{"id":379579,"date":"2010-03-02T09:46:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T14:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/chicago-handgun-ban-before-supreme-court"},"modified":"2010-03-02T09:46:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T14:46:46","slug":"chicago-handgun-ban-before-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/379579","title":{"rendered":"Chicago handgun ban before Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (CBS\/AP) \u2015<\/strong> Does the City of Chicago’s nearly three-decade old ban on handgun ownership violate Second Amendment? The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide.<\/p>\n

\nThe Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday in a case that asks them to extend their landmark 2008 decision in Heller v. District of Columbia. <\/span>The\u00a0 case being heard now, McDonald v. Chicago, asks them to extend the decision to state and local laws.<\/p>\n

\nIn Heller v. D.C., the court ruled then that the Second Amendment gives individuals a right to possess guns for self-defense and other purposes, but that decision only applied to federal laws, such as those of Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

\nThe court has ruled that most of the rest of the Bill of Rights applies to state and local governments.<\/p>\n

\nThe plaintiffs in the case will all be present for as their attorneys argue the lawsuit before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

\nThe plaintiffs are:<\/p>\n

\nOtis McDonald, a retiree who says he wants protection after his Far South Side house has been broken into repeatedly and he has been threatened.<\/p>\n

\nDavid and Colleen Lawson, whose involvement stems from a scare in 2006 when Colleen Lawson was home alone with the flu and three men tried to jimmy open her back door. They ran off when they saw her through a window.<\/p>\n

\nAdam Orlov, a businessman who was previously a police officer for four years, and believes that people hurt by the city’s handgun ban are those obeying it.<\/p>\n

\nChicago’s ban on the sale and possession of handguns dates from 1982, and it has been weathering legal challenges for years. But it gained newfound attention after the Heller decision.<\/p>\n

\nWithin days of the Heller vs. D.C. ruling, suburban Wilmette, Morton Grove and Winnetka did away with their handgun bans altogether, and Evanston repealed parts of its ban.<\/p>\n

\nBut in Chicago and Oak Park, the ban remained. A federal judge dismissed lawsuits by the National Rifle Association to overturn the bans, and in June of last year, a three-judge federal appeals court upheld that ruling.<\/p>\n

\nMayor Richard M. Daley wants the ban to remain in place. He says local officials need flexibility to decide how best to protect their communities.<\/p>\n

\n“We have the right for health and safety to pass reasonable laws dealing with the protection and health of the people of the city of Chicago,” Daley said.<\/p>\n

\nHe is backed by community groups and Chicago’s congressional delegation.<\/p>\n

\n“Many of my friends talk about the fact that they hunt in their state and I will tell them that many of the people who are hunting in Chicago are not hunting wild game — they are hunting each other,” U.S. Rep. Danny Davis said.<\/p>\n

\nMcDonald, Orlov and the Lawsons are not the only plaintiffs — the Second Amendment Foundation, an anti-gun control group, and the Illinois State Rifle Association are also named.<\/p>\n

\nIf Chicago’s ban is overturned and the city passes another gun law the National Rifle Association’s Todd Vandermyde predicts a flurry of lawsuits against the city.<\/p>\n

\n“They’d better understand that Supreme Court opinions are not advisory in nature,” he said. “They’re either going to comply or they’re going to find themselves on the long end of a lot of litigation.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Read the original article from WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n

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