More than a decade before the Supreme Court struck down Hawaii’s attempt to make lawful carry practically impossible in Wolford v. Lopez, Chicago tried the same basic trick with firearm ownership.
The city required residents to complete live-fire training before they could obtain the permit necessary to possess a firearm. Chicago then banned every public firing range within city limits.
You had to train before you could lawfully own a gun, but the city prohibited you from training. That was not public-safety regulation. It was a handgun ban rebuilt with paperwork.
The Seventh Circuit saw through it in Ezell v. City of Chicago, 651 F.3d 684 (7th Cir. 2011).
Chicago’s Post-McDonald End Run
For nearly three decades, Chicago effectively prohibited ordinary citizens from possessing handguns. The Supreme Court put an end to that in McDonald v. City of Chicago, holding that the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments through the Fourteenth Amendment.
Chicago’s political class did not accept that decision gracefully.
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