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Obama Must Tackle the US Gun Lobby, or Abandon His Beloved Chicago
9 June 2009
Boston Globe, Column
President Obama really must say something about guns now, less he fecklessly watch the National Rifle Association take over his beloved Chicago. The NRA is appealing to the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court in Chicago last week upheld a handgun ban in Chicago and the nearby suburb of Oak Park.
The Supreme Court threw out the District of Columbia's handgun ban last year. The appeals court said that only the Supreme Court can overturn the ban since... (GunPolicy.org)