Judge Overturns Chicago Ban on Retail Gun Shops In City - Granite Grok

Judge Overturns Chicago Ban on Retail Gun Shops In City

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A federal judge on Monday stripped away a key element of Chicago’s gun ordinance, ruling that it is unconstitutional to prohibit licensed gun stores from operating in the city.

U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang found that the city failed to convince him that banning the sale of guns by licensed dealers was necessary to reduce gun violence.

The ruling also would make it legal for individuals to transfer ownership of a firearm as a gift or through a private sale as long as the recipient was at least 18 and had a firearm owner’s identification card.

The gun-prohibitionists (H/T Evan Nappen) will push an appeal and the judge knows that.  He has provided time for that by delaying the enforcement of his ruling.  How many of Chicago’s citizens will die while they wait?

Chicago has long been known as a city with the strictest gun laws in the land.  It is also known as having one of the highest murder rates in the nation, year after year;  cities and states with some of the least strict gun laws are some of the safest.

And yet still, we have (mostly) Democrats who are claiming to be against violence when what they want for you guarantees more of it.

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