California City Sued Over Mandatory Reporting Law

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Matt York, File

The state of California doesn’t like to make it easy for gun owners. It’s not like the state is known for supporting the right to keep and bear arms in any way, shape, or form. There seems to be a certain pride in restricting firearms, even when there’s no reason for a law to exist. It doesn’t matter one way or another, the state’s going to create more gun control laws.

One rule in the state requires the mandatory reporting of missing firearms within five days of noticing it missing.

However, the city of Morgan Hill decided that five days was too long. It instituted a 48-hour requirement instead.

Now, one resident of the community is taking the city to court over it.

A Morgan Hill resident and a statewide firearms advocacy organization have sued the City of Morgan Hill over a local gun control ordinance enacted by the city council last year.

The plaintiffs—G. Mitchell Kirk and the California Rifle and Pistol Association—say the city ordinance’s new provision requiring gun owners to report incidents of firearm theft to police within 48 hours contradicts existing state law. The state law allows victims of gun theft up to five days …Read the Rest

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