As a lifetime Chicago resident, let me add my $.02
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Besides, Handguns are illegal in Chicago, and have been for more than a decade.......
Brian Williams Extropian Cypherpatriot
I was in Chi. a couple of years ago and happened to run into a guy just getting home that had a handgun strapped to his belt in plain view. Is there a license for this or must you be a private eye/police/security for this? I doubt it was illegal, unless he was just asking for trouble. It was in a reasonably bad neighborhood on the East side. (Ahem, made a wrong turn...) I know that in OH there are some interesting laws: I had a lawyer friend who wore a gun even when he went out drinking in bars because of the types of clients he represented. Supposedly the local police had cleared it or something based on some legal exception. (In Ohio, there are signs posted in bars that having a handgun in a licensed liquor establishment has such and such mandatory sentence.) sdw -- Stephen D. Williams Local Internet Gateway Co.; SDW Systems 513 496-5223APager LIG dev./sales Internet: sdw@lig.net OO R&D Source Dist. By Horse: 2464 Rosina Dr., Miamisburg, OH 45342-6430 Comm. Consulting ICBM: 39 34N 85 15W I love it when a plan comes together Newbie Notice: (Surfer's know the score...) I speak for LIGCo., CCI, myself, and no one else, regardless of where it is convenient to post from or thru.