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Victory: Illinois Ban on Handgun Carry Struck Down

Richard912 Wrote: Dec 11, 2012 2:36 PM
Let's not celebrate just yet. Chicago had its gun laws struck down and they conjured such Draconian procedures to get a license that hardly anyone can. Wait to see what "accommodation" the legislature comes up with. Illinois is so backward they can see themselves going.
paddy o'furniture Wrote: Dec 11, 2012 2:58 PM
Yep. After D.C. had their law struck down a couple years ago, they responded by crafting a new law with so many hoops to jump through it was even worse than before.

Lefties will do whatever they want, and it doesn't matter a whole lot what some court says.

Sometimes I wish we were like that......

In a victory for the Second Amendment and self defense advocates everywhere, Judge Richard Posner ruled in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Tuesday that the Illinois ban on carrying a firearm outside of the home for self-defense purposes is unconstitutional.

“One doesn’t have to be a historian to realize that a right to keep and bear arms for personal self-defense in the eighteenth century could not rationally have been limited to the home. . . .  Twenty-first century Illinois has no hostile Indians. But a Chicagoan is a good deal more likely to be...

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