Paul Eckstein was quoted in the Arizona Daily Star article, "City Continues to Argue Gun Case Should be Heard in Superior Court," regarding the challenge to a 2016 law that says the state can withhold millions of dollars in shared revenue from Tucson if the city continues to destroy seized firearms.

Paul Eckstein wrote the case should be heard in the Arizona Supreme Court and that the state law should be ruled unconstitutional.

Too much is at stake for Arizona cities, wrote Eckstein, who represents the League of Arizona Cities and Towns as well as the cities of Phoenix and Yuma.

“Those threats are too catastrophic to go unheeded, because even an unrealized threat of withheld revenue has serious consequences for a city or town,” Eckstein wrote in his filing. “To end these untenable threats, and to ensure the continued right to self-government enshrined in our Constitution, this Court should take jurisdiction.”