Both sides hail ruling about Philly gun ordinances.

From the ASSOCIATED PRESS:

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a mixed verdict this week on Philadelphia’s gun ordinances, allowing both sides to claim at least a partial victory in the running battle over the city’s efforts to issue its own firearms laws.

The set of decisions issued Monday means the city may continue to require people to report lost or stolen firearms within 24 hours. The rulings also allow the city to develop regulations to enforce two other laws: one that lets police temporarily seize guns from those considered to pose a risk to themselves or others and another that bans gun ownership for anyone subject to a protection-from-abuse order.

But the high court also let stand a Philadelphia judge’s decision that threw out ordinances that limited people to buying one gun a month and banned assault weapons.

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