I'm wondering about their opinion of this 9mm FX-9 carbine? Sweet shooter.
Posted on 04/07/2018 12:14:22 PM PDT by pboyington
Dear Village Board of Trustees:
You undoubtedly feel good about your recent assault weapons ban; a classic knee jerk, left wing gun control measure; full, like all liberal actions, of sound and fury, while signifying nothing but tyranny.
According to the ordinance, which you unanimously approved Monday night, it is unlawful for a person “to carry, keep, bear, transport or possess an assault weapon in the Village,” except if the weapon is “broken down in a non-functioning state,” is “not immediately accessible to any person,” or is “unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm carrying box, shipping box, or other container by a person who has been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner’s Identification Card.”
Your ordinance, forcing the 18,000 residents of your Chicago suburb to forfeit or secure assault weapons and magazines that fall under the ban by June 13th, forces those in violation to pay $200 to $1,000 a day as a penalty.
No wonder that your ban is already the subject of potential lawsuits, which will be filed by your enemies, those proponents of freedom, the Illinois State Rifle Association, the Second Amendment Foundation and the National Rifle Association.
Once upon a time, Deerfield, Illinois, was an upper middle class conservative enclave in Republican Lake County. But, times have changed. Blue Northern Illinois suburbia is now filled with liberal soccer moms and aggrieved Millennials who will undoubtedly support your unconstitutional and draconian gun control measure.
A good friend of our family lived in Deerfield from the early 1960’s until his death in 1999. The man, a talented house painter, had grown up in Nazi Germany. He recounted to me in detail many times how the Nazis came door to door to confiscate guns in the 1930’s. He, like all survivors of totalitarian dictatorships was perhaps the most pro-gun, pro NRA, pro freedom American I ever knew.
No doubt, he is looking down on Deerfield and crying. For he knows what will come next. Your actions are right out of a playbook that despots have used for centuries. It is called disarm the population then control them.
Under the ridiculous liberal platitudes of safety for the ‘community’ (a word the Nazis often used), saving the children, stopping more violence, and peace on earth, your ordinance is a harbinger of future progressive actions to come, as you seek to turn this nation into a socialist and unarmed left-wing hell hole.
Our Founding Fathers were well aware of people like you. They risked their lives to declare independence to get away from people like you. They fought people like you. They shed blood to stop people like you from telling us how to run our lives.
In 1776, people like you were called Redcoats. In 1939, people like you were called Nazis. In 1970, people like you were called Soviet communists. In 2018, people like you are called the Deerfield, Illinois, Village Board of Trustees.
George Washington said, “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence—it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
Your actions are not only irresponsible, and unconstitutional, but demonstrate once again that government; whether it is federal, state or municipal is always one step away from crossing the Rubicon and taking away the God given rights of American citizens.
Gun control advocates always say just let us pass this one measure and we’ll all live in a utopia.
But, there is no end to gun control and that is your plan. Today it is assault weapons and ten round magazines. Tomorrow it will be revolvers and shotguns. Next month it will be BB guns.
Next year it will be knives.
There is no end to gun control and no end to the left’s desire to nanny us into total tyranny.
A word of warning to the Deerfield Village Board of Trustees and the other local, state and federal government authorities infested with progressive tyrants – millions of gun owners in America will fight, if necessary to preserve the Second Amendment.
We are not Great Britain. We are not Australia. We are not France.
We are Americans and we shed blood to ensure that we have the right to bear arms. If necessary, we will do it again.
Try and take that right away from us and watch Lexington and Concord 2.0’s take place across the country, from sea to shining sea.
Montana ain’t Deerfield. Texas ain’t Deerfield. Dixie ain’t Deerfield. Upstate New York ain’t Deerfield.
To paraphrase the defenders of the Fort Morris in 1778 and those fighting for freedom during the Texas Revolution, ‘Come and Take ‘Em.’
Your ordinance is yet another reason why this country, at all levels, must be governed by conservatives. Liberals are proving again and again that they not only disrespect the constitution, but want to destroy it.
Ray Starmann
Editor in Chief, US Defense Watch
Progressives tried an election, but President Trump was elected. Then they tried to get the electoral college to elect Hillary, but that didn't go anywhere. Then they tried a special council to get him impeached, but that isn't finding anything.
So right now they are down to plan D, win the mid terms and get Trump impeached. If they can't do that, I think they may try a civil war instead of waiting for 2020. Since BML and ANTIFA are lame brownshirts who can't start anything and no one is afraid of them, maybe they decided to get us to start first by banning guns and throwing us in jail.
I hope, in this case, the pen is mightier than the sword and the Deerfield Village Board of Trustees get their heads out of that dark place where the sun don’t shine.
I'm wondering about their opinion of this 9mm FX-9 carbine? Sweet shooter.
Good statement. Deerfield, if for no other reason that facing bankruptcy, should consider the dollar cost of their action, of raised taxes, cut public works and services, to support their unconstitutional agenda. Maybe the good citizens might want to quickly recall their elected leadership and replace them before they destroy their community.
Another thread on this place talked about something in the ordinance, exempting government employees. The person who posted it, copied the pertinent section.
It talks about police and retired cops being exempt, but it clearly states, government employees. Didn’t clarify if that meant the cops or the streetsweeper. Just like the SAFE Act in NY, as originally written, would have forced the police to comply with the same rules. Which are bullsh*t, anyway.
Government clowns. Deerfield can solve this problem, if they wanted to. Start a recall petition and have some other people run for office. That city council will do, what that city council can get away with, obviously. If the city has a recall clause, start gathering signatures. When you have enough, recall them, one by one and start over. Simple. Someone just has to step up and get it started.
Lawsuit’s already been filed.
FX-9...NICE!
That 9mm has finally arrived!
I hate saying this but l believe we must tolerate these state level moves against the 2nd until we get al least one more SC Justice. Last challenge was 5-4 and Kennedy was VERY WOBBLY. In this atmosphere we could lose it.
impeach every damn last one of them, now!!!
I think they may try a civil war instead of waiting for 2020.
Won’t happen. Requires Cojones.
The left will try to start one? Are these idiots so stupid not to think that we will wipe them out? There’s the sole reason on gun confiscation by the left: to even the field because they too are disarmed.
"I read about some squirrley guy who claims he just don't believe in fighten, well I wonder just how long the rest of us can count on being free. They love our milk and honey but they preach about some other way of living, When they're running down our country, they're walking on the fighten side of me"
The Hag was a profit in his own right!
Those legislators in Deerfield, Illinois, now writing this stupid rule, simply MUST know that they MUST have their head on a swivel 24/7/365 now. Every place they go, every time they leave their house, the footstep they take just might be their last, in all the time left on this Earth that they have, in office or without. For they have made themselves an enemy of any and all those who have sworn a statement containing the words: “foreign or domestic”.
I wish them well.
People in IL do the dumbest things ad nauseum.
Why do you fear the high court? Are you telling me that you'll turn in your "assault weapons" if they rule that they're illegal?
BS! Who do they think would ever obey such a ridiculous, illegal, ordinance, anyway? They’re totally insane ! And could they find —and pay anyone crazy enough to dare even try to “enforce” it? What utter fools these pathetic little commies are! A million dollars for the first attempt, nothing for try number two - (because corpses don’t cash Cheques)...Or do the council people plan to try attempting that themsrlves ( a far better idea!)? This has to be some kinda joke —a very very very sick joke —
OOOH, I WANT! (drooling)
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