It's good, although I see no reason to give violent misdemeanor guys a second chance after 5 years.Mayor Rahm Emanuel rewrote a section of the ordinance, permanently banning anyone with a violent felony conviction from firearm ownership, and placing a five-year ban on gun purchases for anyone convicted of a violent misdemeanor, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.Wednesday's vote to narrow the ban marks the latest in a long series of rewrites to Chicago's gun control policy: in 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the city's 28-year-old handgun ban, and City Council has been facing frequent legal challenges to its restrictions since then.The revision was a necessary change following a judge's ruling last month that nonviolent ex-offenders could not be barred from obtaining a firearm owner's identification card and purchasing guns.After that ruling, Emanuel promised to push back, and many pointed to the city's growing problem with gun violence as evidence that harsher restrictions were necessary.
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That's the equivalent of the patient suffering from terminal cancer, and the doctor cures his dandruff.
ReplyDeleteSo Tiny Dancer uses preemption to write a city law that.....
ReplyDelete"permanently bans anyone with a violent felony conviction from firearm ownership"
So he replicates federal and state law, since anyone convicted of a violent felony is banned from owning firearms (barring a appropriate pardon), and prevented from getting a FOID card by state law.
And the law does not address the judges decision that, "nonviolent ex-offenders could not be barred from obtaining a firearm owner's identification card and purchasing guns"
Sounds like Laci has been out Chicago way helping precious little Rham write law, what a effing moron.....