Posted on 04/27/2007 7:25:59 AM PDT by bad company
The Chicago Police Department and the Illinois State Police have teamed up to make good on Mayor Daley's pledge that, if it were up to him, nobody would have a gun. Daley and his elite "CAGE" unit are apparently taking advantage of gun privacy loopholes to pinpoint certain individuals for inclusion in the confiscation program.
The ISRA is following up on leads in one case that has disturbing implications. An elderly first-generation Chicago resident was recently paid a visit by an Illinois State Police trooper. After asking to come inside the man's home, the trooper asked if the man owned a gun - to which he replied yes. The trooper then directed the individual to surrender the firearm. The man complied with the officer's demand and the trooper left with the gun. And the story gets better...
The gun in question was purchased legally by the man in the 1970s shortly after he became a U.S. citizen. When Chicago's infamous gun registration scheme went into effect in the early 1980s, the man registered the firearm as per the requirement. However, over the years, the fellow apparently forgot to re-register the firearm, and forgot to renew his Illinois FOID Card.
So...what does this all mean?
In the last edition of The Illinois Shooter, we reported on the activities of a shady taskforce known as the Chicago Anti Gun Enforcement (CAGE) unit. This elite squad, operated jointly by the Illinois State Police, the Chicago Police Department, and the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, supposedly exists to identify illegal gunrunners. However, information gained by the ISRA makes it clear that the CAGE unit is targeting law-abiding citizens, not criminal gunrunners.
Thanks to a ruling by a liberal federal judge, the CAGE unit now has the name of every single person in the United States who, since 1992, lawfully purchased more than one handgun in the period of a week. The CAGE unit also has all the makes, models and serial numbers of those guns. In essence, the Chicago Police Department is now registering guns and gun owners nationwide.
The ISRA has also learned that the CAGE unit has compiled a list of families where more than one person in that family holds a FOID card. Acting on that information, the CAGE unit is now contacting gun shops where those families have shopped, and is illegally registering all guns purchased by those families.
Now, it appears that the CAGE unit is scrubbing Chicago's gun registration list against the list of FOID card holders. Indications are that folks who have let their registrations and FOIDs lapse will have their guns confiscated. We have to wonder how long it will be until state troopers show up at the doors to confiscate the guns of non-Chicago residents who have let their FOIDs expire.
More later as this story develops.
Government: Through down your firearms!
Citizens: Come and get them!!!
anyone starting a pool on how long before an officer gets shot for doing his duty?
MEGA BARF BARF BS WITH SHEEPLE BEING SERVED UP TO THE ALTER FOR THE CANNIBALS IN GOVERNMENT TO CONSUME.
This is a constitutional showdown that Daley will lose. Unfortunately it will take several years to get through the courts. At the end, I hope that the city will be forced to make restitution with appropriate financial penalties added on.
-from an ex-Chicagoan now happily living in the ‘burbs
I’m shocked.
Just join al-Qaeda and the Mayor will let you keep your gun. He’s a Democrat after all. The ACLU will take up your case if you are al-Qaeda. The media will give you all the support they can if you are al-Qaeda.
What a surprise: registration is used for confiscation.
Do you know why the British went to Concord in the first place? They went to disarm the populace.
I agree, come and get them. I recall the retort to this was, how can you stand up to a government with military weapons with your puny handguns. I retorted, why would you want a government that would use them on you.
“anyone starting a pool on how long before an officer gets shot for doing his duty?”
If he gets shot violating the Constitution then I have no sympathy for him.
Question is, how do I arm up without my father knowing?
Even though he’ll probably read this, I don’t care. I have the right to protect myself and my family. One night it may have to be by force.
Mayor Daley, meet Mayor Giuliana.
You two have a lot in common.
Let’s hope it never comes to that, but I have to say that any LEO who would be part of this task force, is most definitely NOT doing his duty.
Maybe they should marry.
While they may say "oh, I'd let YOU have one", they'd really rather nobody had guns but them.
After all, who knows best about how society should be structured...and who should hold power in a society...than the police?
“Too much other high crimes in the state of Ill. for the government to worry and push their gun control crap. “
They’re not about preventing crime, but controlling people.
Interesting that they’d rather crack down on loaded weapons instead of loaded illegal aliens.
Makes sense, when I use liberal logic, that they’d focus on the group that isn’t on the streets killing Americans.
It will probably sooner than anyone thinks. And it will not matter which political party is in control or in office. Our government does not want the public armed. To build an Empire you need to break down the common people so they can only rely on the controlling force. Our government is in the Empire building business and does not care about the common people anymore.
The revenge for NO confiscations will be served in later lawsuits. Let us hope that some productive revenge can be served in Chicago.
As we transition from a society with rural roots to one where most youth have no connection with hunting or the sporting use of firearms, the issue of concealed carry becomes highly beneficial to the Second Amendment.
I know that in Missouri, once the number of concealed carry permitees exceeded 10,000, it became a large enough block of voters that it has not escaped the attention of politicians. So, CCW itself can become a political factor. Of course, Illinois has this hurdle to overcome, and it seems that there is a police-state mentality in some of its law enforcement community. That cancer will take years to flush out, assuming someone who recogizes it is able to be elected to an office where they can do something about it.
Barring that, people who love liberty are just going to have to find it elsewhere.
3,000 people died on 9/11 and not one handgun or rifle was used. Sometimes peoples' mentalities never rise above the second floor.
How about get the illegals loaded (booze), then go after them.
I 100% Agree.
And that my folks is the prime basis for ‘The New World Order’. If a select few have control over the people as a whole, by whatever means, then the income of the select few is steady and even more skimming can occur. A feudal mentality that still exists these days......Greed ingrained in the hearts of so many.
Got to ask:
Is it possible that all this CCW momentum is actually just a ‘covert’ way for government to compile a very accurate list of gun owners?
Is sick, but hey, governments have been known to turn on people... wait, we are witnessing that now, aren’t we?
Laying out the red carpet for the Clinton Crime Syndicate.
They want to end the war, and bring the troops home from Iraq to round up so-called VRWC groups after the “return of the queen” who would object to her plans and policies.
“Thanks to a ruling by a liberal federal judge, the CAGE unit now has the name of every single person in the United States who, since 1992, lawfully purchased more than one handgun in the period of a week. The CAGE unit also has all the makes, models and serial numbers of those guns.”
Who on earth is maintaining such lists; this is blatantly unconstitutional.
I doubt you actually know any LEOs.
Bingo!
But first you must have 3 different sized rods and proper training to correctly beat your wife so no marks are evident while she’s in public wearing her hijab.
In Pennsylvania, it’s HB 760. We called our state senator and our state representative today to determine their position (opposed) and register our support of that position.
Hatched by the loonies in Philadelphia, this would require annual photograph and fingerprinting along with a $10 permit for each firearm. Oh, and if the powers that be didn’t grant you your annual permit, you would be required to surrender your weapons.
Fat chance. The PA constitution actually includes the line “shall not be questioned” when addressing the rights of firearm ownership. Clearly, somebody hasn’t done their homework.
Not that long ... but then again most people that love freedom left Chicago a long time ago.
That's why I have never applied. Took the class and I carry anyway.
Thursday, Apr. 26 2007
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A downstate resident who complained to his local lawmaker about his Ameren electric bill last week was so upset over the issue that police ended up at his door, confiscated guns from him and are continuing to investigate, several sources confirmed Wednesday.
However, state Sen. Gary Forby, D-Benton, whose office fielded the angry call, said initial media reports that there was a death threat against himself and Senate President Emil Jones aren't accurate.
"There was never, ever a death threat. We just had a concerned person … who was upset about his Ameren bill,'' Forby said Wednesday.
He said the man, a Benton resident, did talk about Jones, and said things that raised concerns he might injure himself. "We thought there could be an issue with his safety … so we asked the state police to look into it,'' Forby said.
The incident, which began Friday and continued over the weekend, is the latest fallout from the electricity rate controversy that has raged in the Legislature this year.
That debate continues today, when a House committee is expected to take up a bill that would roll back and freeze rates for Ameren customers. Many believe that measure is ultimately doomed because of opposition by Jones, the Senate leader.
Forby and Jones, a Chicago Democrat, have been at the center of the rate controversy in recent weeks. Forby sponsored the Ameren rate-freeze bill that's now in the House. Jones, a rate-freeze opponent, sparked outrage Friday by using an obscure parliamentary maneuver to prevent ComEd from being included in that bill, an omission that could scuttle the whole rate-freeze proposal.
As that issue was playing out in Springfield on Friday, Forby said, a man called his district office in Benton and talked to a staff member there about the electric rate issue. Based on the tenor of that conversation, Forby said, his office alerted police. Police went to the man's house and confiscated several guns, according to local media and other sources.
An Illinois State Police spokesman confirmed Wednesday that there is an investigation but declined to provide further information. No charges had been filed in the case as of Wednesday afternoon.
A spokeswoman for Jones declined to comment.
If I were a true American and patriotic and a LEO, I’d refuse to follow that order.
Hillary/Rudy can just send the patriotic troops overseas, and have the unionized ATF/SWAT goons do the dirty work, helped by every local police and Sheriff’s department with all their federally-funded ninja gear. And 99% will do it to keep all the union benefits, plus the adrenaline bonus
Hmmm...Didn’t realize Rudy was Mayor of Chicago.
This kind of Gestapo tactics won’t stand up to a legal test. Daley and his thugs have forgotten that this is America, not Nazi Germany or Communist Russia. No doubt this will be overturned, but only after a lengthy legal process.
It’s always easier for law enforcement to go after law-abiding citizens than criminals.
Daley is a dirty bastard. Let them come try to take mine.
And as an added bonus, they can show how active they are getting guns off the street to the PC crowd.
Never give a government any power over you that you wouldn’t grant your worst enemy.
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