Concealed carry wins in Illinois, white guys carry fake hand-written signs

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48. Only on paper.

No, thanks to too cute by half regulations implemented (must have live fire training, but there shall be no publicly accessible ranges in the city; etc) the number of legally owned handguns has went up a minuscule amount.

First Daley then Rahn have lost three (or is it now four) cases where Chicago makes a small change to the law that still amounts to a virtual ban.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-07-22/news/ct-met-chicago-gun-laws-20120722_1_gun-control-firearms-ordinance-legal-gun

Alan Gura, who represented the NRA in the landmark Supreme Court cases against Chicago andWashington, D.C., said there are many problems with Chicago's ordinance. After the federal appeals court ordered Chicago last year to allow gun ranges, the city rewrote the ordinance in a way that sill amounted to a de facto ban, he said.

"Upon losing a case, the city makes some symbolic changes and digs in for the inevitable," said Gura, who also represents plaintiffs in the suit, Ezell v. City of Chicago. "In Ezell, the city chose to defy the court and re-enact what is, for all intents and purposes, another range ban. And it's defending this absurdity with the legal equivalent of nuclear war."

After the Supreme Court forced the city to drop its long-held ban on handguns and allow residents to have the firearms at home for protection, Daley pushed his Law Department to come up with a new ordinance that could withstand constitutional challenges.

Though several key elements of the ordinance have yet to be decided, legal action by gun-rights advocates has forced the city to spend roughly $375,000 on outside counsel to defend them since Emanuel took office in May of last year.

And that's after the $400k check written to Gura in February..

http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/City-Writes-399950-Check-To-Gun-Rights-Group-138940944.html