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A New Way to Backdoor a Gun Ban: Onerous Insurance
Publius' Forum ^ | 2/20/09 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 02/20/2009 6:21:18 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus

Want a gun in Illinois? Fine. Then you'll be forced to carry an expensive, million dollar insurance policy to be "allowed" to observe your Second Amendment right. At least, that will be the law if lefty gun-banner Kenneth Dunkin has any say in the matter.

Dunkin (D, Chicago) has made this attempt to undermine the Second Amendment even worse than a mere "insurance" policy. He has also slipped into this unConstitutional morass a provision that says gun owners will be liable if their gun is used in a crime after it has been stolen from them. The bill also authorizes the State Police to confiscate the firearm owner's ID (FOID) from any citizen that doesn't comply with purchasing the hefty insurance policy...

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: armedcitizen; banglist; ccw; democrats; guncontrol; guns; illinois; jbt; policestate; rkba; secondamendment
These guys really don't care about law. They only want to abuse it to get what they want.
1 posted on 02/20/2009 6:21:18 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Mobile Vulgus

“Shall not be infringed” means what it says.


2 posted on 02/20/2009 6:23:57 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

On Glen Beck’s FNC show yesterday, he pointed out the the required insurance is not sold by anybody.


3 posted on 02/20/2009 6:24:04 AM PST by patton (SPQA - the last, the least and the lost)
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To: Mobile Vulgus
All the insurance I need. If it's not in my hands it's in one of these.

http://www.ftknox.com/

4 posted on 02/20/2009 6:28:38 AM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

If this unconstitutional piece of crap doesn’t fire up the downstaters, I really don’t know what will.


5 posted on 02/20/2009 6:39:27 AM PST by AngryJawa (Obama's Success is America's Failure)
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To: andy58-in-nh; All

“Shall not be infringed”

You couldn’t string together 4 more unambiguous words if you tried!


6 posted on 02/20/2009 9:49:27 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

When has insurance fallen under the “police power”?


7 posted on 02/21/2009 12:34:48 PM PST by supercat (Barry Soetoro == Bravo Sierra)
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