Kelly J
05-28-2011, 08:17 AM
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/5609403-417/quit-your-anti-gun-tantrum-chicago.html
Quit your anti-gun tantrum, Chicago
By Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman May 27, 2011 05:38PM
The Second Amendment Foundation recently filed two important suits that, when one cuts through all the legal language, essentially challenge government hostility toward two U.S. Supreme Court rulings on the Second Amendment.
One suit is aimed at the District of Columbia, where city officials have engaged in a series of actions deliberately designed to allow the city to dance around the landmark 2008 Heller ruling that struck down the District’s handgun ban as a violation of the right to keep and bear arms.
The other case is against the State of Illinois, which sidestepped an opportunity to adopt legislation that would allow Prairie State citizens to legally carry loaded handguns for their personal protection.
The Foundation is challenging the City of Chicago’s ridiculously cumbersome handgun permit ordinance, which was written in an effort to allow the Windy City to thumb its nose at the Supreme Court’s historic ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago, which incorporated the Second Amendment to the states through the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
Read the entire story here:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/5609403-417/quit-your-anti-gun-tantrum-chicago.html
Quit your anti-gun tantrum, Chicago
By Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman May 27, 2011 05:38PM
The Second Amendment Foundation recently filed two important suits that, when one cuts through all the legal language, essentially challenge government hostility toward two U.S. Supreme Court rulings on the Second Amendment.
One suit is aimed at the District of Columbia, where city officials have engaged in a series of actions deliberately designed to allow the city to dance around the landmark 2008 Heller ruling that struck down the District’s handgun ban as a violation of the right to keep and bear arms.
The other case is against the State of Illinois, which sidestepped an opportunity to adopt legislation that would allow Prairie State citizens to legally carry loaded handguns for their personal protection.
The Foundation is challenging the City of Chicago’s ridiculously cumbersome handgun permit ordinance, which was written in an effort to allow the Windy City to thumb its nose at the Supreme Court’s historic ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago, which incorporated the Second Amendment to the states through the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
Read the entire story here:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/5609403-417/quit-your-anti-gun-tantrum-chicago.html