NRA To Appeal Court Decision to Toss Suit

An attorney for the National Rifle Association (NRA) and four PIttsburgh gunowners will appeal an Allegheny County judge's decision to throw out their lawsuit challenging a Pittsburgh lost/stolen gun reporting ordinance.
Judge Stanton Wettick ruled that the NRA and and the individual gun owners lacked standing to bring the suit. Daniel Vice, Senior Attorney at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, argued in court on behalf of the city of Pittsburgh applauded the judge's decision to toss out what he called a "baseless lawsuit."

Attorney Meghan Jones-Rolla, who represents the NRA and the indvidual gunowners, called the decision "disappointing" but procedural since Judge Wettick did not address the merits of the NRA's case. Jones-Rolla says she feels good about the merits of the case because they are convinced the city of Pittsburgh violated Pennsylvania's Uniform Firearms Act in enacting this ordinance.
In June, Commonwealth Court threw out an NRA suit challenging a similar Philadelphia ordinance again on the matter of standing. But Jones-Rolla contends that the individuals who filed suit in Philadelphia did not have guns stolen whereas one of the Pittsburgh plaintiffs did and therefore should have standing in the Pittsburgh case.
Jones-Rolla says on Friday the NRA filed a petition with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for allowance to appeal Commonwealth Court's ruling in the Philadelphia case.