In Oregon, the state court of appeals ruled that 2nd Amendment sanctuary cities are unlawful.
In Columbia County, they had passed a law making enforcement of state and federal gun laws illegal, and had provisions to fine law enforcement for doing their jobs.
The court is having none of this:
An Oregon court dealt a blow to the state’s “second amendment sanctuary” movement, deciding on Wednesday that local governments cannot ban police from enforcing certain gun laws in a ruling that could hold national ramifications for anti-gun control efforts.
At the center of the lawsuit was a 2020 measure passed in Columbia county, a conservative area in the Democratic state, that argued state and federal gun laws did not apply in the county and banned local officials from enforcing the regulations. The rural region was one of some 1,200 in the US, from Virginia to New Mexico to Florida, to pass a second amendment sanctuary resolution.
The Oregon state court of appeals ruled the law, which included fines for officials who enforce most federal and state gun laws, violated a law granting the state the authority to regulate firearms. The ordinance would effectively “create a ‘patchwork quilt’ of firearms laws in Oregon”, the court found.
Good.
This is one of the first rulings on this sort of laws, and it sets a wonderful precedent.
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I wonder how that ruling will affect sanctuary cities for undocumented immigrants, and refugee areas for women seeking abortions?
Given the different nature of the two declarations, and the extant court rulings on immigrant sanctuary cities, not much.
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