether he’ll offer a similar program to snoop for unhealthy snacks or those showing signs of infectious disease).

Beloit isn’t the first city to explore this type of “voluntary” rights relinquishment program.  In 2008, Boston and the District of Columbia launched so-called “Safe Homes” initiatives where a resident, or an informer, could alert police to the possibility of an illegally possessed firearm inside a residence.  Police would then be sent to the location and attempt to acquire consent for a search of the premises.  The initiatives were met with widespread opposition, prompting D.C. to abandon their program, while the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts expressed its displeasure with Boston’s.  Offering a further critique of the Boston program was Boston City Councilor Michael Flaherty.  A Boston Globe article described his opposition to the initiative, stating, “Flaherty argues that the Safe Homes Initiative has been a bust.  Obviously, not many people have been willing to turn in their weapons voluntarily.”

Fortunately, Beloit city officials have stepped in and put a halt to Jacobs’ scheme.  In a December 9 press release, the Beloit Office of City Manager stated, “At this time, the department is withdrawing its offer under this initiative, and will be submitting the program to the City’s legal office for further review.”  Officials admitted reaction to the program had been negative.

Chief Jacobs’s belief that firearms in the home of law-abiding residents pose enough of a public safety risk for police to search for and seize them serves as a chilling reminder of how important all of our constitutional rights are, including the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.  It also suggests a need for the chief to rethink his policing priorities and focus on those actually committing crime, none of whom accepted his offer or would ever be likely to do so.  In the future, we suggest he leave the “health care issues” and house calls to local doctors and start brushing up on police tactics for dealing with actual bad guys.

http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/articles/2014/12/wisconsin-police-chief-badgers-residents-to-forego-second-and-fourth-amendment-rights.aspx

Pew poll confirms amnesty a danger to gun rights

Posted: December 13, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Amnesty will give a foreign culture demonstrably hostile to the right to keep and bear arms a significant say in legislation affecting it.
Amnesty will give a foreign culture demonstrably hostile to the right to keep and bear arms a significant say in legislation affecting it.
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Survey results made public Wednesday by Pew Research Center show public support for protecting gun rights on the rise across all demographics except for two notable categories, “liberal Democrats” and “Hispanics.” Significantly, the latest numbers also show the most dramatic increase in support for gun rights over gun control among African Americans, who registered a 25 percent gain to a majority position of acknowledging guns protect more than they put people at risk.

While the new survey may encourage gun rights activists to make inroads appealing to black voters to elect gun rights-supporting politicians instead of automatically giving power to anti-gun urban Democrats, attitudes expressed by Hispanics show overwhelming rejection of pro-gun political sentiment. With only 25 percent favoring laws protecting the right to own guns, 71 percent want government to “control ownership.”

That tracks with warnings issued by Gun Owners of America, curiously alone among national gun rights advocacy groups. GOA has warned that amnesty for illegal aliens, and a “pathway to citizenship,” will provide for millions of new anti-gun voters with the electoral clout to undo all hard-won legislative and judicial gains gun owners have enjoyed in recent years. That in turn has bearing on what Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, the official behind so-called “executive amnesty,” told the United Conference of Mayors in January, when he maintained that “the approximately 11 million people who are in the country illegally have ‘earned the right to be citizens.’”

With other gun groups justifying their inaction to take on amnesty under the “single issue” excuse that it’s not directly about guns, with establishment Republicans and their Chamber of Commerce patrons favoring labor that’s “cheap” for employers because true costs are borne by all and don’t appear on their books, and with Democrats and the mainstream media in lockstep with Barack Obama’s plan to “fundamentally transform America,” those opposing amnesty are becoming increasingly isolated.

If holdout gun organizations neither make politicians accountable for amnesty support, nor make the developing political gun rights threat known to their members, most gun owners may remain unaware, uninformed and unconvinced until it’s too late for them to seek political solutions. Indications are, such groups would not be motivated to alter a policy of deliberate indifference unless enough members to get their attention demanded it, and backed that up by loudly redirecting support to GOA.

That’s assuming it’s not already too late. Per CNS News, the spending bill passed Thursday by John Boehner “join[ing] forces” with Barack Obama “does not prohibit the president from using appropriated money to implement his plan to legalize illegal aliens, [meaning] the president may move forward–drawing taxed and borrowed money from the Treasury–to carry out this plan.”

All that’s left is what Gun Owners of America describes as a “a Hail Mary pass.” The group issued an alert Friday urging members to contact their senators “to say NO to the anti-gun funding bill.”

http://www.examiner.com/article/pew-poll-confirms-amnesty-a-danger-to-gun-rights?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Republicans leaving anti-rights restoration provision in appropriations bill

Posted: December 11, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Despite a big win in November, Republicans are ceding to the wishes of Barack Obama while alienating their conservative base, political commentator James Simpson noted in a Thursday American Thinker analysis of the 2015 spending bill being negotiated at this writing. Among the dangers he lists include a provision that will allow for changes after the vote, along with continued funding for executive amnesty and Obamacare, with a special notation that “Provisions supporting gun rights were removed.”

“[B]etween 40 and 50 Republican representatives have already jumped ship and are opposing the Republican leadership,” Gun Owners of America told members in a Tuesday alert describing rank and file push-back against what is being widely perceived as a GOP betrayal and sell-out. “This means that at least a fifth — and maybe more — of [House Minority Leader Nancy] Pelosi’s minions will have to be ordered to support [House Speaker John] Boehner for it to pass. And Pelosi has made it clear to the press that the bill will have to be altered to be satisfactory to her in order for her to provide those votes.

One of the changes the GOP could insist on now would be to restore funding closed off through an appropriations maneuver by anti-gun New York Democrat Chuck Schumer for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives “to investigate or act upon applications for relief from Federal firearms disabilities submitted by individuals.” Unless and until that is done, “[T]housands upon thousands of Americans who are disqualified from owning firearms because of non-violent federal felonies have no way to get their gun rights back,” GOA noted in January.

The prohibition on relief funding remains in the ATF expense section of the bill. The section beginning on page 139 notes “That none of the funds appropriated herein shall be available to investigate or act upon applications for relief from Federal firearms disabilities under 23 section 925(c) of title 18, United States Code.”

At this writing, as things are unfolding in real time, it appears a revolt has almost killed the bill, and floor votes may not be enough to allow it to pass, particularly if opposing Democrats hold fast to their reasons for objection. If that happens, Matthew Boyle of Breitbart notes, “congressional leadership is planning to change tack and move forward with a three-month stopgap spending bill, or a clean Continuing Resolution.”

If that happens, GOA will once again have proven itself as a uniquely effective “no-compromise” national leader in the gun rights advocacy community. Whether that will be widely recognized by even more gun owners than currently count themselves among its supporters, and repaid in kind with a commensurate merited increase in membership support, remains to be seen.

http://www.examiner.com/article/republicans-leaving-anti-rights-restoration-provision-appropriations-bill?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Florida open carry case tests recognition of bearing arms

Posted: December 11, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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A conviction being contested in Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal will challenge the state’s recognition of the meaning of the right to bear arms, NBC’s WPT5 in West Palm Beach reported Monday. Unknown to him at the time of his arrest in 2012, concealed carry permit holder Dale Lee Norman’s gun was exposed to view resulting in his conviction for open carrying, a decision now being challenged on Second Amendment grounds.

Dale Lee Norman is arrested by Fort Pierce, Fla. police for open carrying a gun.

Screenshot from Fort Pierce, Fla. Police dashcam video.

Florida law does not provide for open carry of handguns except in limited cases, such as while hunting, camping and fishing. At the heart of the legal issue is prior precedent declaring concealed carry a privilege, Norman’s attorney Eric Friday, who is also lead counsel for the statewide grassroots gun rights group Florida Carry, maintained. With open carry prohibited, there is no legally-recognized right to bear arms, a situation that directly contradicts the U.S. and Florida constitutions.

Among those opposing Norman’s challenge is Artie Williams of Mothers Against Murderers, who says the practice “gives the carrier an intimidation factor.” As prohibited persons may not possess a gun without being in violation of the law, just who lawful gun owners might be intimidating, aside from those intent on victimizing others, is not clear.

The anti-gun group’s website notes it was founded “in memory of … Torrey Donnell Manuel, who lost his life due to a senseless act of violence.” Further explanations on the circumstances of that act are not provided, nor is any further clarifying information apparent from search engine results. Co-founder Angela Williams maintains “she also lost 13 additional family members to gun violence in Palm Beach County, Florida.”

That there may be solutions to prevent similar losses that don’t involve the state depriving law-abiding gun owners of their rights is left unstated. “Gun violence,” without further examination of individual circumstances, is a broad term, and identifying the factors contributing to the cited family losses might shed light on superior alternatives.

For its part, Florida Carry continues to support and promote Norman in his appeal. The group has established a Norman v. State resource page to give background on the case, including providing access to many of the filings, as well as an interesting side trip of sorts explaining how “the Florida Attorney General’s Office filed an extraordinary motion with the Florida Supreme Court attempting to prohibit the Fourth District Court of Appeals from hearing the case.” The page also links to online donation and membership forms so that gun owners can support the group’s legal, legislative, educational and outreach efforts, allowing Florida Carry to continue its work and to expand its influence.

http://www.examiner.com/article/florida-open-carry-case-tests-recognition-of-bearing-arms?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Second Circuit To Hear Oral Arguments On Gun Lawsuit

Posted: December 11, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in the case of Shew vs. Malloy, a legal challenge to the key provisions of Connecticut’s post-Newtown gun control legislation.
After Legislative Defeat, Gun Owners Aim For Election Successes
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The lawsuit, filed by a coalition of state gun owners, firearms dealers, and gun rights groups, seeks to overturn the assault weapons ban and the 10-round ammunition magazine limit that were enacted in 2013 as part of the legislature’s response to the December 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 first-graders and six educators using a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle and high capacity ammunition magazines, both of which are illegal under the new law.

The law, which was described at the time of passage as the “toughest in the nation,” was upheld in federal court in Connecticut last January. U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello wrote in the decision that “while the act burdens the plaintiffs’ Second Amendment rights, it is substantially related to the important governmental interest of public safety and crime control.”

The plaintiffs immediately appealed the decision. They argue in their complaint that the law is unconstitutionally vague, discriminatory, and infringes upon Second Amendment rights.

Assault weapons and high-capacity magazines are commonly used in both shooting sports and self-defense, and thus subject to Second Amendment protection, the plaintiffs argue.

In a brief filed with the appeals court, the state countered that the law only bans “a small subset of firearms and large-capacity magazines that … are disproportionately selected by criminals for use in gun crime.”

The law’s broadened definition of an assault weapon and new limit on magazine size, the state argues, is related to “an important governmental interest in ending gun violence and death.”

The state argued that the law “leaves more than one thousand alternative firearms and magazines for law-abiding citizens to acquire and possess for self-defense.” Weapons like the AR-15, they argued, “have no utility for legitimate self-defense and are not actually used for such purposes in practice.”

The plaintiffs argue that the law is discriminatory because off-duty police and military personnel are exempt from the assault weapons ban and high-capacity ammunition magazine limit.

The definition of an assault weapon under the act is so vague that it leaves gun owners “without knowledge of what is prohibited,” plaintiffs argue.

Also on Tuesday, the Second Circuit will hear oral arguments in a separate challenge to the sweeping gun control package passed in New York in response to the Newtown massacre.

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-gun-lawsuit-advance-20141208-story.html

Nevada accepts Bloomberg ‘gun control’ ballot measure despite irregularities

Posted: December 10, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Control enthusiast Michael Bloomberg trusts himself with a gun he does not trust citizens to possess.
Control enthusiast Michael Bloomberg trusts himself with a gun he does not trust citizens to possess.
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Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller has certified that proponents of a Michael Bloomberg-backed 2016 ballot measure on “background checks” have submitted the required number of signatures The Washington Times reported Monday. The assessment comes after a grassroots group opposing the initiative, Nevadans for State Gun Rights, submitted evidence of numerous irregularities and rules violations.

Miller’s December 8 notice of sufficiency to Nevada County Clerks and Registrars of Voters noted receipt of their certificates of results. Based on a tally of “valid signatures” in the state’s four petition districts, he declared “the background check initiative petition sufficient.”

A November 25 letter to Miller signed by Nevadans for State Gun Rights President Don Turner contained three requests for invalidation. The first noted petitions delivered after the required submission date. The second pointed out the lack of required affidavits for each page of signatures submitted, and that it specified the wrong county. The third showed an example of an affidavit signed and dated before all the signatures appearing on it had been obtained.

“There’s plenty of time to challenge the certification,” Turner noted in response to Miller’s decision. “We’re probably going to end up in court.”

The group behind the ballot measure, Nevadans for Background Checks, has been revealed by the state’s registered business site to be an entity established by Bloomberg’s Everytown team, with the same players as were behind the recent billionaire-backed ballot measure in Washington. Gun rights advocate warnings that the outside special interest-financed group is using bait and switch on voters to engineer an incremental gain toward further controls are bolstered by a summary report on gun violence prevention strategies in which Greg Ridgeway, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Justice, concluded “Effectiveness [of background checks] depends on the ability to reduce straw purchasing, requiring gun registration…”

That Bloomberg modus operandi is further confirmed by a Thursday Seattle Times analysis. Backers of the Washington measure are “buoyed” by its passage, the report noted, adding “backers of stricter gun laws will press state lawmakers for additional measures…”

“We have worked to challenge Bloomberg’s ballot initiative at every turn, and now we need your help,” Nevadans for State Gun Rights pleaded in an appeal to gun owners for support. “It is going to take all of us working together to stop this thing. We need to raise funds for our legal challenges and to make sure every Nevadans hears from us before they cast their votes in 2016.”

With the effort getting underway, the gun rights advocacy group has established itself with an internet presence to share information, which in turn can be shared by supportive activists. The main website gives a background on reasons behind their efforts, includes downloadable flyers for explaining facts and spreading the word, and provides for online donations by grassroots activists to offset the massive flow of out-of-state money that Bloomberg will be pouring in. That site is supplemented with a Twitter feed, where the latest news and information will be posted for sharing.

http://www.examiner.com/article/nevada-accepts-bloomberg-gun-control-ballot-measure-despite-irregularities?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Hell No ! Vote on Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General Nominee, May Be Near

Posted: December 9, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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WASHINGTON — The Senate could vote by the end of the week on President Obama’s choice for surgeon general, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, whose nomination the White House pulled back on last spring after intense National Rifle Association opposition.

In what would be one of his final acts as majority leader, Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, is leaning toward holding a vote before Congress adjourns, a senior Democratic aide said Monday. When lawmakers return to Washington in January, both the House and Senate will be under Republican control, and Dr. Murthy will stand virtually no chance of confirmation.

Mr. Reid is eager for a resolution to Dr. Murthy’s nomination even though he cannot be assured of the outcome, the aide said, speaking anonymously because no final decision has been made.

The White House is guardedly optimistic that Dr. Murthy would be confirmed if a vote is held now. Since Senate Democrats changed filibuster rules for nominees last year, he would need only a simple majority of 51 senators rather than 60. Dr. Murthy has been pressing his case personally, in private meetings with many of the Democrats who were initially wary of supporting him.

When his nomination became imperiled last winter, the trouble stemmed from difficulty with about 10 reluctant Democrats. But now several of those senators have committed to supporting Dr. Murthy or are no longer expressing skepticism.

Some just lost their seats and are freer to vote without fear of political repercussions. Others represent states where a vote against the National Rifle Association could be politically dangerous and waited until after the elections to take a public stance.

Although the surgeon general’s office has no formal role in overseeing federal firearms policy, gun rights advocates objected to Dr. Murthy’s nomination because of his support for restricting how guns can be purchased and who can own them. Dr. Murthy, an internal medicine physician, has said his concerns about guns stem from his experience in emergency rooms.

The National Rifle Association said Monday that its position had not softened. “Dr. Murthy’s penchant for political activism is deeply troubling,” said a spokesman, Andrew Arulanandam.

Dr. Murthy’s life long anti-gun activism makes him wholly unqualified for the job of surgeon general.

His opinion that firearms are a “public health issue” are misguided at best.

Due to Murthy’s anti-gun activism-he has no business being in a position to impose his own warped view of firearms on the rest of us.

Anyone who votes to confirm this moron needs to be publicly humiliated,and voted out of office-by a recall election if possible.

I already posted a rant about Murthy,back when MSLSD was blaming the NRA for Ebola…

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Gun disability relief funding ban could be challenged in spending bill

Posted: December 8, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Republicans could challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer's obstacle to funding the firearms disabilities relief program, if they wanted to.
Republicans could challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer’s obstacle to funding the firearms disabilities relief program, if they wanted to.
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House and Senate negotiators are nearing a $1.1 trillion spending deal to avert a government shutdown, Politico reported Sunday. Their goal is to file the measure today and bring it to a floor vote by Thursday, when the current funding stops.

Gun Owners of America warned against doing exactly what the Republican leadership is planning in a November 17 alert. Rather than effectively giving current seated Democrats the power to shape the agenda through to next September, GOA instead called on members to generate pressure for a short term continuing resolution, a measure that would keep the government going until the new majority was seated.

It appears that call went unheeded, and the GOP is set to cede much of the control it was elected to exert. That this will work against the interests of those who put them in power, particularly against gun owners, is elaborated on in the GOA alert.

Noting it was largely due to the gun rights vote that Republicans captured the Senate and widened their lead in the House, what will change as a result, if anything, is unclear. If restrictions remain unchallenged, it will recall the many times rules objectionable to gun owners have quietly been allowed to remain in place. Still, there is one change that could be insisted on now, and if it derailed the spending approval process either in a Harry Reid-controlled Senate, or if Barack Obama rejected it, that decision would fall squarely on the Democrats: Congress could, if it wanted to, restore funding to allow for relief of firearms disabilities — or at least it could after January if it passed a short term resolution and left the long term bill for the incoming majority.

Per the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, “prohibited persons” convicted of state-level offenses can contact their state attorney general to learn their options for civil rights restoration. Federal offenses currently require a presidential pardon, with other lawful options provided for in the Gun Control Act of 1968 closed off due to an appropriations technicality, once implemented due to maneuvering by Sen. Charles Schumer.

“The bill continues anti-gun boilerplate such as the Senator Schumer amendment defunding the McClure-Volkmer disabilities relief program,” GOA warned in January, the last time an appropriations bill was sent to the president. “This means that thousands upon thousands of Americans who are disqualified from owning firearms because of non-violent federal felonies have no way to get their gun rights back.”

Assuming the “Cromnibus” bill will not be stopped, eliminating that “boilerplate” would be the first of many steps Republicans could take to actually earn the trust they have been tentatively extended. If it remains, and if an amendment is not even offered or debated on, gun owners will have a fair indication of what they can continue to expect after January.

http://www.examiner.com/article/gun-disability-relief-funding-ban-could-be-challenged-spending-bill?CID=examiner_alerts_article

New York flags 278 gun owners as mentally unstable

Posted: December 8, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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New York State’s tough new SAFE Act gun control law has flagged 278 gun owners who could lose their weapons because they have been deemed mentally unstable, a new report shows.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged lawmakers to pass the SAFE Act quickly after the 2012 mass shooting at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

The Syracuse Post-Standard reported last week that since the law’s enactment, the state has collected 38,718 names in a database of individuals who have been found at-risk for owning guns by psychiatrists and other health professionals.

The paper said when the database was checked against a list of pistol permit holders in the state, there were 278 matches, less than 1 percent.

Monroe County had the most matches at 36, followed by Westchester, 17, Suffolk, 16 and Dutchess, 14.

The paper said it obtained the county-by-county breakdown from the state in response to a public records law request.

The paper reported that the state does not tally how many individuals in the database have had their permits suspended and guns confiscated. The names in the database are confidential. Judges have to sign off on the suspensions and confiscations, and someone who faces the loss of their permit and weapons can challenge the order.

Cortland County Clerk Elizabeth Larkin told the Post-Standard the police confiscated the guns from a least one permit holder whose name was in the database.

“We had another man who came in and voluntarily handed us his permit and gave his weapons to the police and said, ‘I don’t want them anymore,’” Larkin said.

The size of the database troubles some mental health providers and patient advocates.

“It’s bigger than I thought,” Harvey Rosenthal, executive director of the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilition Services in Albany, told the Post-Standard. “It sends a message to those who might need care that there are a lot of people who are going to be in a database.”

Gun control advocates say the number of names in the database is small compared to the size of the state’s population, which is 20 million.

“It only takes one individual to wreak mayhem and tragedy if they have access to a firearm,” Leah Gunn Barrett, of the group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, said. “These are individuals who, under no circumstances, should have guns.”

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/07/new-york-safe-act-flags-278-gun-owners-as-mentally-unstable/

Gun control as a “public health” issue-just like Vivek Murthy-Obola’s pick for surgeon general.

Pa AG Kane won’t defend NRA-backed law on firearms rules

Posted: December 6, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is leaving it to the governor’s office to defend a lawsuit challenging a law backed by the National Rifle Association that was designed to dismantle illegal municipal firearms ordinances, officials said Friday.

A spokesman for Gov. Tom Corbett said the governor’s legal office will defend the law against the challenge led by Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Lancaster. Kane’s office sent word earlier in the week that she would not take the case.

Corbett, a Republican who opposes new forms of gun control, signed the law last month. The law widens the ability of the NRA or gun owners to successfully sue over municipal firearms ordinances.

“We can find no legitimate reason for the attorney general to decline to defend the commonwealth in this case,” said Corbett’s spokesman, Jay Pagni.

Kane’s office said only that it was more efficient and in the best interest of Pennsylvania for the governor’s lawyers to defend the law. Last year, Kane, a Democrat, refused to defend Pennsylvania’s law banning the recognition of same-sex marriage against a federal lawsuit. Corbett’s office unsuccessfully defended the law, and it was struck down in May.

The firearms law takes effect in early January, and opponents fear it will unleash a wave of expensive lawsuits against dozens of cities and towns that have sought to curb gun violence but bumped up against a Legislature that has resisted new gun control measures.

Corbett leaves office Jan. 20 after losing last month’s election, and he will be replaced by Democrat Tom Wolf, whose campaign said in October that Wolf opposed the idea of allowing “outside organizations to sue towns and cities that enact local ordinances.”

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/kane-wont-defend-nra-backed-195336844.html

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