Pittsburgh City Council To Vote On Illegal Gun Laws

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Matt Rourke

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and the City Council have been a little quiet lately. It was enough to make me hope they’d stopped this ridiculous campaign against guns in their city.

After all, Pennsylvania has a preemption law. That means local governments can’t create gun laws. It’s illegal to do so.

Yet Peduto persisted.

Then, nothing. Silence.

I wondered if Peduto had a fit of sanity and opted to let the issue fade into the background. There was never any chance of him reversing his position, but maybe he’d pretend it didn’t happen. You know, kind of like all those liberal pundits pretending they never claimed Trump would be removed from office after the Mueller Report was released.

Anyway, it seems that Peduto was doing no such thing. Instead, they’ll be voting Wednesday morning on the measure.

Pittsburgh City councilmembers will vote Wednesday morning on a series of controversial gun control bills.

The vote comes exactly five months since a gunman walked into a Squirrel Hill synagogue and killed 11 people.

It’s something several council members are pushing for, but gun rights advocates are saying it’s unconstitutional.

Some semi-automatic weapons, ammunition and accessories could be one step closer to being banned in Pittsburgh when …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms