Columbus rushes to pass gun control measures after favorable court ruling
Columbus City Council plans to quickly hold hearings and pass gun-safety, including measures limiting large-caliber magazine capacity, requiring safe storage around children and banning"straw" sales.
Minutes after the news conference by Columbus city officials announcing the plan Wednesday afternoon, the pro-gun Buckeye Firearms Association issued a statement saying the city's aim was"to ban AR-15 type rifles, limit magazine size, mandate gun locks, impose universal background checks, pass red flag laws, and more."
Rieck said that state lawmakers have been clear that they didn't want a"patchwork" of city firearms laws, just as they don't want nonstandardized traffic laws. Rieck said the city is broadly interpreting McIntosh's ruling to mean they can pass gun-control laws, while the association's attorneys believe the city is limited to how zoning laws interact with gun manufacturing operations.
"This is our moment," Mayor Andrew J. Ginther said, adding that firearms supporters would have the public believe that the nation's founding fathers and framers of the U.S. Constitution"intended mass murder."To bring the message home, Columbus officials invited a trauma surgeon, Dr. Keshav Deshpande, to speak at the press conference. He described a recent gunshot victim who arrived at OhioHealth Grant Medical Center, Downtown.
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