Illinois AG Wants to Publish Firearm Ownership List

A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative ^ | 5 March 2011 | John Semmens

[Mr. K]

why? the public’s “right to know”??

Ok then I want the names and addresses and salary of EVERY GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE

[MaxMax]

Great, just check the list to find homes to invade.
I'm certain the Police will be there on time, for your funeral.

[MNDude]

how about the name of everyone that gets an abortion?

[EternalVigilance]

That’s insanity. Pure, unadulterated insanity.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Satire.

[EternalVigilance]

So, which part is satire and which part is true. It’s so hard to tell these days, especially in Illinois.

[MNDude]

this dang satire page gets me every time!

[Huck]

The most telling thing about these satire threads is how believable they are!

[Abin Sur]

That’s insanity. Pure, unadulterated insanity.

It also says that it's satire...

[Codeflier]

Almost got me with this one.

[drypowder]

Will that include those in the Chicago mafia?

[EternalVigilance]

I’m betting Madigan really does want to publish such a list.

That’s why I asked which part is true.

[smokingfrog]

You really know how to think like a liberal, John.

(I’m starting to worry about you.)

[Lazamataz]

John, you and I are both satirists, you being perhaps much more prolific than I am.

But we have a problem: That which we satire, either has been -- or becomes -- the policy initiatives of the hard Left.

This article illustrates the point well. The truth on-the-ground makes it almost impossible to satirize.

I recommend you see this satire I did a while back: THE ONION SHUTS DOWN: "NO MORE SATIRE POSSIBLE"

[MasterGunner01]

Publish all of Lisa’s personal information AND all print and electronic media employees in IL. Now THAT might make the state safer. It would give thugs a new happy hunting ground because we know how much the Donkeys and media hate gun owners. Thugs prefer disarmed victims.

Another thing, Lisa wants to give out the names of local, county, and state cops as well as everyday citizens. You think the cops want their personal data made public? I don’t think so, Ms. Attorney General. What a putz.

[fwdude]

Yes, satire is reality. Welcome to the 2010’s in America.

[EternalVigilance]

Yep. She really does.

Should List of Gun Owners Be Made Public?

Whose business is it if you own a gun? Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan thinks a list identifying all firearm permit holders in the state “must” be made public, but the State Police disagree.

Fox News reported that the showdown could soon come before a judge after it erupted last fall when an Associated Press reporter made a Freedom of Information Act request to the police for the names of permit holders and details about what weapons they are authorized to carry.

"My gun ownership is none of your business," said Republican Rep. Ron Stephens, who is behind a bill in the general assembly that would put the list under lock-and-key. "I don't know what Lisa Madigan doesn't understand about that, but obviously she's confused."

[EternalVigilance]

Illinois Officials Spar Over Order to Make List of Gun Owners Public

Fox News

[MasterGunner01]

This NOT satire. This a fact. IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan actually wants to do this. The Illinois State Police are not going along with her. (The ISP is the one that processes FOID cards and holds the records.)