LA City Council Creates Retired Cop Carve-Out for Ammunition Magazine Limit Law

By Robert Farago

Here we go again . . . “In a hotly contested move, Los Angeles lawmakers decided Wednesday to carve out more exemptions to a city law meant to curb the carnage of mass shootings, arguing that it would better protect the public from such attacks,” lattimes.com reports. Note: MORE exemptions. In its infinite wisdom, the LA City Council has already exempted active police officers from keeping and bearing ammunition magazines with greater than 10-round capacity. (A law that violates both the United States Constitution and California’s gun law preemption statute.) And now . . .

The Los Angeles City Council voted 11 to 4 to allow some retired and reserve police officers to possess firearm magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. The City Hall deliberations played out at the same time that reports emergedof a mass shooting in San Bernardino — news that Councilman Mitch Englander shared just before the vote.

Guess who was fighting whom?

The debate pitted the Los Angeles Police Department and the police union, a politically muscular group that has been an important player in local elections, against some of the gun-control activists who had championed the L.A. ban …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns