Couple Challenges Ban On Guns In In-Home Daycares

By Tom Knighton

If you have a home-based business, do you automatically give up your rights? Most people would think, “No, of course not.” They’d be right. Just because you have an open door for your home business, doesn’t mean the government the right to come in and search your house, after all.

But in Illinois, if you have a home-based daycare, you apparently can’t have a gun. Now, a couple has filed a lawsuit to challenge that ban.

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has been named in a federal lawsuit filed this week challenging the agency’s firearms policy for home day cares.

Jennifer and Darin Miller have three children in their Shelbyville home as well as current Illinois firearms cards and concealed carry licenses. However, although Jennifer was licensed by IDCFS last year to run a daycare in her home, the agency has guidelines against possessing loaded handguns in their home while operating the daycare. This, argues the Millers and a trio of gun rights organizations supporting their suit, tramples their right to keep and bear arms.

“IDCFS substantially prohibits day care home licensees, and those who would be day care home licensees, from the possession of …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms