Posted April 12, 2019 6:30 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

The court found this week that the Second Amendment overrules the housing authority’s ability to bar legally possessed guns from resident’s homes. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
Gun rights groups allied with a domestic violence survivor won a case seeking to block an Illinois housing authority’s “no guns allowed” policies.
U.S. District Judge J. Phil Gilbert, an appointment by President George H. W. Bush to the federal bench, slapped down the East St. Louis Housing Authority’s gun prohibition in a three-page ruling issued this week.
The authority’s lease specifically restricts firearms possessed by the renter or guests “anywhere in the unit or elsewhere on the property” and the units are subject to “special inspections” at any time. This, argued the plaintiffs, amounts to a program that denies people their right to keep and bear arms simply because they are at a financial disadvantage and need government housing.
Gilbert agreed, saying, “Among whatever else, the Second Amendment protects the right of a law-abiding individual to possess functional firearms in his or her home for lawful purposes, most notably for self-defense and defense of family.”
As such, the order blocks ESLHA from enforcing their ban and requires the subsidized housing provider to change their lease to no longer prohibit

Source: Guns.com

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