The Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear a case challenging Chicago's draconian gun laws on early this month.
Chicago has long had some of the nation's strictest gun laws. Chicago mandates that all firearms be registered but does not allow handguns to be registered. This makes hand guns illegal in the city unless they were grandfathered in (if you had a permit before 1982).
On the heels of a victory for gun owner's rights with Distrcit of Columbia vs. Heller, where the Supreme Court held that D.C.'s ban on hand guns was illegal, the NRA filled a case that ran in conjunction with similar Chicago cases to challenge their laws.
Mayor Daley and others that would stifle Chicago gun owner rights claim that the ban and others like it are necessary to control the crime rate in the city. Yet since this law has been in place the crime rate in Chicago has spiraled out of control; far exceeding the rest of the country.
The criminals don't care about gun laws and they know that law abiding citizens aren't armed so it's open season! There has never been any evidence that a strict gun control policy lowers crime.
Hopefully the Supreme Court let's Mayor Daley and Chicago know that you can't rob people of their rights in an attempt to appease the media and make your self look tough on crime.