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Four Chicago residents, including Otis McDonald, challenged a Chicago ordinance that required the registration of firearms while accepting no registrations that post-dated the implementation of a handgun ban in 1982.
12 Νοε 2018 · Case Summary of McDonald v. Chicago: Chicago residents, concerned about their own safety, challenged the City of Chicago’s handgun ban.
Last Term, in McDonald v. City of Chicago,1 the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is fully en-forceable against the states by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment.2 This decision reaffirmed the articulation of the right as previously de-fined in District of Columbia v. Heller.3 But this case also presented
2 Μαρ 2010 · Several suits were filed against Chicago and Oak Park in Illinois challenging their gun bans after the Supreme Court issued its opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller. In that case, the Supreme Court held that a District of Columbia handgun ban violated the Second Amendment.
McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), was a landmark [1] decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that found that the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms", as protected under the Second Amendment, is incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment and is thereby enforceable against the states.
Petitioners Otis McDonald, Adam Orlov, Colleen Lawson, David Lawson, Second Amendment Foun-dation, Inc. and Illinois State Rifle Association initiated the proceedings below by filing a complaint against Respondent City of Chicago and its Mayor, Richard M. Daley, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Following this ruling, several lawsuits were filed against the cities of Chicago and Oak Park challenging their gun bans and claiming that the Second Amendment also applies to the states. The district court dismissed the suits, Plaintiffs appealed and the appellate court affirmed.
