{"id":682602,"date":"2010-03-04T13:20:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T18:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f81\/court-should-toss-out-chicago-ban-40335\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T18:20:55","slug":"court-should-toss-out-chicago-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/682602","title":{"rendered":"Court should toss out Chicago ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Posted: 03.03.10 11:32 PM<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a strict handgun ban in the District of Columbia. Now the court is considering a strict gun ban in Chicago. But there&#8217;s a big difference between the two cases. The D.C. case covered only federal jurisdictions. According to a McClatchy Newspapers story, &quot;District of Columbia v. Heller applied only to federal jurisdictions, because the Bill of Rights, as originally written, covers federal but not state and local governance.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/News\/Read\/InTheNews.aspx?ID=13514\" >http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/News\/Read\/InTheNews.aspx?ID=13514<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted: 03.03.10 11:32 PM In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a strict handgun ban in the District of Columbia. Now the court is considering a strict gun ban in Chicago. But there&#8217;s a big difference between the two cases. The D.C. case covered only federal jurisdictions. According to a McClatchy Newspapers story, &quot;District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2752,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RzI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}