Year: 2008

Evanston, IL has modified its gun ban to be in line with the Heller ruling:

The National Rifle Association sued Evanston and other Illinois communities with gun bans after the court ruled in June that a gun ban in Washington, D.C., is unconstitutional.

In response the city’s legal staff drafted a new ordinance that would let most residents keep guns in their homes, but ban possession of most guns by minors and of all guns by narcotics addicts, mental patients, the mentally retarded and persons under 21 years of age with criminal records.

That’s probably good enough to get the lawsuit dropped.  Hat tip to Carl in Chicago.

Philadelphia will begin enforcing its law requiring victims of theft to report their stolen firearms to police or face jail time and a hefty fine.  This law is probably illegal under Pennsylvania’s preemption statute, but someone has to be charged before they will have standing to raise that challenge in court.

A federal judge has denied a preliminary injunction in the case of GeorgiaCarry.org and Atlanta-Hartfield International Airport.  This doesn’t mean they lost the case, just that the judge doesn’t view that they are substantially likely to win.  I see a few problems with this line of reasoning.

1. One is that the TSA doesn’t currently prohibit guns in the non-sterile area of the airports
2. Two, the TSA doesn’t appear to have any unilateral authority to do so.
3. Three, there’s no law in Georgia making carrying a firearm in an airport a crime.

So I tend to think they have a strong likelihood of winning their case, but this goes to show how hazardous it is to depend on the federal courts for enforcement of gun rights.

UPDATE: The federal judge in question is a notoriously liberal Carter appointee.  So take that for what it’s worth.