CHICAGO (WLS) —
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Office will propose a new ordinance to restrict the legal sale of guns in Chicago after a ban on stores was found unconstitutional.
It’s been more than three decades since stores could legally sell handguns in Chicago. But now the handgun ban is gone and concealed carry is the law.
Federal court has said Chicago must again permit stores to sell handguns to those who meet legal requirements. While not happy with that, the mayor has a plan that he intends to roll out to Chicago City Council Wednesday.
The city lost its bid to keep retail gun sales beyond its borders. So now, the Emanuel administration is proposing an ordinance that would so tightly restrict stores selling guns that more than 95-percent of the city would be off-limits to the stores.
“We’re gonna do it in a smart, tough and enforceable way to prevent illegal guns in the city of Chicago,” Mayor Emanuel said at a police awards ceremony on Tuesday.
The mayor didn’t outline many specifics, and his office released some bullet points in draft form, but many of them are geared to lessoning straw purchases in which the legally purchased gun ends up in the hands of someone else, as in the shooting death of Endia Martin, 14.
One provision of the proposed ordinance would require that anyone buying a gun would be recorded on video at the point of sale, and that the tape would become part of legal record.
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