Same here. As you can see I'm for open-carry.
Posted on 06/29/2010 6:57:23 PM PDT by lex33
Chicagoans should be limited to one handgun for every eligible person living in a home — and gun dealers should be banned within the city limits — in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to shoot down the city’s handgun ban, the city’s top lawyer said today.
One day after Chicago’s strictest-in-the-nation handgun ban was rendered unenforceable, Corporation Counsel Mara Georges argued that it’s “critical to public safety” to at least draw the line on the number of handguns in Chicago.
One day after Chicago’s strictest-in-the-nation handgun ban was rendered unenforceable, Corporation Counsel Mara Georges argued that it’s “critical to public safety” to at least draw the line on the number of handguns in Chicago.
“One handgun is sufficient for self-defense. We believe that a limitation on the number of handguns to one-per-person-per-residence would be consistent with Supreme Court” rulings overturning handgun bans in Chicago and Washington D.C., Georges told the City Council’s Police Committee.
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“One handgun is sufficient for self-defense. We believe that a limitation on the number of handguns to one-per-person-per-residence would be consistent with Supreme Court” rulings overturning handgun bans in Chicago and Washington D.C., Georges told the City Council’s Police Committee.
“Limiting the number of handguns to one-per-person would reduce the number of handguns in circulation, reduce the ability of people to act as straw purchasers of handguns for others who are not entitled to possess handgun and reduce the number of handguns that would be available to children in the home.”
A Chicago ban on gun dealers would be similarly motivated, Georges said. She noted that there are 45 dealers within 13 miles of the city’s limits and ten within one mile.
“Gun dealers have access to large quantities of guns. Gun stores, therefore, present a serious risk of guns flowing quickly into the community and into the hands of criminals through theft or through illegal trafficking,” Georges said.
“In a large city like Chicago with plenty of criminals who want guns, there is a higher likelihood that a gun sold by a legitimate gun dealer to a legal purchaser will nonetheless end up in the hands of a criminal.”
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court signed the death warrant for Chicago’s strictest-in-the-nation handgun ban.
Two years after shooting down Washington D.C.’s handgun ban, the high court’s five-member conservative majority ruled that the Second Amendment right to own a gun for self-defense extends to all Americans, no matter where they live.
With no guidance on what kinds of gun regulations might pass legal muster, the Daley administration is on its own to figure out who should be allowed to register a handgun, how high the registration fee should be, how often and how long gun owners should undergo firearms training and how much liability insurance they must purchase.
During Tuesday’s Police Committee meeting, the replacement ordinance started to take shape.
Georges said Mayor Daley has insisted on a first-in-the-nation insurance requirement to protect Chicago taxpayers from an avalanche of gun-related lawsuits. She noted homeowners and renters policies already cover accidental shootings and shootings in self-defense.
Police Supt. Jody Weis talked about prohibiting people from owning handguns if they’re under 18, visually impaired, have two drug or drunk driving convictions, a history of domestic violence or past convictions for unlawful use of a weapon.
“Compliance with licensing requirements is so important that substantial fines, some jail time and revocation of one’s ability to own a weapon are appropriate penalties,” he said.
The superintendent also talked about following Washington’s lead by requiring revolvers to be unloaded and either disassembled or secured with trigger locks unless homeowners have reason to fear a home intruder.
“It’s extraordinarily dangerous to have a weapon in any state of operability when you have teenagers or young children inside a home and they could get it and, just out of curiosity, injure themselves or one of their brothers or sisters or friends,” the superintendent said.
Earlier Tuesday, George told reporters the Daley administration would take its time before approving a replacement for Chicago’s “unenforcible” handgun ban to avoid providing more legal ammunition for gun control opponents.
“We’re just trying to get it right. ... We’re trying to figure out how far we can go and survive a challenge because we know it’s gonna be challenged right away. So, we’re being cautious,” she said.
It’s unraveling. I’ll take one gun per person over zero any day.
I especially like this: “the Daley administration would take its time before approving a replacement”
Take your sweet time - years will be fine.
Now how come you get to say "%^@#s" and I was moderated under my other account name for saying the same thing?
Just makes me wanna &^%#$#$!
Well, &^%#$#$!
Just another Leftist would-be commissar expelling a bit of verbal flatulence.
In a discussion I heard on TV tonight some Liberal points were to make laws that would be required before one could own a gun. Some of those would be hours of schooling/training, higher fees, costs for ammunitions and etc,etc!
My thoughts were maybe that should apply to voting!.
Only one handgun per person?
I wonder how many Chicago Cops are willing to give up their backup guns???
Yea, one gun *per* hand is usually sufficient.
And then of course you have to have backups. And backups to the backups.
It’s a vicious cycle. :)
Lawyers should be declared as HazMat and order to move to a toxic waste site..
“or this 18.5 inch Benelli outlawed during the Clinton years:”
Ah, the Benelli’s.
Have Lusted after the M4 Super 90 for some Time.
Could not find one for sale around here.
Had to settle for a couple of Mossbergs and an 870 Tactical.
I want to know how soon Holder and Obama will announce their law suit. This is a slippery slope that could lead to profiling. Minorities are the ones who will be most hurt by these rules and regulations. I remember the s^!+ hitting the fan when Georgia wanted to start requiring voters to have ID. The left said poor people would not be able to pay for ID cards. The state will now pay for IDs for poor people. I hope Daily is prepared to pay the; registration fees, firearms training, insurance, and any thing else they want to throw in, for all the poor people. Taxpayers, if there are still some in Chicago, won't be happy.
Will anyone pick up that this person is totally insulting the law-abiding folks in Chicago?
You’re idiots. You can’t handle more than one gun. You’ll probably lose it to criminals. You ought to be kissing our asses we’ll let each of you have just one gun, you’re just so stupid and dangerous.
Criminals? They’ll get their guns no matter what we do, or laws we pass. They aren’t insulted by our draconian, gun laws and our stance on law-abiding dummies being armed. They LIKE IT that law abiding Chicagoans aren’t armed. WE LIKE IT TOO.
From the article:
We believe that a limitation on the number of handguns to one-per-person-per-residence would be consistent with Supreme Court” rulings
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Same here. As you can see I'm for open-carry.
For a view from Chicago cops on the Supreme Court ruling, go here:
Second City Cop
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CAUTION - somewhat salty language.
I hate Illinois nazis.
[But] Taxpayers, if there are still some in Chicago, won't be happy.
Excellent point!If it's a right, like voting . . .
FU Mara and the mayor too.
How dare you dictate what a household can use for defense.
How dare you and king richie tell the serfs what they can and will do to protect themselves from the yobs, hooligans,gang bangers and other near do wells.
Get off your high horse you stupid female dog.
When seconds count cops are minutes away.
How many must die.
Let me list off the top my uneducated brain who can own guns without your stupid regulations.
1. Cops
2.Cops who protect Daley
3.Alder creatures.
Cops who protect alder cratures.
4.Criminals
5. Gang bangers, but I repeat myself
I respect the cops in Chicago for the most part. They ave a most difficult job under your stupid regulations also.
What are you Mara and king richie afraid of, maybe that the serfs will rise up and kick your asses out of office.
More likely that they will come for you like they did mussolini.
I have no desire to temporarily visit, much less exist, in such a vile human cesspool as is Chicago.
I won't pretend compassion for the people there, who not only accepted the vileness of their criminal overlords, but knowingly joined them, knowing the poisen would eventually destroy their own children's future.
I have no desire to attempt to save any of them from their deserved destruction.
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