CHICAGO (WBBM) -- Chicago’s gun laws have been challenged in federal court since the Supreme Court’s decision on the D.C. ban. But, City Corporation Counsel Mara Georges has told two City Council committees she’s confident Chicago’s law will stand.
Georges tells Aldermen the Supreme Court’s decision on Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban shouldn’t apply to Chicago, because previous Supreme Court rulings have said Second Amendment "right to bear arms" doesn’t apply to local governments, like Cities. She says D.C. is a federal jurisdiction.
And Georges is confident that, and other arguments, will prevail, at least in the lower courts. But, she admits, it’s hard to predict what the current Supreme Court will do. Still, it could be years before we find out.
The executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association is reacting to Georges' comments. Richard Pearson says they'll be pressing forward with their federal lawsuit against Chicago's ban and he says it will be up to the court to decide. He says there has been about 78 Supreme Court rulings on the subject, and if they have to go all the way to the Supreme Court to overturn Chicago's ban, that's what they'll do.
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