No "One Gun;" No Insurance

Someone talking a tiny modicum of sense into Shortshanks' people:

• Mayor Daley today backed off his plan to limit Chicagoans to one handgun — and dropped the idea of requiring liability insurance — in a watered-down replacement to Chicago’s “unenforceable” handgun ban.

  The mayor’s ordinance — approved by the City Council’s Police Committee and poised for approval by the full council at a special meeting on Friday — was considerably weaker than Daley and top mayoral aides had initially described.

  Instead of limiting possession to one handgun for every qualified person living in a home, it allows those persons to each register “one handgun-per-month.”

  It prohibits possession of those handguns outside the home. The home is specifically defined as the inside portion “traditionally used for living purposes” — not the garage, yard, porch, deck or walkway.

  No more than one firearm in the home could be “assembled and operable.” The rest must be secured by a trigger lock or locked box or “broken down in a non-functioning state.

There's no way to check or enforce the "assembled and operable" provisions of the ordinance, so why put it in? The "handguns outside the home" portion seems a feeble attempt to prohibit a de facto "Concealed Carry" movement on one's own property. The "one-per-month" has failed in a number of jurisdictions, but exists is one form or another elsewhere.

The Gun Lobby is going to have to figure which restrictions are worth fighting over and spending money on, especially when Daley is using untold millions from taxpayers to push an agenda that doesn't actually reflect the mood of the City, State or Nation at large.