As reported by Associated Press Writer, Don Babwin, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley will push for a strict handgun ordinance to replace its doomed gun ban that will likely include limiting each resident to a single handgun, requiring gunowners to have insurance and prohibiting gun stores from setting up shop in the city, his top lawyer said Tuesday.
A day after the US Supreme Court rule that Americans have a right to own gun for self defense anywhere they live-a ruling that certainly means the end of Chicago’s 28 year old gun ban- Corporation Counsel Mara Georges (the equivalent to our City Legal Counsel) moved quickly to alert a City Council Committee of plans to propose a new handgun ordinance.
Her appearance before the committee was the latest step in an effort that Daley’s office has been working on since the court struck down a similar ban in Washington D.C. two years ago. Daley wants to put a new ordinance in place quickly, perhaps well before an appellate court does as instructed by the Supreme Court and reviews the city’s gun ban. Georges said she hopes to present an ordinance to the council committee by the end of the week.
She also said any new provisions the city puts in place will be able to withstand any legal challenges that are sure to crop up when the new ordinance is ultimately passed, pointing out that the court ruled that “reasonable restrictions” on firearms do not violate the second amendment right to keep and bear arms.
Georges also said that limiting Chicago resident to one handgun would pass the Constitutional muster. Nowhere has the court determined that “a person is entitled to more than one handgun” she said. “and one handgun is sufficient for self-defense”.
She said banning guns shops in the city is another reasonable restriction. She said studies have shown a disproportionate number of shootings near gun shops and because there are dozens of gunshops in the Chicago area-40 in Cook County alone-a ban would not inconvenience gun buyers. (Kaya wala palang AFAD doon)
But one gun rights supporter said many of Georges suggestions all but assure a legal battle calling them preposterous and a violation of gun owners’ civil rights.
Is this a mere coincidence or the workings of a universally well entrenced network of anti-guns. PASAWAY!
Verzosa mentioned that he is open to a cabine position when he retires. I suggest he go abroad as an OFW and work for Mayor Daley in Chicago. They seem to have the same wavelength an complement each other.