{"id":5235,"date":"2010-08-25T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/08\/25\/saf-daley-councils-childish-arrogance\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:11:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:11:44","slug":"saf-daley-councils-childish-arrogance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5235","title":{"rendered":"SAF: Daley, council&#8217;s childish arrogance at root of follow-up lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:19059,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.saf.org\\\/viewoe.asp?id=340&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saf.org\/viewoe.asp?id=340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From Alan Gottlieb and the Second Amendment Foundation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Whatever spin Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and the city council wish to offer, it is their stubborn arrogance that has resulted in more gun rights lawsuits filed against the city following the Supreme Court\u2019s June 28 ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago that essentially nullified the city\u2019s 28-year handgun ban.<\/p>\n<p>The McDonald case \u2013 brought by the Second Amendment Foundation and Illinois State Rifle Association with four Chicago residents \u2013 resulted in a landmark ruling that incorporated the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms to the states via the 14th Amendment. SAF and ISRA have now been joined by Action Target, Inc., and two local residents, Rhonda Ezell and Joseph I. Brown to challenge the city\u2019s new gun ordinance, which appears to have been written to purposely provoke more lawsuits. <\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s childish stubbornness is going to cost taxpayers a small fortune. Mayor Daley and his anti-gun city council adopted what amounts to a \u201ctantrum ordinance\u201d that essentially spits in the high court\u2019s face. Sure, the city adopted an ordinance that \u2013 at least on paper \u2013 allows Chicago residents to own a handgun, but in reality, it is one huge \u201cCatch 22\u201d that was deliberately crafted to discourage residents from exercising their Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s handgun law requires prospective gun owners to undergo training, including at least one hour of actual time on a gun range. However, the ordinance prohibits the operation of gun stores and ranges inside city limits. Additionally, the city requires would-be Chicago gun owners to first obtain a Chicago Firearms Permit (CFP), and an application for that document requires an affidavit signed by a firearm instructor certified by the State of Illinois. <\/p>\n<p>Instructors cannot teach those courses anywhere inside the city because there is no place to conduct that training. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Illinois Association of Firearms retailers and a north suburban gun shop operator sued the city over this ordinance. Now, SAF, ISRA and ATI have brought legal action. Action Target is a Delaware-based company that designs and builds gun ranges, including one in Chicago, in the Federal Reserve Bank building, for use by law enforcement. The company wants to build a gun range in the city for private citizens, but the city\u2019s ordinance makes that impossible.<\/p>\n<p>This sort of thing may be \u201cpolitics as usual\u201d in the Windy City, but it does not pass the smell test anywhere else. It sends a signal that Chicago authorities believe they are above the Constitution and the rule of law as defined by the Supreme Court. It\u2019s the kind of attitude one sees in a schoolyard bully, suggesting that Mayor Daley and his council cronies are in desperate need of adult supervision.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps when Mayor Daley was a child, he became accustomed to taking his ball and going home when things did not go his way on the playfield. Since he evidently has never grown up, he believes this conduct is still acceptable in an adult world. The citizens of Chicago have tolerated his juvenile delinquency but that doesn\u2019t mean the rest of the country needs to.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago\u2019s ridiculous gun law is proof positive that the city administration does not take the Supreme Court ruling seriously. The time has come to change that, and that will require the federal courts to spank the city again, since nothing else seems to get the city\u2019s attention.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You do wonder if Hizzonor dah Mayor will deign to issue a response. There is certainly a stimulus plan in effect in Chicago &#8211; for lawyers.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Alan Gottlieb and the Second Amendment Foundation: Whatever spin Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and the city council wish&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4607,384],"class_list":["post-5235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-daley","tag-second-amendment-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5725,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions\/5725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}