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Nassau County, on Long Island, New York, enacted an ordinance which bans handguns in non-traditional colors, such as pink. The ordinance declares such firearms to be “deceptively colored.” On December 28, the Appellate Division, Second Department (the intermediate court of appeals) ruled 4–0 that the Nassau ban is preempted by New York State’s handgun licensing law. While the state law, Penal Law § 400.00, is not explicitly preemptive, the Appellate Division found implicit field preemption because: 1. The licensing law is detailed, and describes what kinds of handguns may not be licensed. 2. The state statute declares that a license…

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West Allis Aldermen put off until next month a vote on an ordinance banning future gun shops from neighborhood business districts.
City Administrative Officer Paul Ziehler said Common Council members wanted city staff to draw up a map showing the location of schools in relation to the areas of the city where the shops would be allowed.

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The issue allowing for the operation of indoor firing ranges in the city did not move anywhere in the legislative process, but received a warm reception when council first looked at the ordinance.
The ordinance was first discussed in a committee meeting, with one of the partners involved with the first planned firing range on hand to field questions. Also in a show of support were several Boy Scouts and leaders of Troop 63 in Wooster.

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Today, the Ottumwa City Council opted to remove a proposed gun-ban from their agenda. The ordinance was originally designed to deny all Iowans the ability to lawfully carry firearms in any city-owned building or park. Thanks to our members’ phone calls to the city council and mayor’s office, the city attorney decided to pull the ordinance for further research, thus earning citizens of Ottumwa and Iowans across the state a temporary victory.

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Various news sources, including The Heartland Connection, are reporting that Ottmwa has decided to NOT bring up a proposed anti-gun ordinance at tonight's City Council meeting. This was originally reported in my Examiner column yesterday. While that is good news, there is a wrinkle – the ordinance change hasn't been killed. According to sources in Ottumwa, it's been tabled with the option to bring it back up for consideration a later date. Gun rights advocates can be pleased with the decision to table the change. Ottumwa needs to realize that despite their best efforts to hide the true intention of…

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The township is holding off on a proposed change to its firearms rules after residents continued to raise objections.
Trustees are looking at an ordinance that would ban hunting within 450 feet of any school property, church or business and would require residents to seek written consent of the property owners if they chose to hunt on premises other than their own.
If passed, there also would be stricter limits on target practice, which would require permission from the township police chief.

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(GunReports.com) — While the City of Chicago is currently in federal court stubbornly defending its new gun ordinance, data reveals that the city’s United Center Park is the most dangerous neighborhood in the country, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.’The city’s new gun ordinance is deliberately designed to discourage citizens from obtaining handguns for personal protection,’ noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, ‘yet today’s news reveals citizens in at least one Windy City neighborhood are in desperate need of the training and tools to defend themselves. It is time for Chicago residents to demand that the city amend or abolish its new gun ordinance, and stop defending it in federal court.’

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The Chadron City Council is considering changing a city ordinance that prohibits carrying loaded firearms in vehicles as some in the Nebraska town believe state and federal laws are already adequate when it comes to gun control. “It looks like the state has adequately covered the whole thing, and there is no reason for us to mess with it,” council member John Gamby said recently at the second reading of an ordinance amendment to drop the prohibition of carrying a loaded rifle in plain view in a vehicle. Gamby suggested the change after a review earlier this year of the…

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The Boone County Fiscal Court was scheduled Tuesday to consider allowing citizens to carry concealed deadly weapons into county parks, the Boone County Administration Building and other county owned property.
The county’s current ordinance bans carrying concealed weapons into all buildings the county owns, leases or controls. But under a draft ordinance, citizens who are properly licensed according to Kentucky law would be able to carry concealed deadly weapons onto the property the county leases or owns with some exceptions.

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On Tuesday, September 21, 2010, the Santa Clara City Council was scheduled to adopt Ordinance No. 1863, which would prohibit the possession of firearms in city parks (with the only exception being for “peace officers,” no exception for unloaded open carry or for CCW holders).
But the item was withdrawn from consideration by unanimous vote of the City Council when Santa Clara City Manager Jennifer Sparacino raised legal concerns brought up by a letter received from National Rifle Association (“NRA”) and California Rifle and Pistol Association (“CRPA”) attorneys.

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