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.
If I were a true American and patriotic and a LEO, I’d refuse to follow that order.
Hillary/Rudy can just send the patriotic troops overseas, and have the unionized ATF/SWAT goons do the dirty work, helped by every local police and Sheriff’s department with all their federally-funded ninja gear. And 99% will do it to keep all the union benefits, plus the adrenaline bonus
Hmmm...Didn’t realize Rudy was Mayor of Chicago.
This kind of Gestapo tactics won’t stand up to a legal test. Daley and his thugs have forgotten that this is America, not Nazi Germany or Communist Russia. No doubt this will be overturned, but only after a lengthy legal process.
It’s always easier for law enforcement to go after law-abiding citizens than criminals.
Daley is a dirty bastard. Let them come try to take mine.
And as an added bonus, they can show how active they are getting guns off the street to the PC crowd.
Never give a government any power over you that you wouldn’t grant your worst enemy.
I live in a gun registration state.
I’m not saying whether I have a gun or not but if i did, I would not register it for this reason.
It’s none of the governments business.
“After asking to come inside the man’s home, the trooper asked if the man owned a gun - to which he replied yes.”
Man should have said: “Do I have a Gun? Read the second amendment, and get the hell out of my house or I’m calling my lawyer to sue your department. Resulting, of course, in your healthcare portion YOU have to pay for your family going up, and your co-pays will also go up. Now.....do you have any more questions coming out of your donut receptacle, Fife?
However, some have no business in law enforcement. About 20% do not competently understand the US Constitution and many of the federal statutes on the books, especially when it comes to illegal immigration and RICO laws. Many just go around like mindless robots looking for the joint smoker, jay-walker, and the speeder selectively enforcing some law, not all the laws because their bosses tell them to ignore certain enforcements because of corruption and PC elected officials.
We hardly ever see cops with enough balls to investigate corruption on their own.
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WOW, and I just posted this yesterday:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823976/posts
Time for more Americans to act like these.
Exactly!! Once again...people fail to know their Constitutional rights if not a felon....especially in your own home.
very scary
Every unconstitutional law should be thrown out. The judges that refuse to do so should be impeached. As citizens, it is our duty to demand this.
Only a bit of wisdom here...but I would guess the revolutionary fellows did the same thing....one need only hide their weapons to set the engaged police dimwit back into position. No policeman can enter a house without a warrant. If you don’t invite the guy in...he can’t enter. I doubt if many judges will find logical reasons to hand out search warrants left and right. And to make the cops feel a bit of a dope...I’d have water pistols out and offer them to the dimwit. Of course, I’d have a guy with a camera just around the corner taking picture of the confiscation of my water gun. Looks real good on the internet and TV...and makes fools of the police...which in this case...they richly deserve.
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