Nutter Gets Slapped Down in Court [View All]

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The well-named mayor who thinks he can enforce illegal laws (a gun control tradition) got his well deserved legal spanking:

Judge strikes down some Philadelphia gun laws

By Andrew Maykuth

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
A Philadelphia judge today sided with the National Rifle Association and struck down city ordinances banning assault weapons and limiting handgun purchases to one a month.

In a blow to the city's attempt to write its own gun laws, Common Pleas Court Judge Jane Cutler-Greenspan ruled that Philadelphia should be permanently prevented from enforcing the laws that the City Council passed unanimously in April.

But Greenspan gave city officials a consolation prize by declining to strike down three other laws on procedural grounds, indicating that the NRA and other plaintiffs did not have legal standing to challenge those laws.

They escaped a total defeat on a technicality, but only temporarily:

Shields said it was only a matter of time, as the city attempted to enforce the laws, that the NRA would locate aggrieved parties who could act as plaintiffs.

I may not agree with every tactic of the NRA, but thank goodness someone stands up to anti-gun thugs who would trample state law, state constitutions and the federal Constitution in their unprincipled and dishonest quest to get what they want. (If we wait on the ACLU to defend the Second Amendment, we'll be waiting a long time.)

Source: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/breaking/news_breaking/20080603_Judge_strikes_down_some_Philadelphia_gun_laws.html