Chicago handgun ban upheld

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Despite the recent ruling that the second amendment IS an individual right, an appeals court has ruled that Chicagos handgun ban will stand because Chicago is not a federal entity as is the District of Columbia, where a similar ban was ruled unconstitutional. If allowed to stand a precedent may be set that your local government can VIOLATE YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AS A UNITED STATES CITIZEN! These are indeed worrisome times we live in.   

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It is interesting that the 7th Circuit ignored the precedent and arguments in Nordyke v. King provided by the 9th Circuit.

When it gets to the Supreme Court it will be possible for it to rule in favor of incorporation under the Fourteeth Amendment as Scalia implied that it would if that were the matter before it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_(Bill_of_Rights)

Illinois' Constitution is about as weasely as it gets regarding gun rights.  Its not really a right if government can infringe on it based on its definition of police powers.  If this ruling stands, then gun owners in Illinois are screwed.

SECTION 22. RIGHT TO ARMS
    Subject only to the police power, the right of the
individual citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be
infringed.