FL - Cities challenging state preemption laws

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FL - Cities challenging state preemption laws

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Headline: In Florida, Cities Challenge State On Gun Regulation Laws
Link: https://www.npr.org/2018/04/02/59804209 ... ation-laws" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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In Florida, only the state is allowed to regulate firearms. Local government officials who ignore that law — posting signs prohibiting guns in city parks, for example — face stiff penalties. They include removal from office, a $5,000 fine officials must pay from their personal funds and lawsuits from any person or group affected.
Coral Gables is now taking another approach. It's joining with at least eight other cities to challenge the penalties in a law that preempts cities' ability to regulate guns. It's a lawsuit initiated by Daniel Stermer, the mayor of Weston, a community about 20 miles from Parkland.
The penalties targeting local officials were added in 2011 to a law that already preempted cities and counties from regulating guns. NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer helped write it and get it passed.
Looks like cities in FL are trying to remove the teeth from the state preemption laws. Also, those penalties seem more effective than OH has?

Also, they're coining yet another phrase: "high velocity semiautomatic rifles" :roll:
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