Is Chicago's New Gun Law Legal? | Chicago Personal Injury Attorney

BULLET PROOF: After a series of court challenges, will the city?s firearms ordinance pass legal muster?
By Geoffrey Johnson

With near-daily shootings across Chicago this summer?not to mention the tragic July rampage in Aurora, Colorado?grabbing headlines recently, guns and gun laws are top of mind. And as it happens, just around the time of the multiplex massacre, Chicago aldermen had begun to redraft the city?s firearms ordinance.

As you may know, the city outlawed the sale and possession of handguns way back in 1982. (Not that the move was very successful in disarming Chicagoans: Police here confiscate an average of about 10,000 firearms each year.) In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the handgun ban, saying it was in violation of the Second Amendment.

Is Chicago?s New Gun Law Legal?

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