A gun rights group and a gun owner have filed a lawsuit against San Jose for newly passed ordinance requiring citizens to obtain liability insurance.
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo addressed the fee in a conference Monday, ahead of the vote that happened Tuesday night."Certainly the Second Amendment protects every citizen's right to own a gun," Liccardo said,"It does not require taxpayers to subsidize that right."
Liccardo says that criminal gun use isn't the only focus of the new law, citing studies that show high rates of suicide by gun and gun inflicted injuries. "The fact that the city of San Jose is forcing citizens exercising a constitutional right to bear arms, particularly in their homes taxing that and giving the tax money to nonprofits to then use it for speech that we all know is going to be used to criticize that very constitutional right. That is a violation of the First Amendment," Dhillon said.
"The ordinance specifies that the money will not be used for litigation or lobbying related activities used by the nonprofit organization," said Tamarah Prevost, a partner with Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy LLP"So that is one specific carve out that that is made."
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