Gun Shop Delay

There are a myriad of regulations governing businesses in Chicago, but if you want to sell a perfectly legal product, it shouldn't take six months to figure out where the store should be:

• A federal judge Tuesday granted the city the six months Mayor Rahm Emanuel said it needs to figure out where to allow gun shops in Chicago.
  
  U.S. District Court Judge Edmond Chang said his decision balances the needs of the city to craft regulations with the public’s Second Amendment rights.
  
  Pete Patterson, an attorney for gun rights advocates, told Chang the six-month time frame is too long. Patterson said the city acted far more quickly to a court ruling that overturned the statewide ban on carrying concealed weapons in Illinois.

And after 6 months, the city will drag it's feet on issuing store licenses, claiming paperwork errors, processing time, etc. We're actually hoping that no one will open a store in the city itself and deny Rahm the tax revenue he so desperately needs and instead companies open stores on the outskirts of town or even outside of Cook County to get the business of city residents. If we're spending hundreds or even a grand on a new gun, we aren't looking to give Rahm and Toni a single extra dime.