Strangers in vans with candy are still welcome
Via WV Gazette
The city of Charleston’s gun laws could be gone as soon as Monday, Mayor Danny Jones said Tuesday.
“I have the votes to pass it,” Jones told the Gazette after a news conference related to a recent firearms law passed by the state Legislature. “Everybody understands, even the ones that don’t like it.”
Lawmakers on Saturday passed a bill that wouldn’t allow cities to regulate firearms beyond state and federal laws. The bill (SB317) eliminated a provision that required cities to get rid of gun ordinances in exchange for participation in the municipal home rule program — but it also took away a clause allowing cities to keep such ordinances enacted prior to 1994.
Jones said he may suspend the rules of City Council, which require a bill be read over the course of two meetings, in order to remove the 1993 ordinance that requires a three-day waiting period for the purchase of a handgun and limits handgun purchases to one firearm a month.
“The Second Amendment crowd can have a victory,” Jones said. “We don’t have any choice but to take that off the books.”
The bill passed Saturday outlined where cities must allow guns and says people with concealed-carry licenses must be allowed to bring their guns into recreation centers as long as they are stored in lockers.
HT Guns