Posted July 29, 2019 4:24 pm by Comments

By Ammoland

Judges Court Gavel Law Legal

Opinon by Marion P. Hammer
USF Executive Director
NRA Past President

Court Rules Public Officials Can’t Be Punished for Violating the Law

Florida – -(AmmoLand.com)- A Leon County, Florida Circuit Court judge has just given rogue, anti-gun public officials a “get-out-of-jail-free card.”

This court has effectively given tacit approval for local government officials to knowingly and willfully violate the state preemption law by striking down the penalty provisions. The message is: go ahead and violate the law, the state can’t punish you.

Specifically, in a lawsuit brought by several anti-gun South Florida cities and counties, the court struck down the $5,000 fine and the risk of removal from office for individual public officials, local governments, and government agencies who willfully and knowing violate the state preemption law by adopting local gun control ordinances.

In their opposition brief, the NRA argued “It is a bedrock principle of American constitutional law that local governments have no legal authority to defy the will of their creator: the state.”

This ruling is like a parent telling an underage teenager, you are forbidden to smoke, drink alcohol, do drugs or have unprotected sex — but don’t worry, if you disobey me and do it anyhow, I won’t punish you.

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Source:: AmmoLand

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