The NRA says Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley has deliberately defied the ruling of the Supreme Court. The Justices overturned Chicago’s ban on handguns in the city and 4 days later, city aldermen unanimously approved the most-strict regulations on gun ownership in the nation; 45-0.  Daley and his team have carefully crafted the ordinance in an attempt to dodge any conflicts with the supreme-court ruling, but at a press conference the Mayor made it clear that he is ready for a fight. “As long as I’m Mayor, I will never give up or give in to gun violence that continues to threaten every part of our nation including Chicago,” He said at a press conference announcing his counter to the ruling.

The ordinance begrudgingly allows gun owner ship but slaps a host of regulations on top of it. Some of the key regulations are as follows:

Gun owners need a Chicago Firearms permit, which costs $100 and must be renewed every 3 years, in addition to their Illinois Firearm owner’s ID.

Firearms sales are banned in the city.

Chicago residents can register only 1 handgun per month.

When a weapon is transported it much be taken apart and not accessible.

It is illegal to have your gun on the porch, yard or Garage. The gun is only legal inside the residence.

Only one gun in the house can be ready to be fired.  The rest must have trigger locks or be disassembled.

Guns are banned from hotels, dorms or group living environments.

Daley and the rest of Chicago’s politicians are out in front in the effort to restrict guns because Chicago has such a severe problem with gun violence. Street battles in the trouble spots have left 209 dead already this year, doubling the violence in Los Angeles, tripling New York City.  Video of intense gun battles has been splashed all over the evening news and the pressure mounts on politicians to do something about it.

Their first response was to ban guns in the city and the Supreme Court said they couldn’t do that.  According to Chris Cox, Chief Lobbyist with the NRA, Daley and his aldermen are doing it again. “They can make it unaffordable, unattainable, throw up so many hoops and hurdles the net effect is that it discourages someone’s ability to exercise that right (Gun ownership as provided by the Second Amendment.)” Says Cox.