Chicago's Mayor to propose 1 gun limit for Chicago Residents

[melensdad]

Chicago's WLS radio announced this afternoon that their "un-named source" within the mayor's office states that Chicago's Mayor Daley will be proposing a 1 gun per adult resident limit on handguns within the city.

Apparently this will be part of his proposal that will be released within the next several days by the mayor's office.

This will eliminate the possibility of a resident being a gun collector or competition shooter, handgun hunter, etc. The mayor's office claimed that only 1 handgun was needed by a resident for self defense. Therefore there will be a maximum of 1 gun allowed per resident in the city.

This is not a "1 gun a month" purchasing restriction, this is a 1 gun limit on handguns to be owned inside the city by a resident.

I would expect that the courts would invalidate that restriction very quickly.

 

[45calibre]

that blows, but hey one step at a time i guess.

 

[wtfd661]

I would expect that the courts would invalidate that restriction very quickly.

I pray so. I hope the subjects of Chicago figure out how to vote that turd out.

 

[Beau]

Is this really a surprise. The whole reasonable restrictions clause and all. Now it's just up to the anti's definition of reasonable.

 

[sj kahr k40]

Hopefully the people of Chicago will realize how much money is being wasted fighting against this and vote Daley out.

 

[Beau]

Next reasonable restriction: Amount of ammo you can have in the home. Then number and capacity of magazines. Caliber limits. etc.. This can go on and on.

 

[45calibre]

along with the dumbass liability insurance.

hes basically saying "you want guns? well, you can have em but it aint gonna be cheap."

 

[downzero]

I would expect that the courts would invalidate that restriction very quickly.

I wouldn't expect anything from the courts very quickly. The courts are a lot of things, but they're never quick.

I'm also not sure that courts will invalidate this at all. The only holding we have thus far about the ownership of handguns is, really, that they cannot be totally banned.

If strict scrutiny is applied, it probably will be struck down.

If some intermediate scrutiny applies, it'll probably be upheld. It would be relatively easy to suggest that this is a narrowly tailored restriction, especially in a city rampant with gun violence, regardless of the longstanding conclusion that gun control doesn't work.

You can bet that Daley and his cronies are going to get damn crafty. And much of it, they're going to get away with.

 

[Expat]

Hopefully the people of Chicago will realize how much money is being wasted fighting against this and vote Daley out.

Dude, you're assuming they actually have elections in Chicago where votes are counted

 

[tuoder]

This was basically the best possible scenario all along. There will be a challenge to this requirement, and it will fail.

 

[downzero]

Is this really a surprise. The whole reasonable restrictions clause and all. Now it's just up to the anti's definition of reasonable.

There is nothing about reasonable restrictions in the constitution or the cases. "Reasonable" restrictions, aka, the rational basis test, was rejected by Justice Scalia and the Court in Heller.

 

[jbombelli]

Dude, you're assuming they actually have elections in Chicago where votes are counted

Oh, they're counted alright. Including the ballots cast by people who have been dead for 100 years.

 

[remymartin]

THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR "ARM"? this will fail, but hey gotta crawl before you can walk.

 

[pudly]

I hope they don't try to sell that as a public safety restriction. It only takes one gun for a criminal to do their worst. Collectors, sports shooters, and often hunters use multiple.

 

[Bigum1969]

The required insurance he wants will be the real deal breaker.

 

[melensdad]

And it is now official.

Chicago moves quickly to draft new gun ordinance
Print Story: Chicago moves quickly to draft new gun ordinance - Yahoo! News
By DON BABWIN, Associated Press Writer
1 hr 4 mins ago

CHICAGO – Chicago Mayor Richard Daley will push for a strict handgun ordinance to replace its doomed gun ban that will likely include limiting each resident to a single handgun, requiring gun owners to have insurance and prohibiting gun stores from setting up shop in the city, his top lawyer said Tuesday.

A day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Americans have a right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live — a ruling that certainly means the end of Chicago's 28-year-old gun ban — Corporation Counsel Mara Georges moved quickly to alert a City Council committee of plans to propose a new gun ordinance.

Her appearance before the committee was the latest step in an effort that Daley's office has been working on since the court struck down a similar ban in Washington, D.C., two years ago.

Daley clearly wants to put a new ordinance in place quickly, perhaps well before an appellate court does as instructed by the Supreme Court and reviews the city's gun ban. Georges said she hopes to present an ordinance to the council committee by the end of the week.

Georges also said any new provisions the city puts in place will be able to withstand legal challenges that are sure to crop up when the new ordinance is ultimately passed, pointing out that the court ruled that "reasonable restrictions" on firearms do not violate the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

She said that limiting Chicago residents to one handgun would pass constitutional muster. Nowhere has the court determined that "a person is entitled to more than one handgun," she said. "And one handgun is sufficient for self defense."

She said banning gun shops in the city is another reasonable restriction. She said studies have shown a disproportionate number of shootings near gun shops and because there are dozens of gun shops in the Chicago area — 40 in Cook County alone — a ban would not inconvenience gun buyers.

But one gun rights supporter said many of Georges' suggestions all but assure a legal battle, calling them "preposterous" and a violation of gun owners' civil rights.

Owning a gun, said David Workman of the Bellevue, Washington-based Second Amendment Foundation, "is a civil right and you can't limit a civil right." He also said it would be illegal to single out gun shops just because the merchandise they sell might poise a danger to residents.
"Ask her how many drug stores in Chicago were ripped off in the last few years by somebody who needs a high," he said.

Council members seemed eager to pass a tough new ordinance that Georges also said might prohibit those convicted of two or more times of drunken driving or drug offenses from possessing a handgun and could require Chicagoans in homes with children to secure guns in a locked box or equip them with trigger locks.

One alderman, Edward Burke, suggested that Chicago follow the lead of some other cities by requiring those convicted of gun offenses to register with the city just as convicted sex offenders are required to do.
Another, Fredrenna Lyle, voiced her support for requiring gun owners have some kind of insurance, saying that the city already requires those with dogs deemed dangerous to beef up their insurance.

"I don't think there is anything that is more dangerous than a firearm in the hands of someone that has no training and no ability and no knowledge," she said.

When the court's decision was announced Monday, gun rights supporters said they would challenge any attempt to require insurance, saying, for example, that if it costs too much money it would amount to discrimination of the city's poorer residents. On Tuesday, Georges said the city was still grappling with such a requirement and has not yet figured out how it would work in way that is not too expensive.

 

[seawolfxix]

Most people have 2 hands. The founding fathers didn't say anything about restricting akimbo shooters.

 

[gunowner930]

Is anybody surprised that asinine restrictions like this would be proposed? As we all know "common sense laws" and "reasonable restrictions" are anything but. Too bad this scumbag will never stand trial for his actions.

 

[Smitty506th]

So is he going to limit people to one car per family to help the environment next? Lets see..... If I buy something from a local business then it puts money back into my local economy and so on and so fourth... Please tell me why thats a bad thing...?

 

[ADT knights]

so if i was to live in chicago i could only have 1 handgun... but if i live anywhere else in the state i can have as many as i want.... this is why chicago sucks