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  • Personal Firearm Slips From Niles Mayor’s Hands, Accidentally Goes Off

    03/06/2025 11:15:35 AM PST · by PBRCat · 51 replies
    Niles Journal Topics ^ | March 5, 2025 | Tom Robb
    While removing a shotgun from the office of his restaurant in Morton Grove at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, Niles Mayor George Alpogianis dropped the weapon and it discharged, injuring himself and a co-worker. “On Saturday, Feb. 15, while leaving my restaurant office, I accidentally discharged my personal firearm while preparing to take it for routine cleaning,” Alpogianis said in a written statement. “As I removed the weapon, it slipped from my grip, and when I attempted to catch it, it discharged. It was pointed at the ground. “The incident resulted in flesh wounds to me and a co-worker...
  • MORTON GROVE TO KENNESAW: HOPE FOR THE NEW YEAR

    01/01/2010 5:42:54 AM PST · by marktwain · 3 replies · 445+ views
    backwoodshome.com ^ | 31 December, 2009 | Massad Ayoob
    My Christmas rounds encompassed Morton Grove, Illinois and Kennesaw, Georgia this year, which is a little like a Cold War combatant going from Moscow to Washington, DC in the same week. Advocates of gun owners’ civil rights well remember that Morton Grove was the first municipality to ban private ownership of handguns, “back in the day.” But we also remember that after the landmark US Supreme Court decision in Heller in 2008, Morton Grove was among the first such communities to buckle and rescind the law. Significant Other and I were on Mark Walters’ radio show on 12-27-09 (downloadable from...
  • Chicago Suburb Drops Ban On Private Possession Of Handguns

    08/30/2008 8:01:27 PM PDT · by epow · 13 replies · 197+ views
    NRAILA ^ | 8/29/08 | staff
    Friday, August 29, 2008 This week, the Village of Morton Grove, Illinois agreed to a stipulated dismissal of a NRA lawsuit challenging the village's gun ban. A new town ordinance recognizes the right to private handgun ownership, bringing an end to NRA's lawsuit against the village. Morton Grove completely dismissed its ordinance banning handguns and agreed not to replace it with any direct regulation other than to adopt existing state laws. "Today's move is further vindication of the U.S. Supreme Court's Heller ruling upholding the Second Amendment as protecting an inherent, individual civil right for all law-abiding Americans," declared NRA-ILA...
  • Morton Grove repeals ban after denying rights for 27 years

    07/29/2008 2:15:49 PM PDT · by marktwain · 15 replies · 52+ views
    vanity | 29 July, 2008 | Marktwain
    After denying residents rights guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States, the Village of Morton Grove, Illinois, finally repealed their unconstitutional ban on handguns this week. The village board seemed unrepentent for their past crimes. One board trustee called the outrage " a noble experiment". The Chicago Tribune reported that: Peggy Friewer, 56, who said her father was mayor when the ban was enacted, told the board that she was "very saddened that you would even consider amending the ordinance."
  • Village of Morton Grove to Repeal Gun Ban

    07/18/2008 9:25:03 PM PDT · by neverdem · 19 replies · 264+ views
    NRA - ILA ^ | July 18, 2008 | NA
    ·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683 Village of Morton Grove to Repeal Gun Ban Friday, July 18, 2008 Fairfax, VA. – Today the Village of Morton Grove moved to avoid imminent legal action by the National Rifle Association by amending its Village Code to remove the current handgun ban and incorporate sections of the Illinois Criminal Code. “We are pleased that the Village of Morton Grove took steps to repeal its draconian gun ban,” said Chris W. Cox, NRA’s chief lobbyist. “Finally Village residents can exercise the same constitutionally-protected rights that the rest of the country enjoys.” Final...
  • NRA challenges SF's firearm ban

    02/23/2006 7:44:32 PM PST · by george76 · 20 replies · 822+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | February 23, 2006 | Bob Egelko
    The National Rifle Association pressed its case against San Francisco's voter-approved ban on firearm sales and handgun possession in court today, arguing that the ordinance flouts state law by requiring law-abiding residents to surrender their pistols. The city's lawyer countered that a local government is entitled to protect its residents from handgun violence. The hearing ended without Superior Court Judge James Warren ruling on the validity of Proposition H, which was approved by 58 percent of the voters Nov. 8 and was challenged by the NRA, three other organizations and seven gun owners the next day. Warren asked the city...