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High court fight looms over right to carry a gun

December 16, 2012

The next big issue in the national debate over guns — whether people have a right to be armed in public — is moving closer to Supreme Court review. A provocative ruling by a panel of federal appeals court judges in Chicago struck down the only statewide ban on carrying concealed weapons, in Illinois. The ruling is somewhat at odds with those of other federal courts that have largely...

Source: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20121216/news/712169889/
 
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