Cherry v. Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that state legislature intended to preempt city, town and county firearms laws
• recognizing that state legislature intended to preempt city, town and county firearms laws
• “penal nature” of preemptive firearm statute suggests it was enacted to prevent “conflicting local criminal codes”
• if the intent of a statute is not clear, the court may resort to statutory construction, including a consideration of legislative history
• courts should avoid unlikely results in construing statutes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).