Groups sue Chicago suburbs for more gun control

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A group of civil rights activists on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against three Chicago suburbs to force them to take stricter gun-control measures to stem the flow of weapons into the city's crime-ridden neighborhoods.

The complaint filed in Cook County Circuit Court against the towns of Riverdale, Lyons and Lincolnwood said gunshops there, along with stores in Gary, Indiana, supply a fifth of guns seized by police at crime scenes in the city.

With between 400-500 murders a year, almost all with guns, Chicago lags other big U.S. cities in bringing down homicides. Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, on the job for four years, says the biggest factor in the city's high crime rate is illegal weapons, many purchased in the suburbs.

The lawsuit brought by prominent activist Reverend Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Catholic Church on Chicago's South Side, Reverend Robin Hood, a pastor on the West Side, and other plaintiffs alleged that the suburbs are too lax in regulating gun stores.

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[Person 2713]

1. I have heRd that before yes the same towns mentioned esp. Riverdale and Lyons

Lax on sale laws

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2. Stricter gun control means nothing until the federal government lays down uniform gun laws

across the nation. Guns cross state lines, which negates the "state rights".

Guns flow from states with lax gun control to those that are trying to so something about the carnage.

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3. This makes me so sad

I was born in cook county and the best thing my Mom ever did was move us west to Oregon.

I feel so badly for the young kids growing up there now.