CHICAGO – A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld ordinances barring the ownership of handguns in most cases in Chicago and suburban Oak Park, handing a sharp defeat to the National Rifle Association.
The Second Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing the right to bear arms is not an adequate basis for lawsuits attacking local gun ordinances, the three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
Chicago officials immediately praised the decision affirming a ruling in December by U.S. District Judge Milton I. Shadur.
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The NRA argued that the Second Amendment makes such local ordinances unconstitutional.Their lawsuit came in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that the Second Amendment entitles people to keep handguns at home for self protection.
I find it strange that one court can come to drastically different conclusions than a different court. Of course I am a layperson so maybe there is some nuance here that I just don’t understand?
I suspect the law is being deformed to fit whatever underlying preconceived notions the justices already have.
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