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Suit over new Chicago restrictions
NRA Press release here.
Update: NRA appears to be supporting the suit, brought by the Illinois Assn of Firearms Retailers, the State affiliate of National Shooting Sports Foundation. Press release here.
Comments
Anyone have a link to the actual complaint?
Posted by: Nick L. at July 6, 2010 06:37 PM
complaint is
here
Posted by: JeremyS at July 6, 2010 07:04 PM
About time the NRA joined the party, wonder why they left McDonald off the action. I wish them well, just wish they had not tried to stop McDonald in the first place.
NRA will fight for our rights, when cornered and trapped like a rat, but only if they feel like it and if the moon is in the rise phase and someone else is willing to do the hard work. Go NRA! :snark:
Posted by: dagamore at July 7, 2010 12:03 AM
Hope and change is in the air. Mayor Daley and his bunch will probably get taken to the woodshed on this one. When cities tire of paying to litigate these lawsuits they may think twice about stupid feel good laws. But then again it is only the taxpayers money so the lawyers will all get rich at our expense.
Posted by: 475okh at July 7, 2010 04:32 AM
Dagamore,
Its confusing enough trying to find Heller II case materials (suing DC to stop their magazine ban, etc), I'm glad they chose a different lead plantiff for this case.
Posted by: Kharn at July 7, 2010 05:50 AM
These liberals will never tire of being sued. This case will take a few years to work its way up. SCOTUS still has not given us a standard of review. Perhaps we'll get that here.
Once these laws are struck down, they will enact new ones, almost as bad, seeking any loophole they can find. They will do their best to judge shop. This will happen over and over, lawsuit after lawsuit, for decades.
These things primarely have to be won at the ballot box. Officials with actual respect for the rule of law need to be elected. This is not going to happen in Chicago any time soon.
Posted by: Jim at July 7, 2010 07:28 AM
I truly wish that NRA would stay out of this. They have proven time and again that they are not really in this fight to win just for the publicity.
They continue to comprise instead of actually fighting for principle. Can you say disclosure act??
Posted by: David McCleary at July 7, 2010 09:59 AM
It is not the NRA, it is "The Illinois Association of Firearms Retailers (ILAFR), a state affiliate of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)"
http://www.nssf.org/newsroom/releases/show.cfm?PR=070710-IL.cfm&path=2010
The NRA "supports" it, but I don't think it is their lawsuit.
Posted by: MattK at July 7, 2010 12:21 PM
According to Dave Kopel at Volokh, the NRA is simply funding the suit.
http://volokh.com/2010/07/06/suit-against-the-new-chicago-anti-gun-laws/
Posted by: jdberger at July 7, 2010 02:30 PM