Charlotte, NC –-(Ammoland.com)- For the second time in as many years, Chicago taxpayers will be forced to foot the bill for their politicians’ insistence on pursuing unconstitutional gun control. In early July, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ordered Chicago to pay $940,000 to the NRA.
The order stems from an NRA victory in the lawsuit Illinois Association of Firearms Retailers v. Chicago. Back in January, Judge Edmond E. Chang of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois invalidated Chicago’s complete ban on firearm sales in the city.
Chang wrote that “Chicago’s ordinance goes too far in outright banning legal buyers and legal dealers from engaging in lawful acquisitions and lawful sales of firearms.”
Under federal law, in certain circumstances, the prevailing party in civil rights cases is to be reimbursed for the costs of the litigation, a provision which in this case applied to NRA.
Unfortunately, Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and the Chicago City Council have flouted Judge Chang’s ruling, circumventing it with an ordinance enacting onerous rules on potential firearms dealers operating within the city. The ordinance imposes numerous burdens on would-be store owners, including severe zoning restrictions, extensive paperwork requirements, handgun rationing, waiting periods, and a mandate to video-record every sale.
These new restrictions will no doubt lead to further legal wrangling. In a city that experiences a notorious amount of crime, providing additional funds to law enforcement, rather than to quixotic legal battles to curb the rights of residents, would surely be a better investment.
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Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the “lobbying” arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.org
Too bad I moved to Iowa and can’t help pay for it with my tax money. Bwahahahaha! I’d rather give my money directly to the NRA than filter it through the crooked Chicago machine.
The mayor is so arrogant, just watch him in his press conferences, ‘already answered’. so rude.
It is asking too much but it would be nice if the crooks that run Chicago were voted out & put in jail. That city has been a cesspool since the days of Capone. Wake up folks of Chicago
I can’t figure out if this qualifies as “Racketeering” or a “Ponzi Scheme”?
Don’t feel too sad for most of the taxpayers in Chicago, they’re the same idiots that voted for the mayor.
Sad that the taxpayers foot the bill of a controlling socialist mayor , who has no respect of the Constitution.
It should not be the tax payers but the Mayor who foots the bill. Only then will these people “think” before they act on something unconstitutional.