It is crazy to set up a huge expensive bureaucratic system, require everyone to jump though hoops and prove that they are *not* criminals in order to try, ineffectively, to prevent the few individuals who are not responsible, from having legal access to guns. This is a failed paradigm, and it should be abandoned. To accept the idea that the all gun sales should be monitored by the government, and only allowed to those it deems satisfactory is fundamentally wrong.
The entire idea of the enterprise has always been the death of a thousand cuts, where the restrictions on who can buy, and where, and how and what are continually increased until the number of gun owners is reduced to political insignificance.
I guess Rahm hasn’t paid sufficient big buck penalties on behalf of the city of Chicago.
This is an outrage.
And I’m sure all the Chicago gangbangers will be the first ones to register, and pay the fee for, all of their weapons./s
:: the law could provide for stricter punishments for those caught with illegal firearms, in turn deterring criminal possession of guns. ::
Uuuh-huh, sure. A gang-banger, when considering his drive-by mayhem will drop the plan because he might get the ^additional^ violation of being in possession of an unregistered firearm on top of the 15 other felony counts.
Talk about your “scared straight”..../sarc
:: the government knows all, controls all, and should be doing so. ::
Exactly how the sheeple have ben voting since the Great Depression.
If the robbed have no guns, and the robber does ... the robbed gives up the money ... no shots fired, no "gun violence"
Rapes, robberies and murders still occur, and even escalate ... just with less "gun violence"
... and the idiots buy into it.
Street gangs will have to sell more drugs so they can afford to pay the fee for their guns.
So I'll register all my handguns when they both personally come to me to get the serial numbers. And I suggest they bring a lunch, 'cause it'll be a loooooooong day.
I'm a BATF Licensed Collector and I follow all their laws and regs with my guns and that's enough. Period, end. So ESAD 'Rahm-Father'
Schoenberg is not running for re-election this year. He probably supports this anyway, but his not running probably gives him added eagerness to speak out.
With Chicago’s past of either gangster or criminal violence, it’s not surprising that its leaders are squeamish about allowing even normal access to firearms.
Chicago and Illinois will be the last City and State to allow concealed carry, long after everyone else has already done it.
In some ways, this is worse than the Canadian system. In Canada, at least one who is licensed can register a pistol (if it has a legal barrel-length) free (no fee), and one can even do it over the internet — and from outside the country.
$65 per gun for registration, as proposed for IL, is preposterous.
On the other hand, gun usage should be licensed to ensure competence in safe handling, and to screen out felons. Registering guns is questionable; licensing people makes sense.
[I wish that we were stricter is licensing drivers. About half our drivers are below acceptable competency. Anyone who requires a special parking place because they are too feeble to walk a short distance on a level, paved surface, is probably too weak and uncoordinated to be driving a vehicle at all.]
As it is now, it is virtually impossible in some places to get a pistol-carry permit: IL, NJ, most of CA, MD, MA, and NYC. Some other states also make it impossible for non-residents to get permits, or they charge intentionally unreasonable fees.
Licensing does not bother me. What bothers me is being told that it is useless even to apply, because no one will be permitted in NJ. That is not an honest system.
I was last in Chicago in 2005 to attend the settlement of my wife’s father’s estate. When I left I promised myself I would never return. And I haven’t. And I never will.
What a cesspool that place is.