Pa. Supreme Court set to hear challenge on state gun law

[FakeNoose]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette link: https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2023/09/12/pennsylvania-supreme-court-challenge-state-gun-law/stories/202309120071

HARRISBURG — The state Supreme Court has scheduled an argument for Wednesday in a bid by Philadelphia and relatives of gun violence victims to revive a legal challenge to the state law barring local governments from passing gun control ordinances stricter than state law.

The case, Crawford v. Commonwealth, was filed in October 2020, claiming the state preemption law “handcuffs local governments so that they cannot enact or enforce even simple, well-researched policies that have been repeatedly shown to save lives, while it also refuses to enact statewide gun safety laws. … In short, the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s actions have stoked the gun violence epidemic.”

In May 2022, Commonwealth Court dismissed the case with three judges favoring dismissal and two dissenting. The plaintiffs appealed the Commonwealth Court decision to the Supreme Court.

“We will ask the PA Supreme Court to reverse Commonwealth Court’s previous dismissal of our case and send the case back to the lower court for discovery and trial,” the Public Interest Law Center said in a statement in July.

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This article in the PPG suggests that the case could have national implications, depending on how the PA Supreme Court rules. Of course the "Gun Owners of America" are all over it, are they related to the NRA I wonder?

[BlueIn_W_Pa]

1. It'll be interesting

I don't see how the case was dismissed on a prior case about a guy and his use of public water?

That said, gun laws should be state-wide, and not a myriad of laws at a municipality level.

So what, Pittsburgh who tried to enact stricter laws in it's boundary gets countered with the surrounding county that wants less restricting gun laws than state law?