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    | IL: East St. Louis Public Housing Residents Are Terrified They’ll Be Murder Victims Next Submitted by: 
			
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    | The woman has a firearm owners’ identification card and is licensed to carry a weapon in Illinois. But her lease says residents and their guests are prohibited from having or displaying guns in the apartment or on housing property.
 
 Violating that condition could result in the lease being terminated.
 
 Earlier this month, a federal judge ordered the housing authority to amend their rules to allow tenants to own guns.
 
 In his decision, U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert wrote: “Among whatever else, the Second Amendment protects the right of a law-abiding individual to possess functional firearms in his or her home for lawful purposes, most notably for self-defense and defense of family.”
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    | FOID card? A Rights License? No law abiding citizen should ever be forced to purchase a license, charged a fee for, or taxed in order to exercise any "Right" freely granted by the Constitution.
 
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