Government: Through down your firearms!
Citizens: Come and get them!!!
anyone starting a pool on how long before an officer gets shot for doing his duty?
This is a constitutional showdown that Daley will lose. Unfortunately it will take several years to get through the courts. At the end, I hope that the city will be forced to make restitution with appropriate financial penalties added on.
-from an ex-Chicagoan now happily living in the ‘burbs
I’m shocked.
Just join al-Qaeda and the Mayor will let you keep your gun. He’s a Democrat after all. The ACLU will take up your case if you are al-Qaeda. The media will give you all the support they can if you are al-Qaeda.
What a surprise: registration is used for confiscation.
Mayor Daley, meet Mayor Giuliana.
You two have a lot in common.
Laying out the red carpet for the Clinton Crime Syndicate.
They want to end the war, and bring the troops home from Iraq to round up so-called VRWC groups after the “return of the queen” who would object to her plans and policies.
“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.”
Who on earth is maintaining such lists; this is blatantly unconstitutional.
Thursday, Apr. 26 2007
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A downstate resident who complained to his local lawmaker about his Ameren electric bill last week was so upset over the issue that police ended up at his door, confiscated guns from him and are continuing to investigate, several sources confirmed Wednesday.
However, state Sen. Gary Forby, D-Benton, whose office fielded the angry call, said initial media reports that there was a death threat against himself and Senate President Emil Jones aren't accurate.
"There was never, ever a death threat. We just had a concerned person … who was upset about his Ameren bill,'' Forby said Wednesday.
He said the man, a Benton resident, did talk about Jones, and said things that raised concerns he might injure himself. "We thought there could be an issue with his safety … so we asked the state police to look into it,'' Forby said.
The incident, which began Friday and continued over the weekend, is the latest fallout from the electricity rate controversy that has raged in the Legislature this year.
That debate continues today, when a House committee is expected to take up a bill that would roll back and freeze rates for Ameren customers. Many believe that measure is ultimately doomed because of opposition by Jones, the Senate leader.
Forby and Jones, a Chicago Democrat, have been at the center of the rate controversy in recent weeks. Forby sponsored the Ameren rate-freeze bill that's now in the House. Jones, a rate-freeze opponent, sparked outrage Friday by using an obscure parliamentary maneuver to prevent ComEd from being included in that bill, an omission that could scuttle the whole rate-freeze proposal.
As that issue was playing out in Springfield on Friday, Forby said, a man called his district office in Benton and talked to a staff member there about the electric rate issue. Based on the tenor of that conversation, Forby said, his office alerted police. Police went to the man's house and confiscated several guns, according to local media and other sources.
An Illinois State Police spokesman confirmed Wednesday that there is an investigation but declined to provide further information. No charges had been filed in the case as of Wednesday afternoon.
A spokeswoman for Jones declined to comment.
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.
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?