Rahm just cost the city another million bucks.
As a follow up to the defeat in the courts of the city’s ban on gun stores earlier this year, Chicago has now been billed with nearly $1 million in legal fees from gun rights attorneys.
The bill came from the case of Illinois Association of Firearms Retailers v Chicago, which was decided in January by Federal Judge Edmond E. Chang, who deemed that the long-standing ban on gun sales in Chicago was in violation of the Second Amendment.
Thursday Chang endorsed $940,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs incurred by the gun rights group as being “reasonable.”
“Bans on gun shops and ranges will prove to be expensive propositions for municipalities,” said Illinois State Rifle Association executive director Richard Pearson in a release Saturday. “Gun control groups ride into town and bully public officials into passing unconstitutional ordinances then quickly leave town before the legal trouble begins. When the smoke clears, the municipality is left footing the bill and the gun controllers are nowhere to be seen.”