CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to take up Cleveland's appeal of a decision that struck down a gun offender registry and several gun ordinances approved in 2015.

The decision lets stand an April 2017 ruling by the Ohio 8th District Court of Appeals. That ruling held as invalid a package of ordinances proposed by Mayor Frank Jackson and passed by City Council in the wake of a flurry of gun violence in 2014 and 2015.

Jackson on Wednesday expressed disappointment that the Supreme Court would not hear the case.

"I disagree with the Ohio Supreme Court's decision not to hear the city of Cleveland's appeal to uphold its own gun laws," Jackson said in a statement. "The laws the city proposed and that were enacted by our City Council are reasonable and do not conflict with any state gun regulations."

The laws were enacted, the mayor said, as an effort to provide for the safety of residents. The Supreme Court's decision will weaken cities' home rule abilities and efforts to protect citizens, he said.

"Local municipalities are the most familiar with - and the most impacted by-- the public safety needs of its citizens because we deal with the results of crime and violence every day," Jackson said.

"In 2017, the City of Cleveland had 130 homicides and 112 of them were a result of gun violence," he said. "We are reminded, through senseless tragedies, of the need to remove and keep weapons from the hands of those who should not have them."

Legislation enacted by the Ohio General Assembly limited the ability of cities and villages to enact gun laws that go further than state statutes. The appellate court's April ruling struck down all but two of Cleveland's laws -- a restriction on selling to people who are intoxicated and a prohibition on giving guns to a minor. They were deemed to mirror state law and not overly restrictive.

Ohioans for Concealed Carry had filed a constitutional challenge against the ordinance days after it was passed by City Council.

When the appellate court ruled last April, Ohioans for Concealed Carry President Jeff Garvas described the decision as "unsurprising."

Before the city's legislation was enacted, Garvas' group had warned Cleveland that it would sue to challenge its constitutionality.

"Cleveland's idea that they can legislate away the criminal use of firearms at the expense of law-abiding individuals is a flawed concept that has been proven wrong time and time again," Garvas said in April.

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