The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Mayor Daley said today he's all for the idea of temporarily re-opening gun registration in Chicago -- not as a favor to Ald. Richard Mell (33rd), but to get a realistic handle on the number of guns in Chicago.
A former hunter, Mell is proposing a one-month amnesty after he forgot to re-register his arsenal of shotguns, rifles and pistols as required every year by the ordinance he helped to pass.
During the month-long window, gun owners who attempted to re-register their guns between May 1, 2007 and April 1, 2008 only to be rejected on grounds the registrations had lapsed would be allowed to re-register without penalty.
On Tuesday, Daley endorsed the idea without reservation. The mayor said Mell is not alone. A lot of gun owners have ignored the re-registration requirement and find themselves in the same predicament.
and this gem from the Sun-Times:
Chicago's ban on new handguns -- and a companion requirement that all existing guns be re-registered every year -- was pushed through the City Council in 1982 in the wake of the assassination attempts on former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II and the death of two police officers.
The Sun-Times forgot to mention
Alderman Roti's work on gun control.
