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Chicago gun control advocates dealt yet another major blow

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Gun control advocates just suffered a major blow in the nation’s third-largest city. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday in a lawsuit brought by Chicago resident Rhonda Ezell that it’s unconstitutional for the city to impose restrictions on gun ranges. The court said that city officials didn’t provide enough evidence to suggest that the city’s restrictions on gun ranges make residents any more safe. - Jon Street

The law in question sought to restrict gun range business locations to manufacturing areas, required that gun ranges be a certain distance away from residential areas, schools, parks and places of worship and required that anyone entering a gun range be at least 18 years old. “The city has provided no evidentiary support for these claims, nor has it established that limiting shooting ranges to manufacturing districts and distancing them from the multiple and various uses listed in the buffer-zone rule has any connection to reducing these risks,” the court’s opinion reads, according to the Chicago Tribune. The panel of three judges largely concluded that the city’s attempt at regulating gun ranges is at odds with citizens’ Second Amendment rights. ...

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