Gun Policy News
Chicago Mayor Vows to Defend Gun Ban, Urges Toronto to Pressure Ottawa
19 July 2008
Toronto Star (Ontario)
Handguns have no place in big cities, says Chicago Mayor Richard Daley.
In Toronto for a Great Lakes water quality conference, Daley vowed to vigorously defend Chicago's handgun ban, in effect since 1982, against legal challenges.
And he praised Toronto Mayor David Miller for lobbying Ottawa to ban handguns and to press the United States to reduce the smuggling of weapons into the city from south of the border. "I give Dave Miller a lot of credit," Daley said... (GunPolicy.org)