The City CONCEDED its ordinance violates state law.
Memphis admitted that every line of its handgun-carry ban, vehicle-storage rule, so-called “assault rifle” ban, and red-flag scheme is 100% illegal under Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-1314. (Order pp. 3, 9–11) The Judge called the ordinance “DEAD AS A DOORNAIL.” The Chancellor wrote that “The Ordinance and those who proposed it engaged in ‘virtue signaling,’” but “the Ordinance is as dead as a proverbial doornail as a matter of Tennessee law.” (Order p. 6) Simply put, the Memphis ordinance is entirely unenforceable. [More]
So what will hold them accountable, make them pay, and discourage future in-your-face infringements?
“So what will hold them accountable, make them pay, and discourage future in-your-face infringements?”
A preemption law like Florida’s where officials who violate the law can be removed from office by the Governor, fined, and have to pay the fines and court costs out of their own pockets, not out of taxpayer funds.
States are either serious about preemption or they’re doing a bit of virtue signalling of their own.
Exactly.