SAF, ISRA sue Chicago and Mayor Daley for violations of the Second Amendment INCORPORATED

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http://www.chicagoguncase.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/complaint.pdf

FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION – HANDGUN BAN
RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
U.S. CONST., AMENDS. II AND XIV, 42 U.S.C. § 1983

47. Paragraphs 1 through 46 are incorporated as though fully stated herein.

48. The Second Amendment right is incorporated as against the states and their
political subdivisions pursuant to the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

49. The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is a privilege and immunity
of United States citizenship which, pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment, states and their political subdivisions may not violate.

Alan Gura, attorney for the plaintiffs, with momentum from his historic DC v. Heller win!

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http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/new-case-tests-second-amendments-reach/

Because this is only a complaint to start a case, there is no full-scale argument defending the notion that the Amendment — now protecting an individual right to have a handgun for self-defense at home — applies to state and local government. The Supreme Court, in finding an individual right byits ruling Thursday in District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290), said it was not deciding whether the Amendment went beyond federal laws (or laws of the federal capital in Washington, D.C.). That is what the new lawsuit raises directly.

“The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is a privilege and immunity of United States citizenship which, pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment, states and their political subdivisions may not violate,” the complaint argues. “Handguns, as a class of weapons, are ‘arms’ whose possession by law-abiding adult citizens is protected by the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.”

Joining in the lawsuit is the Second Amendment Foundation, an advocacy group, and the Illinois State Rifle Association. The individuals in the case are Otis McDonald, a Chicago resident who says he lives in a high-crime neighborhood and has been threatened by drug dealers; Adam Orlov, who lives in Chicago and is a former police officer in Evanston, Ill., and Colleen and David Lawson, Chicago residents who say their home has been targeted by burglars.