From Handgun Club of America:
The City of Morton Grove, Illinois has announced plans to revoke their local handgun ban, according to NPR.
Village Manager Joe Wade says Morton Grove isn’t going to wait for a court battle. It’s going to act.
“The village of Morton Grove has every intention to comply with [the Supreme Court ruling],” Wade says. “We’re going to propose an ordinance that would eliminate the possession-of-handgun ban within the village.”
Morton Grove made headlines in 1981 as the first community in the nation to ban the sale and possession of handguns.
And of particular note to us in Georgia:
In reaction to the radical Morton Grove anti-gun law, in March 1982, the town of Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law requiring each head of household to own and maintain a gun. Since then, crime in Kennesaw has dropped significantly and not a single resident has been involved in a fatal shooting – as a victim, attacker or defender. That’s twenty-six homicide-free years. Kennesaw’s population has jumped five-fold in that time but their crime rate has been cut in half.
In contrast, Morton Grove’s crime rate increased 15.7% after the gun ban was passed and today remains 11% higher than Kennesaw Georgia.
That’s because an Armed Society is a Polite Society. Who wants to start a fight with someone that has a pistol on their hip?
Morton Grove, Illinois, handgun, Kennesaw, Georgia
