The Anchorage Assembly is set to hear public testimony Tuesday night on two proposed ordinances that could significantly reshape local gun laws, placing new responsibilities on parents and gun owners, while at the same time running afoul of existing state laws.
The first proposed ordinance, introduced by Assemblywoman Karen Bronga, would hold parents or guardians criminally liable if a child in their care brings a gun or other deadly weapon to school grounds or school-related events. Introduced as a response to growing concerns over youth access to firearms, the proposal stipulates that liability applies if the weapon was originally in the possession of the adult.
Click here to read: Ordinance No. AO 2025-25, an ordinance of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 8.25.060 to expand principal liability to parents and guardians of minors possessing deadly weapons on school grounds or at school functions. Assembly Member Bronga.
Critics argue that the broad language — potentially extending liability to foster parents, grandparents, or even temporary caregivers like babysitters — could unfairly penalize adults for actions beyond their control.
The second ordinance under consideration requires gun owners to report a lost or stolen firearm to law enforcement within 48 hours of discovering it missing. Modeled after similar laws in other states, this proposal goes far beyond the federal mandate reporting for licensed firearms dealers.
Click here to read: Ordinance No. AO 2025-28, an ordinance of the Anchorage Assembly amending Anchorage Municipal Code Section 8.25.070 to require the report of lost or stolen firearms within 48 hours of discovery. Assembly Member Bronga.
One of the issues these ordinances face is that, by state law, local gun laws cannot be more restrictive than state laws.
Citizen and activist Cale Green produced a video explaining some of the problems with these ordinances:
The meeting, held on the ground floor of the Loussac Library, starts at 6 pm and usually runs until 11 pm.
Death by a thousand cuts. The Assembly is murdering success in Anchorage like a slow dripping faucet. I can hear it now.
Perhaps you have something backwards – unless gun laws are the exception: local ordinances cannot be LESS restrictive than State Law. These ordinances will fail to produce the intended result – rather they will further radicalize those who dream of using firearms as a means to an end. Every school should have a mandatory firearms safety course.
This group of brain dead want to be moralist but are too clueless to have a logical thought, Gun laws simply do nothing to stop crime. That is liberty being attacked by cowards with no skin in the game.
I like listening to you on the radio but I don’t agree with you on that one. Show me a kid who brings a gun to school and I’ll show you a gangbanger teaching their child how to trick, trap, rob and kill people.
Under existing state law if your mentally ill, homicidal punk takes your gun to shoot people, you could be charged, at a minimum with manslughter:
AS 11.41.120, and is a class A felony.
(a) A person commits the crime of manslaughter if the person
(1) intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causes the death of another person under circumstances not amounting to murder in the first or second degree;
Not keeping a deadly weapon out of the hands of a kid intent on doing harm is grounds for prosecution.
If you can’t do this, you probably don’t have an IQ high enough to where you should even own, or shoot a gun.
Bunch of sick foul delusional minded so called do gooder control freaks. Go get Effed, tired of these and all the other controlling thieves in this world.
All i can see is here is full accountability and responsibility of being a gun owner regardless if you are the parent, foster, or adopted parent. We have and own guns, and we teach our kids the responsibility and the safety of owning one. We also take a safety precautions of locking them up to ensure limited access to it. It starts from the home, as an adult we have to teach discipline and righteousness to our kids.
The People’s Democratic Republic of Anchorage, or the Anchorage CCP. Mail-in balloting has consequences.
(Satire alert:) Let’s not leave out cars, trucks, sports equipment, dodgy food, pets with teeth, …
Another gun grab, in coordination with state legislative efforts.
How about penalties for parents who force their children to become transgender?
How about penalties for government agency officials and schools that don’t let parents do the parenting?
How about penalties for child abuse when the child’s parents allow irreversible physical and mental damage to be done to a young, impressionable child? A kid cannot purchase a pack of smokes or alcohol until their 21 years old for a reason. But letting them decide they want the breasts or pecker chopped off, get injections of permanently altering chemicals is okay? It’s not for the child to decide, it’s the parents who have the final say, AND THAT’S CHILD ABUSE.
The costume she is wearing tells me all I need to know about her mental illness she is displaying at a public meeting. (God only knows where her mind is the rest of the time)
It also takes voters with a mental deficiency to elect her and give her the power to control others.
Concubine costume? If I had a few conc’s they wouldn’t be dressed up in whatever that giant sanitary pad looking thing is. Nobody wants to give that a good rogering. i’d bet a nickel she misunderstands a lot of other things, too.
Whoops. Looks like Ms. Bronga is a full on nutter. Somebody should’ve whispered in her ear that DEI is a ‘welcome to 2020’ thing and rapidly falling from fashion.
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How about no.
Suppose this could be retroactive to July-2014, whereby Alexandra Ellis ran over Jeff Dusenbury?
… hit and run bicyclist
… underage driver intoxicated
… left the scene of the crime without rendering aid to the victim
… spent only 100+ days in jail
“Criminally liable”?
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Don’t have to read “Violent felon once convicted of murder hunted down by agencies and brought to justice again” too many times to wonder who takes this seriously.
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If Anchorage Assembly were, like, serious about the kiddies-and-guns thing, wouldn’t Sulte pass a tax against it, wouldn’t the Peoples Code Enforcement Bureau totally shut it down just like they did with churches and Kriners Diner?
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Why not look at the bright side, at least the little gangbangers show up, unlike ten percent of their school mates who don’t… afraid to show up unarmed, maybe?
I always thought that parents were already legally responsible for their children and the actions of their children up to age 18. Is this not true? if it is true, then this bill is redundant.
Just ANOTHER reason why I’ll be exiting this leftist/communist shithole when I retire, after living here 45 YEARS!
Mit – Same, after 49 years, sadly. Same.
Does this mean we should hold court justices accountable for repeat offenders and criminals?
I find it interesting that activists posing as leftist politicians can never seem to hold those who commit crimes accountable for their own actions but instead always seek to place blame on someone else. I guess it comes with not having any personal responsibility or self awareness. Psychological projection at its finest.
Why are assembly members allowed to act like clowns when they should be fixing the damn roads?!
I also find it interesting the Karens who fear a Handmaids Tale the most are the ones who keep bringing it into the collective consciousness. They really must have a deep desire to be subjugated in their twisted fantasies, otherwise they would not be putting themselves into slave outfits. When the devils show you who they are, believe them. Stop watching Netflix. Holy moly.
Let’s see. How many of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights does this violate?
The 6th Amendment, definitely. Charging someone with a crime based on the actions of another person. The accused has a fundamental human right to hear the charges against them, and confront their accuser. Assuming guilt clearly violates the 6th.
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The 5th, no doubt. The parents are accused of… what exactly? Their child did something stupid, and they are indicted for those actions?
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The 4th Amendment will have to be violated in order to demonstrate the parents hold any responsibility for their child’s actions. And, how will a warrant get issued for a person who did not commit the crime?
Another item.
Tyrants and dictators always push to legalize drugs and simultaneously try to restrict the people from possessing the means of self defense.
The first is a way for the government to control the people, the second is a way for the people to control the government. Let the Assembly get away with this, and it can lead to the rise of a tyrant. (oh, wait. Too late.)
Private sector (with constitutional rights).is a minority in the mob of Anchorage
Report infringers of all rights to Kash Patel using a complaint format
Who, when, where, did what, why. Cite law republic IS Constitution. If one hundred percent of a bureaucratic, girl mob in the room conspires to infringe rights and babysit their neighbors it is still infringement in a time of war. Check for treasonous intent?
Maybe I’m confused, but I frequently see articles and comments here regarding the breakdown of social order and escalating crime. The proposed ordinance to hold parents responsible when their child brings a gun to school should then be celebrated by this group, no? It seems like most comments are against it? It’s a restoration of the Rule of Law
Rule of law says the person committing the crime is responsible for it. It also says the person that was not involved in the crime should not be criminally charged for the crime.
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Now, if the parents are negligent, charge them with negligence. But, to assume the parents are at fault for teh actions of a child is the opposite of the rule of law.
It’s interesting how they believe this would solve something. Already, if a kid were to bring a gun into school and it was discovered, it would be against the law and the school would be notifying the parents immediately and depending on the amount of negligence by the parents, they would see ramifications. What parent would leave their guns out irresponsibly but than change their behavior because of this ordinance? “ooo I better put that away. Before, I wouldn’t have cared that much if my kid brought a gun to school, but now I, ME, could get in trouble. Wouldn’t want that. I’m irresponsible with my kids, but not when it comes to following city ordinances.”
It solves a very important problem to the leftists running the city.
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What this will do is force law abiding gun owners to either lock up their guns so tight that they are basically useless in a home invasion situations, or they will get rid of them entirely. The risk of a felony level criminal charge simply because their pre-teen child wants to show off in school is too great.
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Net result. A gun free paradise like the south side of Chicago and Somalia.
Even if you don’t agree you do not have authority over another free adult man in the the US. You just do not have that authority when we are equal and we are. What you do not have in your own authority you cannot delegate what you do not have to another agent or manufactured “agency” lacking expressed within the US Constitution. You have limits per the US Constitution. You need to learn that at some point. If you have a strong desire for more authority sire more children to YOUR economic unit. Please stay out of mine. Thanks so much.
What I just said is an example of “securing and defending” the US Constitution which is what elected servants have a written oath on file to do as prerequisite to pausing his/her rights to receive a stipend from the public trust funds in lieu. I have no such oath anywhere on file; I am a free American.