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Tag: firearms
Police chief: Time to trade the war on drugs for a war on guns
Garry McCarthy again calls for tougher sentences for gun offenders.
Veteran state rep: Mayor Emanuel has failed us and police chief McCarthy must go
State Rep Ken Dunkin, one of the leaders of the legislative black caucus, says city leaders are clueless about fighting violent crime in Chicago.
Court rulings keep firing away at Chicago’s gun laws
Successful Second Amendment challenges have reshaped gun-control policies and politics well beyond the city limits.
This week’s Chicagoan: TD Roe, competitive shooter and firearms instructor
This week’s Chicagoan is TD Roe, competitive shooter and firearms instructor.
Chicago’s gun laws keep getting tougher, but more people are breaking them
Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the country, but it’s not clear what they’re accomplishing.
Demand for gun control surges, and so does demand for guns
Illinois may be the center of our nation’s confusing and contradictory approach to firearms
School-rampage shootings are rare, which is why they’re hard to prevent
We look for causes and cures, understandably. But there are unique circumstances in each of these tragedies.
Federal court rips Chicago’s gun-range ban as the City Council dumps it
Just a day after seeing it for the first time, aldermen on Wednesday signed off on the Emanuel administration’s ordinance scrapping the city’s ban on gun ranges. Such swiftness is nothing new—last year the council passed the Daley administration’s new gun ownership law just a day after it was introduced and well before most aldermen […]