Daley thinks his new rule about gun ownership passes the constitutional mustard, but it looks ketchupy to me:
The ordinance permits citizens to register only one firearm a month. It bans all operational gun shops and shooting ranges within the city. The new regulations also require those who want to obtain a permit for a firearm to take classes and undergo at least one hour of training at a shooting range prior to receiving a license.
Individuals are not allowed to purchase guns within the city limits and may not obtain firearms by any means other than “inheritance.”
The ordinance mandates that an individual can only have one “functional” firearm in the home while all other firearms must be kept in a “broken down” state.
One a month equals 12 a year, which will inhibit self-defense in few if any households. So that seems not to be a problem. And maybe ditto for having only one gun that works, except where they’re coming in through more windows than one at same time.
But you have to leave the city to buy or learn how to use one and practice using it? The point is to discourage self-defense, but that’s been the idea all along.
Daley worries about a wild-west atmosphere, which is a (grim) laugh. That’s not how it is now?
Not to mention the inability to enforce current laws, meant to disarm bad guys but apparently inefficacious — another (grim) joke.
Blithe Spirit 
Daley has to know that the guns being used by the gang-bangers are not registered — such posturing is sick. When will someone talk about the basic problem which is an poorly-educated and uncivilized populace?
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I believe Oak Park should get both sides of the issue to join forces to attack gun violence. Get a group of concerned citizens to attend bond hearings, trials and sentencing hearings to insist upon maximum penalties and resist all plea bargains. If they are ignored get the lawyers and judges names and publish them in the local papers. It would not take many max sentences to get the word out that we are a community with no tollerance for armed thuggery.
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