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Court halts public housing gun ban, big win for Ill. rape victim
Luckily a federal court in Illinois recognized this too and overturned a move by the East St. Louis Housing Authority to kick someone out of their house because they had a gun to defend themselves after they had been raped.
Just one of the millions of stories of how guns save lives.
Luckily a federal court in Illinois recognized this too and overturned a move by the East St. Louis Housing Authority to kick someone out of their house because they had a gun to defend themselves after they had been raped.
A federal court on Thursday cleared the way for an Illinois rape victim to have a gun in her public housing apartment to protect herself from further domestic violence, the latest judicial victory for Second Amendment advocates.
Senior Judge J. Phil Gilbert for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois in Benton, Ill., issued a permanent injunction on the East St. Louis Housing Authority's gun ban, claiming it violated the Second and 14th Amendments letting citizens protect themselves.
He ordered the East St. Louis Housing Authority to erase the ban on guns for residents from its lease.
Just one of the millions of stories of how guns save lives.