Federal judge strikes down Chicago gun law

The Hill ^ | 1/6/2014 | Rebecca Shabad

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A federal district court judge in Chicago ruled Monday that the city’s ban on gun sales is unconstitutional.

In a 35-page opinion, Judge Edmond E. Chang from the Northern District of Illinois wrote that the city’s law “goes too far.” Chang was appointed by President Obama in 2010. 

Chang delayed the effect of his ruling, however, in order to allow the city time to respond. In his opinion, he acknowledged the city’s “stark reality” of thousands of shooting victims and murders each year.  

“But on the other side of this case is another feature of government.: certain fundamental rights are protected by the Constitution, put outside government’s reach, including the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense under the Second Amendment,” he wrote. “This right must also include the right to acquire a firearm.”

Currently, Chicago bans the sale of handguns within city limits. The ban was imposed when the city enacted new regulations after the Supreme Court struck down the city’s handgun ban in 2010.

In September, a committee of Chicago’s city council members amended its laws to allow concealed weapons. This change reflected the law Illinois lawmakers passed last year allowing people to carry concealed guns.

[stevie_d_64]

The reason Heller and McDonald didn’t totally fix the issue was how the court forced the way the “question” was asked by the plantiff’s...

That is key to any judicual review by that court...

It resolved a few things, but it left the implementation open, and no impetus for any municipality to remove those infringements on its citizens, with no penalties to them for not doing so...

So what is it you think is going to make an impact???

They are hedging their bets that the people are cowards, and that there is NO fight left in anyone worth worrying about...