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   From: gp@dont-email.me   
      
   A national group that supports more gun regulation is backing   
   Columbus as it fights a lawsuit from gun-rights groups that sued   
   the city over firearms restrictions enacted this year.   
      
   Everytown for Gun Safety, co-founded by former New York mayor   
   Michael Bloomberg, will provide free legal assistance to the   
   city as it defends the new regulations in Franklin County Common   
   Pleas Court. It will serve as co-counsel on the case, according   
   to a news release.   
      
   “Everytown is well known for their commitment to working to   
   reduce gun violence in communities all across America. Their   
   offer to join our team on a pro bono basis will help us best   
   utilize all available resources as we work to vigorously defend   
   the laws we carefully crafted just a few months ago. We welcome   
   their support and look forward to working hand in hand with   
   their team,” City Attorney Zach Klein, a Democrat, said in a   
   statement.   
      
   Ohioans for Concealed Carry and the Buckeye Firearms Foundation   
   sued Columbus last week, saying the city overstepped its home-   
   rule powers when it created ordinances violating state law that   
   requires uniform laws across the state to regulate guns.   
      
   City officials have said they believe their ordinances do not   
   fit under the state’s so-called pre-emption law.   
      
   Ohioans for Concealed Carry and Buckeye Firearms specifically   
   challenged the city’s ban on bump stocks, which convert   
   semiautomatic weapons into near-full automatic fire, and an   
   ordinance that made carrying a gun while under disability a   
   misdemeanor.   
      
   Those two pieces were part of a broader package of gun   
   regulations city officials said would help curb violence in   
   Columbus, which set a new record in 2017 with 143 homicides.   
   Most of those were committed with guns.   
      
   “If Bloomberg’s group wishes to save the taxpayers of Columbus   
   money in this lawsuit, that is certainly their right,” said   
   Chuck LaRosa, a director with Ohioans for Concealed Carry.   
      
   Judge David E. Cain also granted a motion this week for Ohio   
   Attorney General Mike DeWine, a Republican, to join the gun-   
   rights groups in their lawsuit.   
      
   http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180629/group-tied-to-bloomberg-   
   helping-city-fight-gun-regulations-lawsuit   
       
      
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