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Comparative Constitutional Law Keyed to Sutton, 5th Ed.
Bass v. City of Edmonds
Citation:
508 P.3d 172 (2022)Facts
After a mass shooting at nearby Marysville Pilchuck High School, the Edmonds City Council engaged in robust debate and adopted Ordinance 4120, codified as Edmonds City Code chapter 5.26, requiring residents to safely store firearms when not in use. The ordinance contains two operative provisions: a storage provision requiring firearms to be secured by locking devices rendering them inaccessible to unauthorized persons, and an unauthorized access provision imposing liability when prohibited persons obtain access to firearms. Violations carry civil fines. The plaintiffs, individual gun owners who testified they keep firearms unsecured and unlocked even when children are present in their homes, challenged the ordinance as preempted by state law. Around the same time as the ordinance’s enactment, Washington voters enacted Initiative 1639, which criminalizes unsafe firearm storage in more limited circumstances than the Edmonds ordinance.
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