City to enforce law on lost guns

[Squatch]

I have serious doubts as to the enforcability of this law, but hey...if it makes the city of Philly feel better, it must be good, right? :sarcasm:

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Mayor Nutter and City Council are to announce today that police are poised to begin enforcing a new and fiercely disputed law that requires gun owners to report within 24 hours firearms that are lost or stolen.

Enforcement would actually begin in 30 days. Nutter is expected to set out during a news conference today a monthlong grace period in which owners of lost and stolen guns could come forward beyond the 24-hour limit that a new City Council ordinance requires, according to the mayor's office.

That ordinance was one of five signed by Nutter in April. In addition to establishing criminal penalties for those who fail to contact police within 24 hours of discovering their firearms missing, the laws also establish definitions and penalties for assault weapons, limit handgun purchases to one a month, and restrict gun ownership from unstable individuals or those subject to an order of protection.

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