The city council in San Diego, CA is hellbent on passing an unconstitutional law(IMHO) which would require all guns in a home to be locked up or disabled. The Washington DC government had a similar law for years and the DC Appeals court struck it down, and later the Heller decision at SCOTUS buried the idea of disarming citizens by requiring guns at home to be locked up and disabled. The legal counsel for San Diego surely must have warned them that SCOTUS already struck down requirements like the one they are passing.
What say you? clearly unconstitutional?The San Diego City Council voted six to two Monday for an ordinance saying gun owners must lock up their firearms or disable them in the home.
Fox 5 reports that the council’s six Democrat members all voted for the gun control, which is designed to force firearms to be locked up or be disabled even if no minors are present in the home.
ABC 10 reports that gun owners cannot legally store their firearms in just any lockbox, but they must be in a “Department of Justice-approved lockbox.” No indication was given for how much a DOJ approved lockbox will cost.
Opponents of the ordinance pointed out that locking up a gun or disabling it necessarily adds to the time necessary to have a given firearm ready for a self-defense situation. NBC 7 reports that “the California Rifle and Pistol Association wrote a letter to the council last week, saying the ordinance is not enforceable, unconstitutional.”