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McDonald vs Chicago in action

By: Raven (Diary)  |  July 2nd, 2010 at 04:25 PM  | 

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I may be reading this wrong, but I think this Federal Judge just declared Wisconsin to no longer require a permit to carry and that carrying inside courthouses and the like was also permitted.

DC Gun Rights Examiner

The relevant excerpt:

OFFICE OF GERALD R. FOX
JACKSON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY
NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release June 29, 2010
DISTRICT ATTORNEY GERALD FOX’S STATEMENT ON THE
U. S. SUPREME COURT’S DECISION IN MCDONALD v. CITY OF CHICAGO

…I hereby declare that this office will no longer accept law enforcement referrals for violations of the following statutes:

Section 167.31, prohibiting uncased or loaded firearms in vehicles;
Section 941.23, prohibiting the carrying of concealed weapons, including firearms;
Section 941.235, prohibiting the possession of firearms in public buildings;
Section 941.237, prohibiting the possession of firearms in establishments where alcohol may be sold or served; and,
Section 941.24, prohibiting the possession of knives that open with a button, or by gravity, or thrust, or movement.

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  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    “Only by the strictest adherence to firearm safety rules and common sense will we show that the elitists who seek to disarm all of us are wrong, and that every law abiding citizen can be trusted to protect themselves and their neighbors safely.”

    Yeah, buddy.

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    ……and the PDF from the county’s District Attorney.

    http://www.co.jackson.wi.us/html/district%20attorney/Documents/McDonald%20vs.%20City%20of%20Chicago.pdf

  • http://thefloridaprecinctproject.wordpress.com/ PrecinctPatriot

    While the Heller decision was limited to the specific ruling on maintaining a handgun in the home for self defense, Scalia laid the groundwork to cover carrying a weapon outside of the home. Hidden in Heller is the seed that will be used to overthrow restrictive carry laws. Scalia included these words on page 10:

    ?At the time of the founding, as now, to ?bear? meant to ?carry.? See Johnson 161; Webster; T. Sheridan, A Complete Dictionary of the English Language (1796); 2 Oxford English Dictionary 20 (2d ed. 1989) (hereinafter Oxford). When used with ?arms,? however, the term has a meaning that refers to carrying for a particular purpose confrontation. In Muscarello v. United States, 524 U. S. 125 (1998), in the course of analyzing the meaning of ?carries a firearm? in a federal criminal statute, JUSTICE GINSBURG wrote that ?[s]urely a most familiar meaning is, as the Constitution?s Second Amendment . . . indicate[s]: ?wear, bear, or carry . . . upon the person or in the clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose . . . of being armed and ready for offensive or defensive action in a case of conflict with another person.?

    And page 19;
    c. Meaning of the Operative Clause. Putting all of these textual elements together, we find that they guarantee the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation?

    Now that McDonald has confirmed that the 14th amendment imposes the 2nd amendment on state and local governments, we are ready to tackle the next milestone, ?to bear arms?.

    Chicago will continue their prohibition on ?carrying? outside of the home. That will allow a challenge to be brought up to the Supremes while they still have a majority.

    • Achance

      of men. As some former Confederate said at the time of the Chicago fire, “Chicago’s burning, and the wind’s in our favor.”

      • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

        I’ll get the grid coordinates.