Reply #29: What legal guns in Chicago?

[one-eyed fat man]

Didn't the regulations written by Dickwad Daley make it pretty much impossible to comply with them? You have to shoot at a range but no ranges allowed in the city? Isn't there an ongoing lawsuit there?

Seventh Circuit Federal Judges demolish the Chicago lawyer tasked with defending the Demented Dwarf's duplicitous and byzantine gun permitting scheme. The issue in question the the city's requirement for range firing to obtain a permit while at the same time banning ranges.

Ezell v. Chicago

In the argument, each side was given 20 minutes to argue their case. Alan Gura represented the plaintiffs and James A. Feldman was the attorney for the City of Chicago. After listening to the oral arguments, it seems that Judges Kanne and Sykes favored Ezell and Judge Rovner favored Chicago.

There were a number of good quotes that came out of the argument.

"The city has at once required range training for licensure and at the same time, banned them. How is that Constitutional?" Judge Sykes

"you're not planning or regulating, you're banning" Judge Sykes

"Is the City taking any steps towards REGULATING ranges?" Judge Rovner to which Mr. Feldman answered "no."

After Mr. Feldman went on about stray bullets and fights at gun ranges, Judge Kanne asked "Have you ever been to a firing range?" - answer - No

"Well by the looks of your briefs it looks like nobody who wrote the briefs had either" Judge Kanne

"How can you claim that the live-fire range training is so critical to licensing and yet claim it's not fundamental, it's not within the scope of the right. Those are mutually contradictory positions... " Judge Sykes

"Mr Gura, what would you like your preliminary injunction to say?" Judge Sykes

The only legal guns in Chicago are in the trunk of car of some guy passing through on I-90 going on a hunting trip to North Dakota. Mr. MacDonald may have won his case before the US Supreme Court, but that's not the Chicago way.