From McCarville Report: Chicago Defies SCOTUS

According to the McCarville Report, the City of Chicago's new gun ban is in defiance of the recent rulings in McDonald and Heller.

It permits people to have guns inside their homes but forbids them from taking their firearms outside, even onto the porch, into the yard or the garage.

It also calls for prospective gun owners to take a class and receive firearm training. Chicago residents must leave the city to buy guns because the ordinance prohibits gun sales in the city.

I have not read the ordinance, so I may change my position later.  But if these paragraphs from the post are true, then it does not necessarily defy the Supreme Court.

In Heller, the Supreme Court ruled that ownership of firearms is essential to self defense through the Second Amendment.  But it also opined that certain prohibitions and requirements were presumptively Constitutional.  It reaffirmed that in McDonald.

This is more proof that the erroneous plurality decision of incorporation via Due Process has only opened up a new litigation market.  All it takes to render McDonald and Heller effectively meaningless is a narrow interpretation or two.  It's easy to fathom that a narrow interpretation could rest on what the definition of a "sensitive place" is, such as a high crime neighborhood.