BELLEVUE, WA – -(Ammoland.com)- A federal court judge in Illinois has denied a City of Chicago motion for summary judgment and refused to dismiss a case challenging a ban of firearms sales within city limits that is backed by the Second Amendment Foundation.
It is the latest in a string of court battles between Chicago and SAF, causing SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb to observe;
“We’ve already beat Chicago three times, in the McDonald case before the Supreme Court, and both Ezell 1 and Ezell 2 before the federal court of appeals. I’m reminded of the folk song by Peter, Paul and Mary that asked, ‘When will they ever learn’?”
The case involves a proposed gun shop called Second Amendment Arms (SAA), owned by R. Joseph Franzese, who submitted an application for a business license in July 2010. The city contends that the application was for an address in an area not zoned for commercial use, but Franzese argues that he was not advised about the zoning and that it had been advertised as commercial property. Besides, he contended that the city’s prohibition on gun sales “would have blocked (their) efforts no matter where (they) chose.”
“The City of Chicago under Rahm Emanuel is trying to be too clever by half,” Gottlieb said. “We would have thought by now that they would have ceased this pattern of spending tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on stubborn litigation, but the city seems determined to be dragged kicking and screaming into compliance with the Second Amendment.
U.S. District Court Judge Robert M. Dow, Jr., set Sept. 28 2017 as the next date to discuss damages for the plaintiff in this case, which is known as Second Amendment Arms v. City of Chicago.
“Since losing its gun ban fight in the Supreme Court’s 2010 McDonald ruling,” Gottlieb noted, “Chicago has been digging its heels in deeper and deeper, throwing every kind of legal roadblock it could in an effort to delay what seems inevitable. The city has got to follow the law and the constitution, and as long as they keep fighting, we’ll keep suing.
“That’s what winning firearms freedom one lawsuit at a time is all about,” he concluded.
The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.
Sure glad I moved to Iowa.
The band Chicago does not endorse the use of it’s logo in this article.
The city of chicago and state gov ignoring the law of the land as handed down by the Supreme Court and some commenting here are worried about the use of a bands logo! No wonder america is in trouble. Some folks priorities are upside down.
Rahm Emanuel should be arrested for failure to uphold his Oath. It is about time that politicians learned that there are consequences for not complying with the United States Constitution.
Hey SAF and AMMOLAND. How about using something besides the LOGO for the band Chicago for your graphic ? Are you clueless about the band Chicago. They have nothing to do with your lawsuit.
If you guys don’t know the logo for Chicago, you guys are the losers.
I support SAF but this time you screwed the pooch.
It would seem that if I thumbed my nose at a court ruling against me, I would wind up in jail. If this is true, it begs the question as to why these socialist trash aren’t in jail for thumbing their noses at the court?
The Supreme Court is the superior court of the United States of America, every other court in the Constitution are considered the inferior courts. Chicago’s leaders think that they do not have to follow the Supreme Court’s decisions, then they utilize the inferior courts for strong arming their selfish agendas, at the expense of the Chicago/Cook County tax payers. Chicago is the huge Loser, recent past history proves that. The political leaders of Chicago/Cook County are the criminals fleecing the public through their inability to entice new business/manufacturing into the state. Their only solution is to tax what ever is… Read more »
Of course the city is fighting it. They don’t want the sheep having claws and teeth. Also, whoever is supplying the black market guns, including fully automatic military grade weaponry to the criminals hates any competition.
Fine, but why use someone else’s intellectual property in your graphic (the logo of the band Chicago)? It’s not necessary and will just bring you headaches. I’d rather your money go to the cause.