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Chicago poised for another fight over guns

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Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, left, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, rear, appear during a June news conference in Chicago. Emanuel has made it clear he was ready to face off with the gun lobby.

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Facing a climbing homicide rate, Chicago is poised for another fight over handguns — just two years after the last one. When the U.S. Supreme Court nullified the city's 28-year-old handgun ban in 2010, Chicago responded by passing one of the nation's toughest handgun ordinances. And city officials sounded ready Thursday for another battle after a federal appeals court tossed out Illinois' ban on carrying concealed weapons this week.