The Chicago City Council doesn't get it. The Supreme Court, by the narrowest of margins (5-4) overturned their previous handgun restrictions, so they couln't wait to unanimoisl;y pass an even tougher, equally unconstitutional regulation on guns. What part of the Second Amendment don't they get?
By a vote of 45-0, Chicago bans all gun shops within the city - no restraint of trade here. Are liquor stores and auto dealers allowed to remain open? Seems like deaths and injuries result from those products also.
It is now a crime to leave your home with a gun in your hand - this includes going onto your porch, patio, or into your garage. Criminals just need to stay in you garage or yard and you are powerless to defend yourself.
Question - if you can't carry a gun outside the living space of your home (and you could argue that the garage and porches are part of that), hasn't your Second Amendment right to "bear" arms been infringed?
It's now also illegal for a person to own more than one handgun. Why? How does pass the "keep" arms test? It doesn't.
Any new gun purchases by a city resident - purchaseed someplace besides Chicago (nice way to encourage retail business in the city, by the way) - would require the gun owner to complete a 4-hour class (is that for each purchase?) and a 1-hour session at a gun range. However, since gun ranges are prohibited in the city except for police use, people would have to do this elsewhere also, again at a revenue loss to city merchants and the city for sales and occupational taxes.
Maybe the Supreme Court should be less subtle next time and tell Chicago it may not pass any law with the word "gun" in it and shall not attempt to circumvent the Constitution. Oh, but the Court really does does want to regulate guns, don't they?
Where is the ACLU?
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