(The Center Square) – Ohio’s capital city continues to try legal avenues to allow it to enforce its gun laws against a lawsuit challenging those regulations.
Columbus wants the Ohio Supreme Court to reverse a decision of a lower court to place a preliminary injunction on its gun regulations passed in 2022 that makes it illegal to possess gun magazines that hold 30 or more rounds of ammunition.
In April, a Delaware County judge granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed by Columbus-based policy group The Buckeye Institute, stopping enforcement of the law.
It’s the city’s third appeal after two others were denied.
“After being denied its requests to lift the preliminary injunction in Doe v. Columbus, Columbus is now pinning its hopes on the Ohio Supreme Court,” said David C. Tryon, the director of litigation at The Buckeye Institute. “Asking the court to let the city enforce a law – making criminals of The Buckeye Institute’s clients and countless other Columbus residents – that violates the Ohio and U.S. constitutions.”