From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 30 2001 - 23:27:52 MDT
>From: Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com>
>In 1982 then Mayor Jane Byrne and the city council successfully
>passed a law that said it was illegal to own an unregistered
>handgun in Chicago. (they exempted themselves of course.)
>
>Then the city promptly refused to register any new handguns.
>
>Result? a de-facto handgun ban. Handguns have been completely
>illegal in Chicago for almost 20 years.
Wow! That's amazing. Is the NRA fighting that? Or have they given up by
now?
-Zero
"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)
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