Following Tuesday’s Montana Supreme Court 5-0 decision to strike down the Missoula City Council’s proposed mandatory universal background check ordinance, KGVO spoke to City Councilor Bryan von Lossberg, who originally sponsored the ordinance, about his reaction.
On Thursday, Missoula District Judge Robert L. ‘Dusty’ Deschamps issued a ruling that countermanded the Montana Attorney General’s opinion that nullified a gun registration ordinance by the City of Missoula.
Montana Speaker of the House Austin Knudsen announced today, September 28, that he is in the process of requesting an official opinion from Montana Attorney General Tim Fox on the constitutionality of Missoula’s new background check ordinance.
Once again on Monday night, the Missoula City Council chambers overflowed with people both in favor of and opposed to a proposed ordinance that would require background checks for private sales within the city limits.
Four people are now under arrest and will be charged with deliberate homicide in a drug related stabbing of a Kalispell man whose body was found in a river near Creston.