Black women, as a whole, seem entirely absent from the gun discussion.
(Washington Post) — About a hundred times a year, regulators strip gun dealers of their licenses for violations of federal law, an extreme step taken only when repeated infractions are deemed a threat to public safety. But a year-long Washington Post investigation documented about 60 cases since 2003 in which the businesses stayed open, often re-licensed […]
(NYT) — Mayor Richard M. Daley has long insisted that the city’s restrictive gun laws — including the handgun ban that was essentially nullified recently by the United States Supreme Court — have been a key crime-fighting tool. But court records show that relatively few people were convicted of violating the laws, and even top city officials […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Mayor Daley today denied that he’s making Chicago gun owners jump through hoops to exercise their Second Amendment rights and expressed confidence the city’s new gun law can withstand a court challenge. “We’re not jumping through hoops. We have to have accountability. … This is protection of the city from lawsuits […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — More than 75 people visited Chicago Police headquarters Monday to pick up applications to register firearms on the day the city’s new handgun ordinance took effect. The ordinance, which requires gun owners to keep their weapons in their homes, was hastily crafted by the city after the U.S. Supreme Court struck […]
(AP) — A federal lawsuit has been filed against the city of Chicago asking the city’s new gun control ordinance be declared “null and void.” A group of people, including the Illinois Association of Firearms Retailers, filed the lawsuit Tuesday, saying the new ordinance infringes on their constitutional rights. The plaintiffs want the city prohibited […]
(Afro) — The Supreme Court on June 28 struck down Chicago, Ill.’s strict anti-handgun legislation, but D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton said the decision in fact sanctions Washington D.C.’s new and revised gun laws, created after the same court struck down the city’s more restrictive gun ban two years ago. The nation’s highest court struck […]
(New York Times) — “Something has to be done, Mr. President, about the sale of guns.” Forty-four years after race riots prompted Mayor Richard J. Daley to make that vain plea to PresidentLyndon B. Johnson, Mr. Daley’s son Mayor Richard M. Daley spent much of the past week reacting furiously to the latest setback in his […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Chicagoans could still purchase up to a dozen handguns a year — without liability insurance — under a watered-down replacement to the city’s overturned handgun ban, expected to be rushed through today. Concerned that Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling could leave the mistaken impression that it’s open season on guns, Mayor […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Emotions ran high at Chicago State University, where gun rights advocates looked to convince area African Americans that ordinary citizens should be allowed to carry guns to avoid becoming crime victims. Community speakers advocating for concealed carry cited statistics about how women with guns are less likely to be raped, contended […]
(AP) — Members of the Chicago City Council appear eager to pass a tough new gun ordinance after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that will mean the end of the city’s 28-year-old gun ban. At a hearing Tuesday, members of a committee heard from the city’s chief attorney about an ordinance that Mayor Richard M. Daley […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Otis McDonald will get his gun. And the Morgan Park grandpa — the face of the Second Amendment lawsuit that led to today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling to overturn Chicago’s handgun ban — couldn’t be giddier. “This is great. I am so happy,” McDonald said from Washington D.C. “It’s a milestone.” […]