{"id":33185,"date":"2012-12-11T14:25:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T18:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33185"},"modified":"2012-12-11T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T19:52:18","slug":"appeals-court-strikes-down-ils-ban-on-concealed-carry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33185","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court strikes down IL&#8217;s ban on concealed carry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-PH2 sends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgntv.com\/news\/wgntv-court-strikes-down-illinois-concealedcarry-ban-20121211,0,6031603.story\">us a WGN link<\/a> to the announcement that a Federal appeals court has struck down Illinois&#8217; ban on concealed carry;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Justices said the right to bear arms for self-defense is as important outside the home as inside.<\/p>\n<p>The court gave Illinois lawmakers six months to put its own version of the law in place.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois is the only state in the nation not to have some form of conceal carry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Added From <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wls\/story?section=news%2Flocal&#038;id=8916267\">ABCNews<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Richard Posner wrote in the court&#8217;s majority opinion. &#8220;The theoretical and empirical evidence (which overall is inconclusive) is consistent with concluding that a right to carry firearms in public may promote self-defense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued: &#8220;Illinois had to provide us with more than merely a rational basis for believing that its uniquely sweeping ban is justified by an increase in public safety. It has failed to meet this burden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The court ordered its ruling stayed &#8220;to allow the Illinois legislature to craft a new gun law that will impose reasonable limitations, consistent with the public safety and the Second Amendment as interpreted in this opinion, on the carrying of guns in public,&#8221; Posner said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess the thugs, both the public and private variety, are shaking in their respective boots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-PH2 sends us a WGN link to the announcement that a Federal appeals court has struck &hellip; <a title=\"Appeals court strikes down IL&#8217;s ban on concealed carry\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33185\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Appeals court strikes down IL&#8217;s ban on concealed carry<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}