The state Legislature should pass a proposed bill to block municipalities from attempting to adopt and enforce their own restrictions on gun ownership.

An approach where different communities are allowed to pass their own, unique gun control ordinances will only lead to disparate policies that Pennsylvanians who legally own and carry firearms will have difficulty following.

“Where so many different ordinances are allowed to exist, citizens with no criminal intent are placed in danger of breaking restrictions where they don’t know they exist,” state Rep. Matt Dowling, R-Uniontown, said over the weekend.

Gov. Tom Wolf has said in the past he would veto similar legislation, saying then that “Pennsylvanians deserve safety.”

But a better way to deliver safety to Pennsylvanians is to have police enforce existing state and federal laws — not divert their time and resources with gun-control ordinances that stop at municipal lines a few miles away at most. The better way to make Pennsylvania safer is by allowing police to focus investigations on violent criminals — not otherwise law-abiding Pennsylvanians who can’t navigate different standards in the state’s more than 2,500 municipalities.

A municipal end-run for gun control won’t make Pennsylvania safer, and hopefully a veto-proof majority of the state Legislature recognizes that.