{"id":86607,"date":"2022-10-12T07:37:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T12:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=86607"},"modified":"2022-10-12T07:37:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T12:37:57","slug":"86607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=86607","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Lawsuit Targets Glendale, CA Over Gun Ban On Public Property<\/a><\/p>\n

California \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0-(AmmoLand.com)-<\/a>\u00a0The Second Amendment Foundation and its partners today filed a federal lawsuit asking for declaratory and injunctive relief against the City of Glendale, Calif., its police chief and city clerk. The case is known as\u00a0CRPA v. Glendale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joining SAF are the\u00a0Gun Owners of California<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0California Rifle & Pistol Association<\/a>. They are represented by attorneys Chuck Michel, Joshua Robert Dale, Konstadinos T. Moros of Long Beach, and Donald Kilmer of Caldwell, Idaho. In addition to the City of Glendale, the defendants are Police Chief Carl Povilaitis and City Clerk Suzie Abajian in their official capacities. The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Western Division.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe City of Glendale\u2019s municipal code generally bans possession of firearms and ammunition on any city property, with no exception for citizens with concealed carry permits,\u201d said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. \u201cThis ban applies not just to city property, but also publicly-controlled property or public-affiliated private property, with the only exceptions being streets, roads and sidewalks. Such restrictions relegate the right to keep and bear arms to the status of a strictly-regulated government privilege.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur lawsuit is blunt,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe Glendale ordinance is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has made it clear that the right to keep and bear arms for personal protection extends outside the home. As we note in our complaint, the burden is on the city to prove that all areas falling within the definition of \u2018city property\u2019 are so-called \u2018sensitive places,\u2019 and they cannot do it.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As explained in the 24-page complaint, the city has 47 parks and recreation facilities (including four community centers, one golf course, three soccer fields, and sixteen ball fields), playgrounds, eight public libraries, three downtown parking structures and other city-owned or operated parking lots, the Glendale Civic Auditorium and civic center complex, a youth center, an emergency center, undefined \u201copen spaces\u201d and \u201cplazas,\u201d and an unknowable amount of properties in the possession of private companies under contract with the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat broad definition essentially turns much if not most of the city into a gun-free zone where Second Amendment rights do not exist, and that simply doesn\u2019t pass the smell test,\u201d Gottlieb stated. \u201cWe are hopeful the court quickly recognizes this and grants our request.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawsuit Targets Glendale, CA Over Gun Ban On Public Property California \u2013\u00a0-(AmmoLand.com)-\u00a0The Second Amendment Foundation and its partners today filed a federal lawsuit asking for declaratory and injunctive relief against the City of Glendale, Calif., its police chief and city clerk. The case is known as\u00a0CRPA v. Glendale. Joining SAF are the\u00a0Gun Owners of California\u00a0and … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-goobermint","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86608,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86607\/revisions\/86608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}