Illinois State Representative Ken Dunkin
http://www.repkendunkin.com/
Posted on 02/18/2009 11:05:16 AM PST by KeyLargo
Midwest News
Illinois Bill Would Require Gun Owners to Buy $1M in Liability Insurance
February 18, 2009
An Illinois state lawmaker is proposing that gun owners be required to carry personal liability insurance of at least $1 million.
Rep. Kenneth Dunkin's bill seeks to amend the state's Firearm Owners Identification Card Act to provides that any person who owns a firearm in the state maintain a $1 million or higher policy of liability insurance "specifically covering any damages resulting from negligent or willful acts involving the use of such firearm while it is owned by such person."
A gun owner would be responsible after a firearm is lost or stolen until the loss or theft is reported to the police department or sheriff of the jurisdiction in which the owner resides.
Police would be empowered to pull the gun license of anyone who does not submit evidence of having the required insurance.
The measure is now in the House Rules Committee.
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...SHALL not be infringed.
An insurance requirement represents an infringement.
Frontpaged with a vengence
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
If it is priced like that for RC airplane hobbyists, it will something like $10 a year...not a big deal but it is a BS gov mandate.
And you’ll need insurance for all your other rights, too.
“So sorry, you can’t take the Fifth Amendment because you missed your last insurance payment; now you must incriminate yourself.”
You know what this would do ... people would make agreements for one to shoot the other in the foot so the “victim” could collect from the insurance.
They’d then secretly split the proceeds.
Idiots.
If it’s illegal to require ID, because it cost $5, to vote, than it’s similarly illegal to reqire any burden to use your 2nd ammendment rights.
Can we assume this idiot is a Dim?
An Illinois state lawmaker is proposing that gun owners be required to carry personal liability insurance of at least $1 million.
Very funny!....I’m sure gang bangers will line up!
Illinois State Representative Ken Dunkin
http://www.repkendunkin.com/
Boy, these guys can’t stop trying to destroy the 2nd Amendment in order to destroy the 1st.
If I shoot someone who is crawling into my bedroom window in the middle of the night, is that a “willful act”?
“...SHALL not be infringed.”
One would think the way the lefties try to curb 2A rights at every turn that the 2A actaully read “shall be infringed”.
To normal rational thinking human beings.
Quick:
Add an amendment to include all knife owners.
The U.K. has seen a spiral of knife violence we wouldn’t want to see repeated here.
“An insurance requirement represents an infringement.”
Someone please explain how this would be any different than a poll tax?
Once they get every gang banger to comply, then I’ll consider this.
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