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On Wednesday, the Arizona Senate passed Senate Bill 1122, which prohibits local governments from requiring background checks for private party transfers. The billis considered to be a legislative repercussion against the city of Tucson. In the past, Tucson has destroyed every gun it seized, something gun-rights activists says could violate state law.

Because of Tucsons position on guns, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich sued Tucson under a state law that allows the state to pull funding from local governments whose policies contradict those of the states. In other words, Tucson has one option: repeal the ordinance or face significant funding shortages. Losing state funding would cost the city of Tucson $170 million.

The Tucson city council refused to repeal the ordinance. While the issue plays out in court, the council has decided to pause the gun destruction program.

According to Brnovich, gun control is a state-level issue, not a local issue.

SB 1122 is being considered the legislative remedy to the Tucson problem.

From guns.com:

This is over-wrought, he said Tuesday during session. This does not allow local cities or counties to do any type of a background check for any exchange of property including cars. This is being decided before the state Supreme Court right now so lets not rush it. We should not be deicing for a city whats best for the public safety of its citizens.

The case Farley referenced pits Tucson against the state over its destruction of seized or surrendered firearms. The policy preempts state law which requires such firearms be sold, though a court decision in favor of Tucson would quash SB 1122, Farley said.

The city of Tucson is arguing that gun regulations are a matter of local control, he said. I think we should wait to see what the court decides before we make any more laws that could be invalidated.

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When asked about policing and how to make neighborhoods safer, Legend said, I think we do have to do something about guns. We shouldnt live in a society so awash with guns that [it] makes the cops fearful and makes them suspicious of everybody.

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The Breakfast Club host DJ Envy said, You travel a lot. Youve been to Toronto, youve been to Japan, and you notice when you go to a lot of these countries, people are not allowed to have guns. Legend interjected, Yes, and their murder rates are way lower. Their suicide rates are lower, too, because when people have guns, they end up using them.

Envy asked, So banning guns in full, youre saying?

Legend responded:

Im not saying that necessarily would work. But if we look at Australia, they did something over there. They had a few mass shootings, and they said, You know what? Were going to take a pretty significant approach to reducing the amount of guns on the streets. And it worked. They didnt have another mass shooting, their murder rate went down, and we wont do it here because we got the Second Amendment. We got the NRA thats going to lobby against it. And maybe it wont be constitutional to do that, but at the end of the day, it actually worked. And if we wantto talk about what makes us safer, that would make us safer.

First, Australias gun confiscation scheme was fashioned as a gun buybacka mandatory buybackwhere peoplewith guns the government wished to ban were required to turn inthoseguns. The scheme resulted in the confiscation of somewhere between 650,000 and 1,000,000 firearms during the years 1996-1997. (Figures vary.) On September 13, 2016, Breitbart News reported that Australia is considering a new body of gun laws to fight the rising gun crime that is marring Melbourne, Australia, and much of Victoria. In fact, Melbourne has had more than one shooting a week since January 2015.

But the Australian model is Legends solution?

Second, part of what Australia is now considering to fight gun crime is an amnesty whereby criminals will have a period of time to turn their guns in without penalty. Ironically, during Legends appearance on The Breakfast Club, he was told a lot of people do not turn in their guns during buybacks because they are afraid that the gunand the crimes committed with itwill somehow be traced back to them. Legend responded by suggesting some type of amnesty period to get guns off the street.

So he is pushing the Australian gun buyback that did not prevent criminals from having guns in the first place and is also pushing the second phase of that failed policy: amnesty for criminals with guns.

Legend also blamed Chicagos gun crime on Indiana, claiming that criminals in Chicago go to Indiana to buy their guns. This opened the door for him to criticize the differences in gun laws from state to state in the U.S. He said, Wed have to do something nationally that was much more pervasive to get rid of guns.

AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

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Re: Column, Feb. 14, Why did the Constitution need the Second Amendment?

With guns being as much of a problem as they are, I am interested in learning more about the matter and what can be done about it. The history set forth in the recent column in your paper by Dr. Mark Hopkins is the best that I have read and provides an excellent starting point in understanding the matter.

I personally feel that the Second Amendment only permits gun ownership when a citizen is an active member of an organized (controlled and structured) militia. I think the Second Amendment is currently being misinterpreted.

My training in the USMC taught me that a gun in the hands of an untrained person is nearly worthless as a tool of self-defense and provides only a feeble and false sense of security to the untrained. The present interpretation of this amendment not only provides the public with a false sense of security, but also is causing the loss of freedom and many unnecessary deaths.

People now have to be careful about when and where they go. Laws need to be enacted that protect citizens from the use of guns and the sale of inappropriate weapons (hunting guns excluded). These laws should include search and seizure of weapons that are possessed in the public domain along with stiff fines for violation.

We need a Wyatt Earp. Where is he now? You may remember he required that people check their guns into the sheriffs office when they came to town (Wichita, Kansas) in the late-1800s and that stopped the bloodshed there.

This guest column is from Hugh Taylor, a snowbird from Overland Park, Kansas.

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