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« History Channel's "Top Shot" | Main | Correction of opinion count for Feb. 22 Sitting »

Are we seeing a pattern here?

Posted by David Hardy · 3 June 2010 01:35 PM

For the second time in a week, a Chicagoan uses a banned handgun to shoot a home invader.

· Self defense

3 Comments | Leave a comment

AMB | June 3, 2010 5:23 PM | Reply

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.)

Jerry in Detroit | June 4, 2010 7:48 AM | Reply

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

liberty supporter | June 6, 2010 5:55 AM | Reply

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?

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