Judge rebukes Chicago in long-running gun store ban case

By Chris Eger

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation (Photos: Reuters/Guns.com)
A federal court this week sided with the owner of a long-ago planned gun store whose business permit was rejected by Chicago officials over a technicality.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Robert M. Dow rejected the city’s bid to dismiss the case brought about by the owner of Second Amendment Arms in 2010, finding that his permit was likely denied because of the now-repealed city-wide ban on gun stores that was in place at the time.
City officials had maintained they had rejected the gun store’s permit application because the leased property was zoned residential and not commercial. However, Dow held that the store’s owner was under the belief that the space was commercial at the time of the application and was told he was denied approval for the permit by city officials over an ordinance that had the effect of prohibiting the legal sale of firearms inside its limits.
“The fact that the particular address that Plaintiff listed on their gun store application was zoned for residential use even though it was advertised as a commercial space is simply a fortuity,” said Dow in his 11-page ruling, ordering

Source: Guns.com