From WGN website:
The Supreme Court announced this morning it will hear a challenge to Chicago’s gun restrictions that will determine if local handgun bans are legal.
Last year, the high court ruled the 2nd Amendment gave individuals the right to possess firearms and struck down Washington, D.C.’s gun bans.
Left open was the question of whether states and local governments are required to do the same.
By agreeing to take up the cases National Rifle Association vs. City of Chicago and McDonald vs. City of Chicago, the high court potentially could set in motion a nationwide re-establishment of the right to bear arms. Those two cases challenge several Chicago gun laws, including the city’s ban on handguns.
In the high courts decision in June of last year, it ruled 5-4 for the first time that the 2nd Amendment establishes the right to own a handgun for personal self-defense, not only as part of a state militia.
Mayor Richard Daley immediately condemned the court’s decision and vowed to fight any attempt to invalidate the city’s now 27-year-old gun ban.
Hours after the court’s decision, the Illinois State Rifle Association sued Chicago and Daley in an attempt to overturn the ban.
One of the plaintiffs is Otis McDonald, an elderly man who last year lived in the Morgan Park area and told the Chicago Tribune he keeps a shotgun at home to protect himself from gangs that plagued his neighborhood.
After the court ruled in the Washington, D.C., case, Morton Grove, Wilmette, Evanston and Winnetka dropped their gun bans, in large measure to fend off costly lawsuits.
They're going to have to ban railroad ties, too.
You can ban guns. You can't ban evil.
A minor - but important - quibble. > Re-establish? < The right has existed since before the founding, the essential component of the Unalienable rights of Life and Liberty! (and darned well important for the weekend Pursuit of Happiness and the 10 ring). Infringed it has been, but not de-established. Perhaps "re-discovering" is the better word.
“Left open was the question of whether states and local governments are required to do the same”
Wonder if the question would be so open if a state or local govt decided to outlaw newspapers, or to conduct random home searches without warrants, or even probable cause, or to outlaw the building of a mosque?
It seems that only the 2nd amendment doesnt apply to the states, huh?
“The Supreme Court announced this morning it will hear a challenge to Chicago’s gun restrictions that will determine if local handgun bans are legal.
“Last year, the high court ruled the 2nd Amendment gave individuals the right to possess firearms and struck down Washington, D.C.’s gun bans.”
It’ll be interesting to see how the SCOTUS defends allowing 1 and not the other. (If indeed it rules that way.)
Hey Mayor Dumbass Daley, good thing those gun bans were in place when the 4 black teen thugs just beat to death the black teen honors student a few days ago. Otherwise somebody might have ended up getting shot /sarc instead of just being beat senseless by 2x6's and then kicked to death.