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After Philadelphia recreation employee Tiffany Fletcher was shot and killed at work last month, Mayor Jim Kenney banned guns at city pools and rec centers.<\/p>\n
Less than a week later, his rule was thrown out by a Philadelphia court.<\/p>\n
The judge who issued the decision seemed to do so begrudgingly. In his opinion, Judge Joshua Roberts wrote he was \u201cduty-bound to uphold the law\u201d \u2014 referencing Pennsylvania\u2019s Uniform Firearms Act, which says Pa.\u00a0municipalities can\u2019t enact their own<\/a>\u00a0gun regulations.<\/p>\n Roberts strongly suggested the state Supreme Court should revisit that law. He quoted another Pa. judge, Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter, who\u00a0wrote earlier this year<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthe overwhelming blight of gun violence occurring in the city of Philadelphia\u2026 call[s] for a recognition that local conditions may well justify more severe restrictions than are necessary statewide.\u201d<\/p>\n The decision tossing the park firearms ban was a victory for the organization that challenged the mayor\u2019s order: Gun Owners of America.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of the anti-gun municipalities across the commonwealth need to understand the message from this case,\u201d Val Finnell, GOA\u2019s Pennsylvania director, said in a statement that contained a not-so-veiled threat. \u201cGun Owners of America will not tolerate illegal bans, prohibitions, or restrictions on the Second Amendment in violation of Pennsylvania law. We stopped Mayor Kenney in less than a week, and we will do the same to you.\u201d…<\/p>\n Read more at BillyPenn<\/a><\/p>\n