Second Amendment Foundation Warns Alabama City, Forego Gun Regulations Or Face Lawsuit

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BELLEVUE, WA –-(Ammoland.com)- The Second Amendment Foundation has warned the City of Guntersville, Ala. to drop its effort to pass an emergency citizen disarmament ordinance or face legal action.

Guntersville Mayor Leigh Dollar is reportedly working on a proposal – to be discussed at the city council’s March 4 2012 meeting – that would allow police to confiscate firearms from allegedly “unruly” citizens during an emergency, such as the aftermath of a storm.

“The city of Guntersville has no legal authority to adopt or enforce such an ordinance,” said SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb in a letter to Guntersville City Attorney Dan Warnes.

He also asserted that the city’s existing tax on firearms dealers and a prohibition on carrying firearms at farmers’ markets are also violations of state law.

Last year, SAF launched a pilot project in two states that calls attention to local ordinances that are in violation of state laws. The organization has gotten very good cooperation from communities in Virginia and Washington state, with but one exception. The City of Oak Harbor, Wash. initially balked at repealing a decades-old ban on guns in city parks, until SAF threatened a lawsuit and inspired a huge public turnout at a council meeting in January, resulting in the ordinance’s repeal.

“We recall vividly what happened after Hurricane Katrina,” Gottlieb said. “New Orleans police forcefully disarmed peaceful, law-abiding citizens for no good reason until we stepped in with a federal lawsuit and stopped it. Local public officials occasionally need to be reminded that they were elected to serve the public, not rule over their constituents or nullify their constitutional rights.

“What happened in New Orleans can never be allowed to happen again on American soil,” he insisted. “Evidently Mayor Dollar has forgotten that civil rights travesty, but we didn’t.”

The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.

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D. Murphy

Amen brother, come and take it!!

Becker

And I bet those guns were never returned.If anyone takes the time to look, they will find these firearms in the homes of the police that took them. Probably with the serial numbers filed off, too. I don’t know if a right to self protection is as much God given as it is a right we have to forcefully take from government, as we did from England. Now all the British are unarmed and subjects of lost freedom there. So are the Canadians and Australians, and if our government gets their way, coming to America soon. This is what we… Read more »

Ed

I live in Jefferson parish right next to Orleans parish in Louisiana. After Katrina my neighborhood was a total mess. We stayed and had to suffer many hardships for about 8 weeks . There was no power or utilies of any kind and no police or national guard to help because of the extensive water damage every where. We had prepared ahead of time for this event as we have been through many hurricanes in the past. Unlike Orleans parish , Jefferson parish officials did not conficate our firearms and violate our 2 nd amendment rights. And, they were needed… Read more »

Tony Pater

Thank you for standing up, and supporting our God given Rights.