Fairfax, Va. — The National Rifle Association is supporting a lawsuit against Mayor Richard Daley and the City of Chicago’s newly adopted gun control ordinance, which violates the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago. Last Friday, the City Council rushed through passage of this ordinance in response to the Court’s June 28th decision rendering Chicago\u2019s draconian handgun ban unconstitutional.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Supreme Court has now said the Second Amendment is an individual freedom for all. And that must have meaning,\u201d said Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association. \u201cThis decision cannot lead to different measures of freedom, depending on what part of the country you live in. City by city, person by person, this decision must be more than a philosophical victory. An individual right is no right at all if individuals can\u2019t access it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just four days after the Court struck down the nearly 30 year-long handgun bans in Chicago and Oak Park, Mayor Daley and the City of Chicago enacted the most restrictive anti-gun ordinance in the United States. In the words of Corporation Counsel Mara Georges, the top attorney for the City: \u201cWe’ve gone farther than anyone else ever has.\u201d The so-called \u201cResponsible Gun Ownership Ordinance\u201d provisions include: a prohibition on all gun sales inside the City; a prohibition on possession of firearms for self-defense outside the \u201chome\u201d — even on a patio or in an attached garage; a prohibition on more than one assembled and operable firearm in the home; and a training requirement to obtain a Chicago Firearm Permit. However, range training would be impossible since it will now be unlawful to operate a shooting range inside city limits.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Supreme Court told Mayor Daley and the City of Chicago that it has to respect the Second Amendment. By enacting this ordinance, their response is ‘Make Us’,\u201d said Chris W. Cox, NRA chief lobbyist. \u201cThe NRA will not rest until Chicago’s law-abiding residents can exercise the same freedoms that our Founding Fathers intended all Americans to have.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recent statements from some of Chicago’s city officials reflect their complete lack of respect for the Supreme Court decision. Alderman Daniel Solis stated, \u201cthe decision made by the Supreme Court is not really in the best interests of our citizens.\u201d Alderman Sharon Denise Dixon denounced what she called the Court\u2019s \u201cblatant\u2026 misreading of the law.\u201d And another city council member even went so far as to say, \u201c[w]e\u2019re here today because of their poor judgment.”<\/p>\n
The case is Benson v. City of Chicago.<\/p>\n
— NRA – ILA — <\/em><\/p>\n Established in 1871, the National Rifle Association is America\u2019s oldest civil rights and sportsmen’s group. Four million members strong, NRA continues its mission to uphold Second Amendment rights and to advocate enforcement of existing laws against violent offenders to reduce crime. The Association remains the nation’s leader in firearm education and training for law-abiding gun owners, law enforcement and the military. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fairfax, Va. — The National Rifle Association is supporting a lawsuit against Mayor Richard Daley and the City of Chicago’s newly adopted gun control ordinance, which violates the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago. Last Friday, the City Council rushed through passage of this ordinance in response to the Court’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[806],"class_list":["post-4578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-second-amendment","tag-benson-v-city-of-chicago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}