When Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray told his community he wouldn’t cave to a legal challenge and repeal the city’s gun laws, a former mayor offered $1,000 to a legal defense fund backing the decision. Gray matched the donation, and before long “people were coming out of the woodwork” to support the city’s legal defense, he said.
The city pooled nearly $20,000 to fight a lawsuit brought by the National Rifle Association, which found standing under Act 192, enacted in 2014, to sue Pennsylvania municipalities over firearms ordinances.
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