May 20, 2008
Oh, Mell No
More aldermanic shenanigans today: Dick Mell (33rd) is re-writing a law he accidentally broke. Apparently, Mell forgot to register his arsenal of guns last year, and when he realized he was going to lose his appeal, he decided to change the law.
Mell has quietly introduced an ordinance that would reopen gun registration in Chicago and create a one-month amnesty for himself and other gun owners in the same predicament. During the monthlong window, gun owners who attempted to re-register their guns between May 1, 2007, and April 1, 2008, only to be rejected on grounds the registrations had lapsed would be allowed to re-register without penalty.
Mell says the law isn't just for him; it's for other people who made the same mistake, too. [S-T]
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This will be moot within five weeks as the Supreme Court will through out the DC gun law which will also cause Chicago's almost identical law to also be declared unconstitutional!
Methinks Chicagoist is a shade anti-gun.
Anti-gun isn't the issue here, it's aldermanic shenanigns. Mell couldn't manage to follow the law he was part of passing, so now he's spending time and tax payer money writing a new law to give himself (and any others who happened to forget to follow the law at the same time he did) an out. It's stupid.
Yeah I think chicagos gun law is going down but this just stinks that Mell adjusts the law to fit his needs.
"Yeah I think chicagos gun law is going down but this just stinks that Mell adjusts the law to fit his needs."
Don't you know? He's better than you are. Just ask him. I'd like to see him and Officer Callahan share a cell.