From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CA Appeals Court Rules Unanimously In Favor of SAF Lawsuit Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 14:34:28 -0800 Second Amendment Foundation NEWS RELEASE CA APPEALS COURT RULES UNANIMOUSLY IN FAVOR OF SAF LAWSUIT In a unanimous decision today, the California Court of Appeals ruled that the City of San Franciscos handgun ban is illegal under state law, upholding a lawsuit filed by the Second Amendment Foundation and several other groups. This is a great day for gun owners and civil rights in California, said SAF Founder Alan M. Gottlieb. This is the second time we successfully fought a gun ban in San Francisco, and what this demonstrates is that the citys leadership is as horribly out of touch with the law as it seems to be out of touch with reality. SAF was joined in the lawsuit by the National Rifle Association, Law Enforcement Alliance of America, California Association of Firearms Retailers and several private citizens. In its ruling, the court held that Proposition H, approved by voters in November 2005, is invalid as preempted by state law. Gottlieb said this was essentially the same case that SAF battled on its own 23 years ago when the city, under then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein, adopted a gun ban. We urged the city well in advance to drop Proposition H from the 2005 ballot, and warned them that if they pushed the measure and it passed, we would meet them in court, Gottlieb recalled. We kept our word, along with our colleagues at the NRA, LEAA and our friends in the CAFR. This has been a horrible waste of the courts time, the citys legal resources and the taxpayers money, he added. The only reason this case went forward after the ban was struck down by the trial court is that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Board of Supervisors wanted to mandate their extremist anti-gun rights philosophy as public law. Every judge in every court that this and the earlier case went before has sided with us, Gottlieb stated. This is a battle that had to be fought, and this is a ruling that we expected from Day One of our lawsuit. This wasnt just a fight over gun rights. It was really about defeating social prejudice against gun owners; a type of bigotry made even more insidious by the fact that it was fostered and defended by a city administration whose attitude toward gun owners is anathema to American values. -END- < Please e-mail, distribute, and circulate to friends and family >Copyright © 2008 Second Amendment Foundation, All Rights Reserved.Second Amendment Foundation James Madison Building 12500 N.E. Tenth Place Bellevue, WA 98005 Voice: 425-454-7012 Toll Free: 800-426-4302 FAX: 425-451-3959 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To stop receiving these alerts, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with REMOVE in the subject line. This email was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To ensure removal, please include this address in your reply. To ensure your alerts are delivered to your inbox (and not inadvertently diverted to a bulk or junk email folder by spam filters), be sure to add [EMAIL PROTECTED] to your email address book or contact list. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
