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.
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I just posted the same thing today.
Another reason why I am planning to move to Indiana.
This is no surprise. What was gun registration for anyway? After a few more cities like NY and CA gets in the act, I can guarantee the beginning of a civil war. The South will rise again!!!!!!! I'm moving.
Have to agree with you there. Some of the delusional comments i see on here from time to time, make me ill.
What the !@&#^!%@)_#^%$!! is "FOID"??
And on the rare occasions when it does happen, the case is fixed in a crooked court.
Gun case against Illinois trooper is dropped
By Robert Patrick
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
04/25/2007
http://tinyurl.com/ysg82l
Federal prosecutors dropped the criminal case against the last of three Illinois State Police officers accused of federal machine-gun law violations � and signaled Tuesday that charges against a fourth man may soon be addressed.
Assistant U.S. Attorney James Crowe dismissed a charge of illegal possession of a machine gun against Special Agent John Yard of Collinsville. Crowe said Yard accepted responsibility and entered a "pretrial diversion" in exchange for the dismissal. Under its terms, Yard must complete 30 hours of community service with the U.S. attorney's office.
Charges against Sgt. James Vest of O'Fallon and Senior Master Trooper Greg Mugge of Jerseyville were dismissed previously.
Yard and Vest were relieved of duty with pay pending an administrative review, a department spokesman said last week. Mugge has retired.
U.S. District Judge Michael J. Reagan offered in Tuesday's hearing to write Yard a letter of support, and asked if he had his job back. "I believe so," the trooper responded.
Yard and Crowe declined to comment after the hearing.
Yard's lawyer, Bill Lucco, said later, "I think it's a good ending to a strange and bizarre journey." He said the pretrial diversion was unlikely to hurt Yard's chance of returning to duty. "It's not even like supervision on a speeding ticket," Lucco explained.
The three troopers and a doctor from Spaulding, Ill., were indicted last year after officers were seen with automatic AR-15 and M-4 rifles at the Greenville federal prison firing range.
The prosecution of the officers collapsed after Vest raised an exception for police in the machine-gun law, and U.S. District Judge David R. Herndon ruled last year that it was "unconstitutionally vague."
The case against Dr. Harold Griffiths is set for trial in August. Asked by Reagan if there had been discussions with that defendant, Crowe said, "There have been communications, but they haven't been by me."
rpatrick@post-dispatch.com | 314-621-5154
As I HAVE SAID, gun “control” laws have as their purpose to seize guns from law-abiding citizens, not from criminals.
Well, many LEO’s are pretty good folk and good folk. They are human like the rest of us.
It’s naive to assume that any other culture is immune.
It was just a matter of time. Very sad.
LOL, I know, it’s the first post I read today.
We are on the same wavelength.
Illinois is rapidly becoming New Jersey’s, New York’s, Massachusett’s and Kalipornia’s rival in legislative idiocy.
Why do libs hate guns so much?
Read the begining of the Declaration of Independence.
This is safer, and if your own a firearm and let your FOID expire, you are a criminal.
Renew them, and do it early.
Of course.
Check out the application of the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization, 1970) laws and be amazed...
Not sure if they have ever gotten a single mob type yet...
I hate Illinois Nazis.
‘The world is so vague’ in the courts when it comes to elite treatment of the elite. Personally, I think fully auto weapons are OK to be owned by competent (sane) individuals who without a doubt have the weapons secured (locked up)when not practicing or being used for self-defense. Never know when the community you live in is going to be overrun by meth addicted illegals and their gangs.
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