Otis McDonald will get his gun.
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"This is great. I am so happy," McDonald said from Washington, D.C. "It's a milestone."
McDonald, the son of Louisiana sharecroppers, said he got emotional as the ruling came down.
"I was feeling the poor blacks who years ago had their guns taken away from them and were killed as someone wished. That was a long time ago, but I feel their spirit. That's what I was feeling in the courtroom," he said.
The 76-year old said the Supreme Court ruling will make Chicago blocks like his that are overrun with thugs safer places to live.
"If you have the right to have a handgun in your house, even if you don't have a gun, that will give criminals a second thought, a third thought about breaking into your house," McDonald said.
McDonald's co-plaintiff in the landmark case, Colleen Lawson, had this message for criminals: The "Chicago crime buffet is over" -- warning gun-toting thugs that city residents aren't their prey.
McDonald says he's not a hero of the pro-gun lobby.
"I'm just plain, little Otis. I'm doing the best I can to make right a wrong. And I've done that," he said.