The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Chicago would ban the sale and possession of BB and pellet guns and any replica that shoots a projectile under a crackdown advanced by a City Council committee Thursday to prevent a repeat of a controversial summer shooting near Cabrini-Green.
A Daisy BB-gun made to look like a Smith & Wesson pistol was at the center of a bitter dispute between police and Near North Side residents that followed the August shooting of 14-year-old Ellis Woodland.
"The danger for a policeman is that, if he hesitates and it's not a replica, he could be killed. It places the officers in a tremendously dangerous situation. It also places our children in a tremendously dangerous situation," said Chicago Police Deputy Supt. Charles Williams.
No word yet from
William Hanhardt the former Chief of Detectives in Chicago on this one.No word yet on whether Chicago Aldermen have read the
Illinois State Constitution:
SECTION 22. RIGHT TO ARMS
Subject only to the police power, the right of the
individual citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be
infringed.
