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New law restricts local gun control
PHOENIX (AP)--A year after vetoing a bill to bar Arizona communities from enacting their own restrictions on guns, Gov. Jane Hull has signed a compromise version enacted by the Legislature.
A response to a Tucson ban on guns in parks, the bill (HB2095) signed Monday by Hull will generally prohibit local governments from regulating possession, transportation, carrying, sale or use of guns and ammunition.
However, the bill allows local governments to prohibit people without concealed-weapons permits from having guns in designated and posted areas of parks and preserves.
Other provisions allows school districts to continue to ban guns from school property and require cities that prohibit guns in municipal buildings to provide gun owners with a safe place to leave the weapons.
Hull last April vetoed a more sweeping preemption bill, saying she objected to prohibiting local gun restrictions without instead providing any statewide regulation.
Gun-rights advocates argued that local ordinances set up a mishmash of conflicting laws that were confusing and burdensome.
"We now have a whip to keep the circus animals in city governments across Arizona under control when they attempt to attack our civil liberties and we will not hesitate to use it," said Todd Rathner, spokesman of Tucson-based Gun Owners of Arizona.
The new law will take effect in mid-July.
New law restricts local gun control
PHOENIX (AP)--A year after vetoing a bill to bar Arizona communities from enacting their own restrictions on guns, Gov. Jane Hull has signed a compromise version enacted by the Legislature.
A response to a Tucson ban on guns in parks, the bill (HB2095) signed Monday by Hull will generally prohibit local governments from regulating possession, transportation, carrying, sale or use of guns and ammunition.
However, the bill allows local governments to prohibit people without concealed-weapons permits from having guns in designated and posted areas of parks and preserves.
Other provisions allows school districts to continue to ban guns from school property and require cities that prohibit guns in municipal buildings to provide gun owners with a safe place to leave the weapons.
Hull last April vetoed a more sweeping preemption bill, saying she objected to prohibiting local gun restrictions without instead providing any statewide regulation.
Gun-rights advocates argued that local ordinances set up a mishmash of conflicting laws that were confusing and burdensome.
"We now have a whip to keep the circus animals in city governments across Arizona under control when they attempt to attack our civil liberties and we will not hesitate to use it," said Todd Rathner, spokesman of Tucson-based Gun Owners of Arizona.
The new law will take effect in mid-July.