We're seeing that the word is getting out among people who live in Chicago that there's a law that applies here that, in effect, says, "If you have a gun inside your home and you use it in self-defense against someone who breaks into your home, you're not going to be charged with any city law that says you may not have a firearm in your home."

ILLINOIS
(720 ILCS 5/24-10)
Sec. 24-10. Municipal ordinance regulating firearms; affirmative defense to a violation. It is an affirmative defense to a violation of a municipal ordinance that prohibits, regulates, or restricts the private ownership of firearms if the individual who is charged with the violation used the firearm in an act of self-defense or defense of another as defined in Sections 7-1 and 7-2 of this Code when on his or her land or in his or her abode or fixed place of business.

(Source: P.A. 93-1048, eff. 11-16-04.)

Oh, horrifying! Another associate of Mayor Daley has been injured by an eeevil gun. We've got to make Chicago safe...for the criminals.

Ok, so there are no charges at this time. But I bet the handguns have been taken as evidence so now what do they do for defense? Smuggle another one into the city to defend against retaliation from the gang?