A federal judge has ruled that Chicago’s ban on the sale of handguns is unconstitutional. Chicago currently prohibits the sale of handguns within city limits. A city council committee approved a rewrite of the city’s gun laws, which included bringing the city’s policy on the carry of concealed weapons in line with the state of Illinois’ recently passed concealed carry law. The decision comes days after Chicago’s Police Department announced that the city’s homicide rate in 2013 had reached its lowest level since 1965.
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