There is amazing news from Chicago.
The National Rifle Association is claiming victory today after the Chicago City Council tentatively approved a rewrite of the city’s onerous gun laws that were passed in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the McDonald v. Chicago case (2010), which effectively overturned Chi-Town’s ban on handguns.
While the full City Council will officially vote on the changes on Wednesday, it’s believed that they’ll stick because of the state’s recently passed concealed carry law, a “shall-issue” statue that allows law-abiding citizens to carry concealed firearms in public provided they pass a background check, pay a $150 fee and take a 16-hour firearms training course.
NRA lobbyist Todd Vandermyde called it a “great day for gun owners” in the Windy City.
“Mayor Daley’s pinnacle handgun ordinance after the loss in the McDonald decision is now, for all intents and purposes, gutted,” Vandermyde said.
“The Chicago firearms permit requirements are gone. The registration of all firearms, for the first time in my lifetime, are gone. Those are some significant developments.”
Though, Vandermyde admitted that the battle is not over just yet, as the city still bans laser sights, metal-piercing bullets, magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammo and certain semiautomatic rifles with distinctive cosmetic characteristics or so-called “assault weapons.”
We “have some more work to do, we’ll get to that, but this is a good first step,” noted Vandermyde.
Criminals have no fear of an unarmed population. They fear reprisal. Years ago, 2 teens were walking down the street bending every car's antenna in half. A man saw them coming, rushed out as they reached his car, caught one kid & thoroughly beat him up. In court, he told the judge that they would never again repeat this destruction. The Judge smiled, fined him a dollar, and the case was closed.
But their ignorance still continues on. Trigger locks! These are the die hards doing that. Just wait, I can assure the murder rate will go down and the justified shootings will go up!!! Good luck Chicago…
This is an amazingly useless article. It is so ambiguus that it provides no information.
How was the unconstitutional law gutted?
Why do you call this gutting the law?
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