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Chicago Required Gun Training, Then Banned Every Place to Train - Ammoland.com
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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Federal Judge Deals Final Death Blow to ATF’s ‘Engaged in the Business’ Rule - Ammoland.com
A federal district court judge dealt a death blow to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ remaining efforts to salvage parts of its controversial “engaged in the business” (EIB) rule. On August 13, 2026, U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas denied the Department of Justice’s motion to alter or amend his earlier final judgment, holding that the entire 2024 Final Rule remains vacated.
Under former President Joe Biden, the ATF issued a Final Rule in April 2024 that dramatically expanded who needs a federal firearms license (FFL) to sell guns. The rule relied on language in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) of 2022, which amended the Gun Control Act’s definition of being “engaged in the business” of dealing in firearms. Congress replaced the prior “principal objective of livelihood and profit” standard with a requirement that a person devote time, attention, and labor to dealing in firearms “to predominantly earn a profit” through repetitive purchase and resale.
ATF Tried to Turn Private Gun Owners Into Dealers
The ATF went much further. The agency declared that the primary purpose of a sale need not be profit for an FFL to be required. Simply advertising or offering a firearm for sale could trigger the licensing mandate. The rule created a series of presumptions under which a seller was treated as a dealer unless the individual could prove otherwise. Gun rights advocates correctly labeled the regulation a back-door attempt at universal background checks that would criminalize ordinary private sales between law-abiding citizens.
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