SAN FRANCISCO (May 19, 2009)–The National Rifle Association has filed suit against the city of San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom and Police Chief Heather Fong, taking aim at city laws it contends violate the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
The NRA filed the lawsuit in federal court Friday on behalf of six residents and the San Francisco Veteran Police Officers Association. It challenges three provisions of the city’s police code that it says interfere with their right “to defend themselves and others … within their own homes.”
The provisions are:
— A requirement that handguns in San Francisco homes be kept in a locked cabinet or disabled with a trigger lock.
— A ban on the sale of fragmenting bullets – a particularly deadly type of ammunition.
— A city ordinance that prohibits the discharge of firearms within city limits. The law has been on the books since 1938, and is seldom, if ever, enforced, according to city officials.
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