After Cook County prosecutors dropped a state weapons charge against him last week, Wilmette resident Hale DeMar launched a legal battle against the village ordinance which outlaws the handgun he believes may have saved his life from a home invader.
DeMar still faces fines in the less serious village ordinance charge, but his attorneys filed a counterclaim alleging the ordinance is unconstitutional because it violates privacy rights. His attorney in that case, Robert Orman, said the challenge is more narrowly drawn and takes a different approach that others which failed to overturn local gun bans.
"It's never been attacked on privacy. It would not bar Wilmette or any other town from having such an ordinance, but it would prevent them from applying it to future cases like this," Orman said.
It's a shame that judges don't have the guts to rule as the Second Amendment requires them to do.
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