Pittsburgh Police Vow Not To Enforce City’s Illegal Anti-Gun Laws…For Now

By Tom Knighton

Despite the preemption laws on the books in Pennsylvania, the city of Pittsburgh has decided it somehow has the power to pass gun control laws of its own. In particular, they banned so-called “assault weapons” in the wake of the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting last year.

Unsurprisingly, this sparked off a legal challenge almost immediately. As preemption laws have been held up to previous challenges throughout the country, this one probably will also.

The issue is what would happen to all the people who are punished in the meantime? How many lives would be shattered before a legal challenge could finish worming its way through the courts?

Luckily, it looks like the answer is “zero.” For now, at least.

Attention gun owners: the city of Pittsburgh’s tough and controversial gun restrictions are now on hold.

“We have decided that we will not enforce the bill, but instead let the courts decide whether they pass the legal hurdles,” Mayor Bill Peduto told KDKA political editor Jon Delano on Monday.

This is fantastic news for Pittsburgh gun owners. A law unenforced is a law that might as well not exist. It’s why Second Amendment sanctuaries scare the crap out of anti-gunners. If their draconian …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms