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But I doubt if it will ever be enforced.

Currently the city of Tempe spits in the face of gun owners with it's laws which make guns illegal in city buildings, but don't tell the owners that state law requires the city to check the owner's guns as required by state law.

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Allhands: These gun laws won't end the world

Joanna Allhands, The Republic | azcentral.com 1:37 p.m. MST May 11, 2016

Gov. Doug Ducey has signed legislation allowing guns closer to schools and penalizing cities with gun laws stricter than the state's. Wochit

There's been a lot of hand-wringing over the two gun bills Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law.

Relax, guys. This was a pretty tame year for gun legislation.

Bill 1: Cities didn't have that power

The first new law -- Senate Bill 1266 -- defines penalties for cities and counties that enact gun laws that conflict with state law. Yes, the penalties are pretty harsh -- up to $50,000 if cities or counties willfully disregarded state law. (I suspect that's the real reason why Ducey signed it, btw. It fits his theme this year of punishing cities for passing laws state leaders don't like.)

That said, Arizona law already forbid cities and counties from passing laws or taxes on "the transportation, possession, carrying, sale, transfer, purchase, acquisition, gift, devise, storage, licensing, registration, discharge or use of firearms or ammunition or any firearm or ammunition components or related accessories in this state."

So, it's not like cities are losing any kind of control here. They already didn't have it.

Bill 2: Guns still outlawed on campus

The second bill Ducey signed -- House Bill 2338 -- allows people to carry guns on public roads and sidewalks adjacent to school campuses, so people aren't unwittingly breaking the law while driving or taking a walk. It also removes the requirement that any guns seized at a school must be destroyed. They can be sold instead.

Some worry that this incremental allowance will lead to more school violence. They liken it to other guns-on-campus bills that never made it off previous governors' desks. But state law already allows adults to keep unloaded guns in their cars on campus. And it remains a crime to remove that gun from a car on campus, loaded or not.

Bill 3: No other state signed on

Finally, the lone gun bill Ducey vetoed -- HB 2524 -- is a strange one, and I suspect few people in the firearms community will be upset that it died.

Federal law requires people in different states to transfer firearms through a licensed dealer, who must conduct a background check to complete the transfer. The compact would have prohibited states from enacting any laws above what is in federal law -- but two unlicensed people in Arizona already can transfer firearms without going through a dealer. And no other states had signed on to the compact.

So, I'm not sure what was the point.