January 18 in Firearms History

2017

• Decided: January 18, 201
  - judge held that the zoning restrictions severely limit where shooting ranges can be located
  - judge rejected the challenges
  -The City of Chicago failed to carry its burden in Ezell I (2011)
• 2010 McDonald v. City of Chicago case
  - invalidated Chicago's law prohibiting handgun possession
• 2011 Rhonda Ezell v. City of Chicago (Ezell I)
  - the City prohibited firing ranges everywhere in the city
  - held that the range ban was incompatible with the Second Amendment

Robert J. Cottrol
Jan 18, 1949

2A Activist

• American legal scholar and legal historian
• 1993 Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment (editor)

Jan 18–21, 2022