Chicago Loses Another One

If citizens have constitutionally protected rights to own guns, authorities can't then thwart their attempts to learn how to properly use them, the 19-page opinion, issued late Wednesday, contends.

"Range training is not categorically outside the Second Amendment," Sykes wrote. "To the contrary, it lies close to the core of the individual right of armed defense."

A three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit deemed three restrictions at the heart of Chicago's ordinance unconstitutional: One that restricts public gun ranges to manufacturing areas, one that bans minors from such ranges and a third that set limits on how close ranges can be to schools, parks and places of worship.