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« DC's compliance with Heller | Main | Dumb crook burglarizes rifle club »

Wilmette IL repeals handgun ban

Posted by David Hardy · 23 July 2008 09:59 AM

Story here. It's the second Chicago suburb to do so (first was Morton Grove). Four more remain in place.

Hat tip to reader Carl in Chicago....

3 Comments | Leave a comment

Carl in Chicago | July 23, 2008 11:23 AM | Reply

More coverage here:

http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/2650983.php?

Don Hamrick | July 24, 2008 6:15 AM | Reply

Hint of armed revolt from Harrisonburg, VA newspaper editorial for the Second Amendment?

D.C. Still Doesn't Get It On Guns

Daily News-Record

Harrisonburg, Virginia

July 24, 2008, p. A4.

Editorial posted online July 24, 2008

When will folks in our nation’s capital become so sick of the violence that threatens their daily existence that they rise up against both the thugs that dominate the streets of their neighborhoods and the legal obstructionists posing as elected officials?

This past fortnight should have been sufficient to give pause and provoke outrage. This past weekend alone there were 13 shootings, two of them fatal.

Despite the recent Supreme Court decision overturning the district’s gun ban, while affirming the rights of citizens to protect themselves, hardened criminals obviously still feel unencumbered to commit mayhem. A great deal of this may well have to do with the D.C. City Council’s virtual defiance of the highest court in the land.

For instance, these officials have deemed semi-automatic weapons to be “machine guns,” so residents cannot possess them. It apparently matters not a whit to these seedy pols that the Supreme Court declared the ban on semiautomatic weapons unconstitutional or that the vast majority of handguns used in the United States are semiautomatic.

What’s more, City Council, again defying the high court, still requires that all firearms remain unloaded and disassembled, or locked at all times. Gun owners are not even allowed to carry their firearms in the privacy of their own homes or apartments.

These councilors, as evidenced by the comments of Ward 3 representative Mary Cheh, are well aware that such insubordination is “a lawsuit waiting to happen.” But, as Mrs. Cheh added, “We’ll be prepared.”

Far better, we say, for the residents of the district to be “prepared” — prepared to defend their homes, prepared to recoil in righteous anger against both the criminals and the councilors, prepared, indeed, to rise up.

Phillep | July 24, 2008 8:31 AM | Reply

So, my first thought was they wanted a way to repeal a mistake that did not leave egg on their faces.

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