Mallory to sue? UPDATED

Rumor has it that the City will be filing suit to block the implementation of Ohio's newest gun law.

The new law, which goes into effect Wednesday the 14th of March (tomorrow), has the positive effect of creating a uniform set of gun laws across the state. It also provides attorney's fees to those who challenge a municipality's continued ordinances or regulations that are in conflict with the new state law.

Basically, the new law confirms that the people have the right to own, transport or carry any firearm, openly or concealed, in the State of Ohio as long as they are within compliance with Ohio law. In short: Local gun control laws are tossed out, and we have the same rules everywhere in Ohio!

Shame on the City for filing suit, assuming the rumors are correct.

UPDATE: Well, WTF has an old college friend who works in Cleveland. He tells WTF that Cleveland is filing the suit, with Cincinnati to possibly join on. They'd rather try in Cuyahoga County, where they'll find liberal judges. Hamilton County Judges are too scary to Mallory and his crew.

DC Court of Appeals: 2nd Amendment protects an Individual Right.

This is great news. Proof that the Courts are not always insane.

To summarize, we conclude that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. That right existed prior to the formation of the new government under the Constitution and was premised on the private use of arms for activities such as hunting and self-defense, the latter being understood as resistance to either private lawlessness or the depredations of a tyrannical government (or a threat from abroad). In addition, the right to keep and bear arms had the important and salutary civic purpose of helping to preserve the citizen militia. The civic purpose was also a political expedient for the Federalists in the First Congress as it served, in part, to placate their Antifederalist opponents. The individual right facilitated militia service by ensuring that citizens would not be barred from keeping the arms they would need when called forth for militia duty. Despite the importance of the Second Amendment's civic purpose, however, the activities it protects are not limited to militia service, nor is an individual's enjoyment of the right contingent upon his or her continued or intermittent enrollment in the militia.

Link to the Decision

What right thinking people knew all along!