From this article http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1026348,daleygun062608.article
"At a time when Chicago's homicide rate is rising by nearly 13 percent ..."

"Chicago's ban on new handguns-and a companion requirement that all existing guns be re-registered every year was pushed through the City Council in 1982 in the wake of the assassination attempts on former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II and the death of two police officers.

The number of registered guns has steadily plummeted ever since."

Daley apparently speaks with forked tongue.