Mayor Daley lays out strict gun rules for Chicago

[GoNRA 12]

CHICAGO -- With the city's gun ban certain to be overturned, Mayor Richard Daley on Thursday introduced what city officials say is the strictest handgun ordinance in the United States.

 

The measure, which draws from ordinances around the country, would ban gun shops in Chicago and prohibit gun owners from stepping outside their homes, even onto their porches or garages, with a handgun.

 

Daley announced his ordinance at a park on the city's South Side three days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Americans have a right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live. The City Council is expected to vote on it Friday.

 

"As long as I'm mayor, we will never give up or give in to gun violence that continues to threaten every part of our nation, including Chicago," said Daley, who was flanked by activists, city officials and the parents of a teenager whose son was shot and killed on a city bus while shielding a friend.

 

The ordinance, which Daley urged the City Council to pass, also would :

 

-- Limit the number of handguns residents can register to one per month and prohibit residents from having more than one handgun in operating order at any given time.

 

-- Require residents in homes with children to keep them in lock boxes or equipped with trigger locks.

 

-- Require prospective gun owners to take a four-hour class and one-hour training at a gun range. They would have to leave the city for training because Chicago prohibits new gun ranges and limits the use of existing ranges to police officers. Those restrictions were similar to those in an ordinance passed in Washington, D.C., after the high court struck down its ban two years ago.

 

-- Prohibit people from owning a gun if they were convicted of a violent crime, domestic violence or two or more convictions for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Residents convicted of a gun offense would have to register with the police department.

 

-- Calls for the police department to maintain a registry of every handgun owner in the city, with the names and addresses to be made available to police officers, firefighters and other emergency responders.

 

Those who already have handguns in the city -- which has been illegal since the city's ban was approved 28 years ago -- would have 90 days to register those weapons, according to the proposed ordinance.

 

Residents convicted of violating the city's ordinance can face a fine up to $5,000 and be locked up for as long as 90 days for a first offense and a fine of up to $10,000 and as long as six months behind bars for subsequent convictions.

 

"We've gone farther than anyone else ever has," said Corporation Counsel Mara Georges.

 

Still, the mayor, whose office is trying to craft an ordinance that will withstand legal challenges, had to back off some provisions he'd hoped to include, including requiring gun owners to insure their weapons and restricting each resident to one handgun.

 

Georges said it would be expensive for homeowners to include guns on their homeowners' and renters' insurance policies, so such a requirement could be seen as being discriminatory to the city's poorer residents. Limiting the number of handguns could be seen as discriminatory to people who owned weapons before the city's ban went into effect in 1982 or before they moved into the city.

 

"We can limit the place in which those handguns can be located," she said, before adding a not-so-veiled swipe at the court: "For instance, the Supreme court does not want them coming into the courthouse."

 

Still, Daley indicated that no matter what was included in the ordinance, he expects legal challenges.

 

"Everybody has a right to sue," he said.

[GoNRA 12]

This guy is a nut job

[Malsua 1,422]

With the exception of the training, pretty much just like NJ.

[kenw 293]

I'm sure Lautenberg is taking notes. Coming soon to a legislature near you.

[e80hydro 120]

"Those who already have handguns in the city -- which has been illegal since the city's ban was approved 28 years ago -- would have 90 days to register those weapons, according to the proposed ordinance"

 

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Is he refering to the gangbangers?

[bulpup 98]

"As long as I'm mayor, we will never give up or give in to gun violence that continues to threaten every part of our nation, including Chicago," said Daley,

 

Yea, that's what you'll be doing by abiding by the Constitution. :roll:

[unclenunzie 3]

I predict a seriously ugly can of legal whoop@$$ will be opened up on the Daley's Chicago mob. I have seen some folks suggest it is GOOD for 2A for them to get every bit of infringing nonsense on the table, so it can be swept aside in legal challenges in big chunks. I have also seen references to fundamental COTUS rights given the highest form of judicial scrutiny (strict). If so, the 2A would be comparable to 1A regarding legal challenges. IANAL, but this would mean only convicted felons and mental cases could be outright denied.

 

I think for the poor souls in Chicago as well as NY and NJ, reviving national CCW reciprocity at the federal level would be the fastest and best way to end this nonsense. We had 58 senators last time and upcoming November maybe we could swing 2 more. I think after McDonald and with 60 on board, Obama would sign it. Now THAT would burn that Daley SOB and I'd love to watch him melt down.

 

The arrogance of him and his cohorts in referencing no carry into courthouses, an obvious stab at the SCOTUS. That man needs to be sued into the ground and imprisoned.

 

Title 18, U.S.C., Section 242

Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law

 

This statute makes it a crime for any person acting under color of law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to willfully deprive or cause to be deprived from any person those rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the U.S.

 

This law further prohibits a person acting under color of law, statute, ordinance, regulation or custom to willfully subject or cause to be subjected any person to different punishments, pains, or penalties, than those prescribed for punishment of citizens on account of such person being an alien or by reason of his/her color or race.

 

Acts under "color of any law" include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within the bounds or limits of their lawful authority, but also acts done without and beyond the bounds of their lawful authority; provided that, in order for unlawful acts of any official to be done under "color of any law," the unlawful acts must be done while such official is purporting or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties. This definition includes, in addition to law enforcement officials, individuals such as Mayors, Council persons, Judges, Nursing Home Proprietors, Security Guards, etc., persons who are bound by laws, statutes ordinances, or customs.

 

Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to one year, or both, and if bodily injury results or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire shall be fined or imprisoned up to ten years or both, and if death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

[Guest]

hey dumb ass.. when it comes to safety your city is a train wreck... your goofy gun laws are only making ONE group safer.. and that is.. CRIMINALS

[Z71 4]

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2010/07/daley-unveils-gun-control-plan.html

FOID= $38

firearm permit to register handguns= $100 every 3 yrs

adults aged 18-21 need parental signature

[tommy3rd 132]

The measure, which draws from ordinances around the country...

Did they mean "New Jersey" instead of "around the country"? They must have called our legislators here and asked " hey, what did you guys do?"

[Guest]

hey, what did you guys do?"

 

 

and THEN did everything they could to "one up" our ridiculous policy..

[djg0770 481]

adults aged 18-21 need parental signature

 

That's idiotic.

[nickd308 0]

The ordinance should also force all his bodyguards to not carry as well. Let's see if he feels safe from gun violence....a$$hole!

[georgemc 18]

The ordinance should also force all his bodyguards to not carry as well. Let's see if he feels safe from gun violence....a$$hole!

I couldn't agree more with this..should apply to all Politicians.

[bbk 188]

I agree with the consensus that these ridiculous measures being put in place do nothing to even somewhat solving the issue. Is there a lot of gun related violence in Chicago? Yes. But where in any of these measures is the primary objective being addressed? This seems like he's just butt-hurt over the ruling, and is taking it out on the industry (and, in turn, law abiding citizens).

[NicePants 58]

 

>My face while reading about Mayor Daley.