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From The Second Amendment Foundation:
A federal court judge in Illinois has denied a City of Chicago motion for summary judgment and refused to dismiss a case challenging a ban of firearms sales within city limits that is backed by the Second Amendment Foundation.
It is the latest in a string of court battles between Chicago and SAF, causing SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb to observe, Weve already beat Chicago three times, in the McDonald case before the Supreme Court, and both Ezell 1 and Ezell 2 before the federal court of appeals. Im reminded of the folk song by Peter, Paul and Mary that asked, When will they ever learn?
The case involves a proposed gun shop called Second Amendment Arms (SAA), owned by R. Joseph Franzese, who submitted an application for a business license in July 2010. The city contends that the application was for an address in an area not zoned for commercial use, but Franzese argues that he was not advised about the zoning and that it had been advertised as commercial property. Besides, he contended that the citys prohibition on gun sales would have blocked (their) efforts no matter where (they) chose.
Maybe Chicago will learn?
August 30th, 2017 at 7:27 pm
Chicago is still in Cook County, with its firearms and ammo tax and semi-auto ban. My favorite gun store used to be in a suburb adjacent to Chicago because it was five doors down from my office. Now it’s one in adjacent DuPage County, mainly because it’s not in Cook County. (Ok, ok, they’re customer-friendly with decent prices, too.)
August 30th, 2017 at 7:34 pm
“Maybe Chicago will learn?”
Nope.
Not as long as the money used to pay for their shenanigans comes out of the taxpayer’s pockets.
August 30th, 2017 at 9:31 pm
” Forget it, Jake. It’s Chitown”.
August 31st, 2017 at 7:15 am
There’s no more semi-auto ban in Chicago. The city didn’t learn, it was struck down.
But there will be no learning in Chicago. Most of the rest of the State wants to secede. They can be Chicago, Illinois, and where I live can be in a new state called South Wisconsin or East Iowa or even Fuck You Rahmistan for all I care. But we won’t get that either because all the political power in the state is vested in House Speaker Madigan.