Chicago taxpayers must pay nearly $1 million in attorney fees in gun rights case city lost

July 4 is a day when we celebrate our freedoms, including the right to bear arms, which is protected by the Second Amendment of our Constitution.

Chicago politicians don't seem to understand what our Constitution is all about--and it will cost taxpayers dearly.

From AP:

Chicago lost its legal battle to keep gun stores out of the city, and now it must pick up the tab for nearly $1 million in legal fees that the winners spent on the case.

U.S. District Judge Edward E. Chang said in a one-page ruling Thursday that he found fees associated with the lawsuit filed in 2010 by the Illinois Association of Firearms Retailers "reasonable." Chang, who in January declared Chicago's decades-old ban on gun stores unconstitutional, ordered the city to pay attorneys' fees and costs totaling $940,000.

The order is the latest chapter in the city's long-running battle to keep guns out of its residents' hands, after a U.S. Supreme Court decision rendered the city's decades-old ban on handguns unenforceable and a federal judge's decision declared the state's last-in-the nation ban on concealed weapons unconstitutional.

Chicago taxpayers face an enormous burden in paying for public worker pension debt--and its leaders just pissed away nearly $1 million.

Thank God I live in the suburbs.

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