Plan for city gun shops would limit sites, require sales be taped

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 27 may 2014 | Frank Main

[rellimpank]

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing a far-reaching ordinance that would keep gun stores out of most parts of the city and require them to videotape every sale to deter customers from buying firearms for crooks.

The ordinance is a response to a federal judge’s ruling in January that Chicago’s longtime ban on gun stores was unconstitutional.

Emanuel chose not to fight the decision, and the court gave the city six months to approve store restrictions short of a ban. The deadline is July 14.

Under the proposed ordinance, special-use zoning would keep gun stores out of 99.5 percent of Chicago, limiting them to pockets of the North, West and South sides, city officials said. The stores could not be within 500 feet of a school or park.

Store owners would have to conduct quarterly audits of their gun sales and allow police to inspect their records. They also would have to get the police to approve a security plan before they could open their doors.

[Farmer Dean]

Remove all drug related killings from the Chicago stats,what would the murder rate be then?Then remove the black on black rage killings,where would the murder rate be after that?

[kiryandil]

how about videotaping every vote that is cast in any election in chicago ?

That would be a "federal felony" ('cause EVERYTHING is, dontchaknow), and yes, Rahm & "Dick" Holder would spend as much taxpeasant money as was necessary to put the "dangerous videotapers" away for a couple of hundred-year prison terms...

[Cheerio]

Why does anyone live in these he$$holes like Chicago, New York, Los Angles, and San Franfreako?

Come down to TX or AZ and get away from these urban tyrants. Gun ownership in AZ is almost as easy as one can fine. Both Open carry and Consitutional carry prevail. Yes, we all have to live by NICS since the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Brady Act) of 1993, Public Law 103-159, was introduced.

1 U.S. States that have implemented Constitutional Carry
1.1 Alaska
1.2 Arizona
1.3 Arkansas
1.4 Vermont
1.5 Wyoming (for residents)
1.6 Oklahoma (residents of constitutional carry states)

[TurboZamboni]

Can we wear Obama masks while filling out BATF forms in the store?

[VerySadAmerican]

Have I missed something. Has there been an increase in people buying guns for crooks? Is that something like “Cash for Clunkers”?

[gundog]

Yeah...cuz crooks always pay retail + a mark-up for the straw purchaser. I’d wager yer average gangbanger pays 20 cents on the dollar to get a stolen gun, or just steals it his own bad self.

[stevie_d_64]

You can buy a gun “legitimately/legally” in Chicago???

My question is, even with this revelation...

Why would you want to now???

[stevie_d_64]

I agree...