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Montana Attorney General Strikes Down Missoula Background Check Law | |||
| Posted January 28th, 2017 12:28 pm | |||
AMGOA Staff Montana Attorney General Tim Fox issued an opinion on Thursday that the city's controversial universal background check requirement on gun transfers is prohibited by state law. The nine page opinion came at the request of Montana House Speaker Austin Knudsen, R-Culbertson, and held Missoula's local ordinance was in violation of state preemption laws. While Fox said there are some local gun laws a city can adopt, he feels the Missoula measure went too far. "Plainly interpreted, the Montana Legislature has prohibited all forms of local government from exercising any regulatory power over the purchase, sale or transfer of firearms," wrote Fox, who more than a year before the ordinance was passed warned it "likely violates our constitutional right to keep and bear arms." http://www.guns.com/2017/01/27/montana-ag-strikes-missoulas-expanded-background-check-ordinance/ |
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Montana Attorney General Strikes Down Missoula Background Check Law | |||
