LA Supervisors ask county counsel to draw up stricter gun sale laws for unincorporated areas, including ban on selling some large-caliber handguns.
For the second time this summer, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Sept. 13, pursued a ban on large-caliber handguns and ammunition, and other regulations that would restrict sale of firearms in unincorporated county communities.
“We need to do whatever we can to keep our communities safe from gun violence,” said Fourth District Supervisor Janice Hahn, who co-authored the motion with First District Supervisor Hilda Solis.: raising the age from 18 to 21 to be able to buy rifles and shotguns, and banning anyone on the federal No-Fly List from purchasing firearms. But on June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 1913 restrictive concealed-carry law in New York,The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.
The National Rifle Association criticized the L.A. County board’s action in an emailed response to the Daily News after the vote. Stephen Gutowski, editor of TheReload.com, a publication about gun politics, said the county could run into legal challenges. The “Bruen will cast a lot of additional scrutiny on whatever the county wants to do,” he said.
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