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Chicago, San Fran. Next Up for Gun Lawsuits
Jun 27th 2008 9:00AM
Filed Under:eBarack Obama, Breaking News, 2008 President, Guns, Supreme Court
Gun-rights advocates announced plans yesterday to challenge restrictive gun laws in two of the nation's biggest cities in the wake of the landmark Supreme Court ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller. The Court ruled that Washington, D.C.'s ban on handgun ownership or possession within the District violated the Second Amendment's guarantee of the right to bear arms. The Illinois State Rifle Association and the National Rifle Association moved almost immediately to challenge gun laws in Chicago and San Francisco, respectively. Chicago's gun ban is similar to the one overturned in Washington, banning possession and sale of handguns within city limits. San Francisco bans possession of handguns on county property including parks, schools, and community centers.The lawsuits are likely only the first in a new spate of gun-rights legal challenges to gun laws all across the country. The Supreme Court's decision was the first time in its history that the Court had ruled on the issue of whether the Second Amendment protects an individual or collective right to own a gun. The Illinois lawsuit borrows from the wording of the Court's decision indicating that the right is individual.
"By banning handguns, Defendants [the City of Chicago] currently maintain and actively enforce a set of laws, customs, practices, and policies under color of state law which deprives individuals ... of their right to keep and bear arms."
The issue of gun rights has injected itself into the presidential campaign, with both Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama embracing the Court's decision. But the lawsuit in Chicago could be a sticky issue for Sen. Obama as the campaign goes on. Chicago is Obama's hometown, and while a member of the Illinois State Senate, Obama cast several votes against the interests of gun owners, including voting twice to bar homeowners who owned a gun for self defense from being charged with violating local gun laws if they used the weapon for that purpose. As the Chicago lawsuit progresses, Obama may be forced to take a position on his city's gun laws that could put him at odds with his new found support for an individual right to bear arms.
Recent Comments
(Page 1 of 1)Wish Belkin9:38AMJun 27th 2008
America seems to be on the brink of either tyranny or revolution. Now is not a good time to give up the right to bear arms.
Of course, it's not too late to change course.
Ron Paul for President !! (write it in)
bonbon10:55AMJun 27th 2008
where are all the gun owners,
shouldn't they be here praising, their victory.
shouldn't they be wondering why Obama has fought against gun possession , of every type of gun, why suddenly when he needs your votes, he CHANGES [ there is that word again } his staunch position, in HOPE { his new word } that none of you will notice, THAT HE WILL DO AND SAY WHATEVER IT TAKES.
Funny how he does that, right before your eyes, and so many of you fall for it.
one blogger told me, that Obama does the will of the people, but I call it pandering at it's best. just plain pandering.
does this man have any real principles, can't be if he CHANGES [ there is that word again ] them, at the HOPE { his new word ] of getting your vote.
seems to me, more gun owners should be concerned, right now and wondering, what Obama will do after he gets your votes, and he has the power to CHANGE things the way he really wants them.
HOPE YOU ALL ARE READY
David S.11:06AMJun 27th 2008
My fellow Democrats have to realize that the era of handgun bans is over. They never prevented crime in the first place. Some of these bans became 'trendy' when crime started increasing decades ago. The majority have spoken and this is a fight Democrats cannot win. Just as conservatives will eventually concede there are fights they cannot win (the increasing tolerance of and expanding of gay rights, to name one). Times change and we have to change with them - or risk being out of touch.
Bill McDonald12:38PMJun 27th 2008
Got to wonder if the ruling covers some laws that require registration of handguns? I believe in the individual right to own a handgun but there should be some control regarding purchase and sale. These gun shows where handguns are sold without background checks and really can be untraceable may be the source of so many weapons in the hands of criminals.
Cliff Mansfield2:30PMJun 27th 2008
Remember, in a life or death confrontation that will be decided in seconds the cops are only minutes away! Carry a gun.
-- NOBAMA 08!
Obama Sucks2:33PMJun 27th 2008
Another point- An armed criminal will kill an unarmed victim with monotonous regularity.
-- NOBAMA 08!
Cliff Mansfield2:34PMJun 27th 2008
I carry a gun because cops are too heavy.
NOBAMA 08!
Jim2:35PMJun 27th 2008
WHAT OBAMA DOESN'T WANT VOTERS TO KNOW ABOUT HIS UNCLE
WRIGHT..
http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/03/20/rev-wright-got-his-masters-degree-in-islam-in-west-africa/
Wrights Own Words..
Most of our members do not know that my Master’s Degree from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School was in the area of Islam in West Africa during the 19th Century — when the trans-Atlantic Slav
Trade was at its zenith. Islam has as many manifestations as Christianity and Judaism.
Rev Wright teacher of Islam was a DR Fazlur Rahman..
Once the election was underway, Barack Hussein Obama was very careful to promote himself as a Christian and the keystone of his Christian identity was Trinity Church, a Church shaped around a former Musli
whose Divinity School Masters Degree was on Islam and who used the Church to preach hatred for America and support for terrorism. That man of course is Jeremiah Wright.
With the revelations that Jeremiah Wright is a former Muslim and received his Masters degree from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School on Islam in Africa– Obama’s affiliation with Wright’s Trinity Church takes on a whole new meaning.
When Obama attended Wright’s Trinity Church, was he really attending a Church or a Mosque that Wright had built with a Christian facade over it.
Wright has admitted to incorporating ideas from Black Muslims into Trinity. He himself is a former Muslim who promotes an Islam centered view of America and Israel as demon states. There are Synagogues that are actually Churches dedicated to targeting Jews. Muslims have been covertly imitating some of this. There is a Jews for Allah and Muslims have been trained to lead religious discussions with Christians by equating Christianity with Islam , proclaiming that they too believe in Jesus. If there are Messianic Christian synagogues, why not a Prophetic Christian mosque?
Either way, conspiracy theories aside, the Church that Obama was attending had more in common with a Mosque than with a conventional Church. It was led by a former Muslim whose specialty was and is Islam. A former Muslim who hates America and Israel and who preaches ideas that are basically Black Muslim ideas. So Obama’s claim that Trinity Church normalizes him as a Christian goes out the window, because Trinity Church is no mainstream Christian Church. It’s as close as anyone can come to attending a Mosque without actually attending a Mosque.
Consider Obama’s “I’m not a Muslim” defense reverted back to square one. Or is that Mosque one.
Also Obama’s Chicago church reprinted a manifesto by Hamas that defended terrorism as legitimate resistance, refused to recognize the right of Israel to exist and compared the terror group’s official charter – which calls for the murder of Jews – to America’s Declaration of Independence.
copy of manifesto.... Guess Obama didn't see this one either...
...http://www.bizzyblog.com/wp-images/TUCChamasColumn072207.jpg
This is how Obama learned to lie so well..
http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm
here is how taqiyya is used in america..
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9730604_ITM
Obama Sucks2:39PMJun 27th 2008
NOBAMA 08!
Mark Impomeni3:38PMJun 27th 2008
Bill McDonald,
The ruling does not impact simple registration requirements. Nor does it have an effect on waiting periods and purchase limits. Certainly it does not impact laws against criminals and the mentally unstable buying guns. So there is plenty or room for common sense regulation on handguns.
But where government goes too far, according to the Court, is when it prevents ALL citizens from owning guns, or otherwise places such regulations as to make the actual use of those guns for traditionally legal pruposes practically impossible.
The so-called "gun show loophole" is really a red herring. Gun shows are where private collectors sell and trade their firearms. Registered commercial dealers are still required to follow all the federal and local restrictions. Think of it this way: a collector at a gun show is analagous to a private citizen selling his own car. A car dealer has to be registered and follow certain regulations, but the citizen selling his car in his driveway does not. It's the same with gun shows. Just like a citizen would not want to sell his car to a criminal for the purposes of robbing a bank, so too with the gun show collector. Federal regulation of gun shows makes about as much sense federal regulation of the classified advertisements.
Thanks for reading and commenting.
Sincerely,
Mark Impomeni
steve8:01AMJun 28th 2008
BOTH STATES NEED GUN LAWS CH AND CALIFORNIA THERE KNOW AS THE CRIME STATES ANY WAY, TO MANY GAYS, SO BUY BIGGER GUBS, WIPE EACH OTHER OUT, IT'S THE AMERICAN WAY
jhrobyn12:29PMJun 28th 2008
I will say it once again. There are currently hundreds of gun laws in place that make it highly illegal for prohibited persons to own or posses firearms. No more gun restrictions are needed. Criminals will continue to have guns, just as criminals will continue to get illegal narcotics, and alcoholics will continue to drive drunk.New laws will change absolutely nothing.New gun laws will have an effect only on law abiding citizens.There is no magic answer. The only thing society can do to help combat these and other illegal activities is to SEVERELY punish the people that are doing these illegal things when they are caught.More laws, especially more gun laws will do nothing,nothing,nothing!!!
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Georgette9:18AMJun 27th 2008
The ruling is in line with what our four fathers intended. Perhaps,
they were wise enough to see that someday the Government would be so
out of control that Americans would have to defend themselves.
If the state of our economy dosen't turn around, and Government
doesen't start making some hard decisions soon, there will be
thousands of people who will stop at nothing for just the everyday
necessities to surive.