Posted October 24, 2018 2:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Judge Joseph Claps was in pretty deep water. He supposedly had a firearm in a prohibited area, namely the Cook County Courthouse. You see, despite being a judge and angering a lot of people as a routine part of his job, Cook County made no provision for anyone other than law enforcement to carry a firearm inside the courthouse.

Cook County takes after the city it encompasses–Chicago–and has no love for citizens being able to defend themselves.

Luckily for Judge Claps, he’s getting to walk.

A Cook County judge on Tuesday was acquitted of misdemeanor charges for allegedly carrying a gun into the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.

Surveillance videos appear to show a handgun falling out of Judge Joseph Claps’ jacket as he walked through the lobby of the courthouse on July 3, passing within about a foot of a uniformed sheriff’s deputy as the alleged weapon drops.

But, crucially, as the judge casually picked up the purported pistol and tucked it into his pocket, he continued walking. Two deputies saw the alleged gun hit the floor, but neither stopped Claps nor took the gun from him, choosing instead to notify a supervisor.

Claps was charged two days later with carrying a firearm into …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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