Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago City Council are finalizing a new gun control law that will allow someone with a misdemeanor conviction to obtain a gun after a five-year ban. Under the ordinance, which a city council committee passed yesterday and the full council is likely to approve next Wednesday, a Chicago resident with a felony would still be barred from gun ownership.

The change is due to a federal judge ruling last month that the city could not deny someone a gun due to a misdemeanor conviction. The new ordinance would amount to the city's second rewrite of its gun law since the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the city's handgun ban in 2010.