The End is Near: NRA Sues Illinois over Right to BEAR Arms

[TPaine7]

Chicago - Illinois’s ban on carrying firearms outside the home or business came under attack on a new front Friday. The National Rifle Association asked a federal judge in Southern Illinois to immediately declare it unconstitutional.

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On Wednesday, the Chicago-based U.S. Court of Appeals issued a scathing opinion striking down a portion of Chicago’s gun control regime. The ruling declared unconstitutional the city’s ban on public gun shooting ranges. Appellate Court Judge Ilana Diamond Rovner called the city’s law “a thumbing of the municipal nose at the U.S. Supreme Court.”

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/illinois-gun-concealed-carry-lawsuit-nra-unconstitutional-legal-lawsuit-court-20110708

Things are looking bad for the anti-rights, anti-Constitution, anti-self defense forces.

Hopefully, the judge will rule correctly and the goons in Chicago will be slapped down. In any event, this is a clear sign of the end.

[tularetom]

1. I hate it when I agree with a creepy organization like the NRA

But that's a bad law and it needs to go.

[ileus]

2. How does 3% keep the other 97% from a basic civil right?

[DonP]

3. A handful of Chicago politicians wag the entire Illinois dog

There are still a handful of Chicago politicos that manage to control the direction of the entire state, that includes short changing downstate school boards and transit organizations of funding to prop up Chicago's inefficient and corrupt organizations. Like the Cook county controlled toll authority. A couple of years ago the head of the authority, John "Quarters" Boyle got caught taking home hundreds of thousands of $ in tolls in his car every week. A short prison term and he was back working for city hall.

To give you an idea of what's going on; Friday, late afternoon Rahm issued a press release that he was "reducing the security coverage for Alderman Burke by two full time police and replacing them with 2 retired officers". He didn't say a thing about the 2 city cars, drivers and the 8 full time police guarding and driving Daley and his wife around.

Chicago is short over 1000 street cops and we're giving the former mayor with not only two large pensions, but a $200,000 gig at a Chicago law firm and another $165,000 position at the U of Chicago, free driver services and body guards for him and his wife for life.

I'm starting to think that Rahm's real job is just keeping the seat warm until one of the Daley sons or daughters is old enough to take over?

Maybe that's why he's fighting to keep every one of Daley's unconstitutional gun laws in place, in spite of the courts smacking his around and saying he's trying to be "too cute by half". But in the courts or at the ballot box they are going to lose. As soon as you hear the Chicago faction start to talk about "May issue" kind of control, you'll know they are desperate and ready to cave.

Oh, the latest estimates for the Chicago/Oak Park v. McDonald and the subsequent Ezell v. Chicago legals fees is $5 million for the taxpayers to cough up for Mr. Gura and friends at the SAF and ISRA!

[DWC]

4. Graft, corruption, and crime are tough businesses to be in

when the citizen victims have the tools to fight back.

With CCW coming, Chicago thug politics of violent threats and intimidation are in for a change.

Semper Fi,

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

8. I have working in...

...and have friends in Chicago.

As they have told me the 'thug politic' motto is: "Vote early and often." ;)

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

5. The control fanatics...

...ignore the basis which the country was founded upon. Armies and navies in the 18th century were frequently staffed through conscription. In this country the relationship between the citizen and the militia was fundamental. The idea that the people would control the military via among other means their voluntary staffing of the ranks is integral in making our type of military work for so many reasons. The US did raise a standing army in the revolution. Along with that army fought militia forces.

Many of the world's military forces lack a staff with the combination of skill at arms and esprit de corps found among our service men and women. In particular I will mention snipers. They are vital assets and this is not a skill that one learns in a few months of training. Hunting skills overlap some into sniper skills. Police SWAT snipers are no less vital.

A 1959 quote from John F. Kennedy: "By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms,' our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy... The Second Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important." JFK was a Life member of the NRA. No that NRA is not today's NRA but what did the NRA of 50 years ago represent for him? What organization is doing that same work today?

[TPaine7]

6. How dare you quote a Republican like Kennedy on this site?!!

Oh, wait...

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

7. Repulicans generally minimize...

...the impact of JFK or marginalize it by saying measures that were past were done so after 1963 and mostly sympathetically.

I think a that's mostly crap.

I'd like to see a party that spends more time on real issues than just mud-slinging. That goes for both parties today.

[mzmolly]

9. As long as they don't want to arm bears....

:crazy: