Gun Control & RKBA

The city and county level is the wrong level of government to restrict guns and ammunition. It should be a set of laws that are uniform through the entire state. Pennsylvania already has a state-level preemption law that forbids local governments from doing any gun control other than enforcing the State laws. That is more fair to the citizens of the state who should not be expected to research the local city and county gun laws of every jurisdiction they pass through when they travel. Just going from home to work and to the local shopping mall and back might involve going through two different counties and three or four cities or villages.

A state wide restriction on certain fire arms would also fit well with the federal law which only allows residents of one state to buy a long gun (meaning something bigger than a handgun) in another state if (and only if) that is legal under the laws of both of those states. This means the Feds have an enforcement mechanism already in place to prevent people from Pennsylvania going into gun stores in other states and buying guns that would be illegal to sell in Pennsylvania itself .

There is no corresponding federal law that demands observance of city or county gun restrictions, and it would be unenforceable anyway. People who choose to ignore that law could go anywhere else in Pennsylvania and buy the guns and ammo that they cannot get in Pittsburgh.