Mayor Alan Webber has long championed ideas to confront the scourge of gun violence, from designating certain city-owned properties as gun-free zones to mulling a tax on ammunition.
Now Webber is pushing a proposal to repeal a provision of the state constitution that prevents local governments from regulating firearms as they so choose.
As part of a resolution establishing the city’s priorities for the upcoming 30-day legislative session, Webber is calling on the Legislature to place a constitutional referendum on the ballot asking voters statewide to remove a preemption statute that states “no municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.”