Posted on 03/09/2013 12:58:45 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
CITY HALL — Chicago's gun offender registry needs to be expanded to include the names of people busted committing crimes with a gun, Ald. Ed Burke (14th) said Thursday. And Mayor Rahm Emanuel agrees.
The powerful alderman wants to force anyone convicted of a violent crime with a firearm, including kidnapping, assault, robbery and vehicular hijacking, to end up on the list, which now has 584 names on it of those convicted of less serious gun violations.
Burke said he was shocked to hear the current list had so few names.
"Clearly I felt that there are thousands of offenders that should have been added to the registry," Burke said.
In July 2010, the City Council passed an ordinance establishing a "gun offender registry," similar to a sex offender registry. But the law only requires those convicted of unlawful use of a weapon, which includes illegal possession of a gun among other charges, to register with police.
Burke's plan to expand the list was approved at the City Council's Committee on Public Safety hearing Thursday and is on the agenda in front of the full council Wednesday.
"We believe the ordinance can be implemented and will help achieve the Mayor's goal of reducing gun violence and illegal weapons in the city of Chicago," Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office said in a statement...
(Excerpt) Read more at dnainfo.com ...
Simply being on a list does no one any harm or good. But what somebody does with that information is another story. And the wannabe tyrants are well aware of that.
TC
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This is on another blog about Cook County gun stings.
BEWARE OF THE COOK COUNTY SHERIFF
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_8_23/519611_BEWARE_OF_THE_COOK_COUNRY_SHERIFF_The_Games_Have_Begun.html
Heads up IL freepers.
Obama to visit Argonne on March 15
BY LYNN SWEET
Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief
Last Modified: Mar 8, 2013 01:20PM
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will visit the Argonne National Laboratory in the southwest suburbs next Friday, a White House official told the Sun-Times, with the visit to focus on energy.
Argonne is one of the Department of Energy’s biggest national laboratories, managed by the University of Chicago.
Obama was last in Chicago on Feb. 15 on a post-State of the Union trip where he spoke at the Hyde Park Academy.
First Lady Michelle Obama was in Chicago Feb. 28 hitting McCormick Place for an event to mark the third anniversary of her “Let’s Move” program.
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