This move will make a favorable Heller decision even sweeter than I could have imagined.
Berkeley lawmaker pushes local ban on handguns
An East Bay lawmaker’s bill to clear the way for local handgun bans has a committee hearing today, delving into issues now pending before the state and nation’s highest courts.
Assemblywoman Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, authored Assembly Bill 2566 in reaction to a state Court of Appeal ruling in January which upheld the voiding of San Francisco’s Measure H of 2005, approved by voters to bar city residents from owning handguns or from making or selling firearms or ammunition in the city.
Please, please, please let them pass this. If there is one city in the nation that deserves to have their violent crime rate skyrocket, it is Berkeley.
Yeah, but this would lift state preemption, so any city could do this. Mine (and most) probably wouldn’t, but still….