Housing authority sued over gun ban in subsidized homes

By Chris Eger

Public housing administered by the East St. Louis Housing Authority have a “no guns” clause in their lease. (Photo: ESLHA)
Gun rights groups allied with a domestic violence survivor are suing an Illinois housing authority over their “no guns allowed” policies.
The East St. Louis Housing Authority is the subject of a federal lawsuit filed last week by an unnamed woman “hiding from a violent domestic abuser” backed by Second Amendment organizations.
The woman said she fears her abusive ex-husband who was recently released from prison on a murder conviction. She has a valid Illinois firearms card but is barred by her lease at ESLHA’s Auburn Terrace complex from having a gun in her home even though it was used to save her life previously.
“This situation is made even more outrageous considering what has happened to Ms. Doe while living at Auburn Terrace,” said Alan Gottlieb, head of the Second Amendment Foundation, one of the groups backing the woman. “We’ve explained how she was beaten and raped in January 2017, and her children stopped the attack only by threatening to use a gun. On two other occasions, Ms. Doe had to call police due to shootings in nearby residences. When the housing authority

Source: Guns.com