Nice move, Dick....
“Re-register”????
Ha!!!
None of their damn business in the first place!
That’s the line of crap they fed gun owners in New York, just before they outlawed them!
Ald. Richard Mell (33rd) is a former hunter with an arsenal of weapons that reportedly features shotguns, rifles and pistols, including a Walther PPK of James Bond fame.But there's a problem.
Mell forgot to re-register the weapons as required every year by the ordinance that he helped to pass as one of the City Council's most senior members.
So, what does an alderman do when he finds himself in violation of the law? He writes a new law. Mell has quietly introduced an ordinance that would reopen gun registration in Chicago and create a one-month amnesty for himself and other gun owners in the same predicament.
During the monthlong window, gun owners who attempted to re-register their guns between May 1, 2007, and April 1, 2008, only to be rejected on grounds the registrations had lapsed would be allowed to re-register without penalty.
"It's not just for me. It's for other people with the same problem. It's giving people who legitimately registered their guns at one time only to let it slip by a chance to come back into compliance," Mell said. "Some people didn't realize that, every year, you have to re-register your guns."
As an aldermen who helps write Chicago's gun laws, Mell acknowledged that he should have been in compliance with the re-registration requirement.
"I knew it was the law. I thought it was being done [by a staff member]. If you have a person you trust to do it and they don't do it, then it doesn't get done. I'm not gonna say it's embarrassing. I'm just gonna say I should have done it," the alderman said.
Mell said he first realized he was in violation of the re-registration requirement about a year ago. When he tried to re-register his guns belatedly, the Chicago Police Department's Gun Registration Section refused to bend the rules. Mell appealed that ruling to the city's Department of Administrative Hearings but decided to re-write the law instead."When we looked at the law, we saw the possibility of winning [the appeal] wasn't gonna happen," he said.
Not in The Old Dominion!
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I’m just a dumb hick here in Pa clinging to my guns and religion, but could someone please tell me what an “Alderman” is? Chicago seems to have some screwey job titles over there. I’m still trying to figure out Obama’s old job of “Community Organizer”. If anyone knows what that is I would appreciate you letting me know. I am serious by the way. We don’t have these jobs here.
In the meantime, since he apparently was the one who pushed for these laws, I think he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Cuff him and send him to the clink. Let him pay a lot of money to get out and prove his innocence. It could not happen to a nicer elitest snob...
He’s a gun criminal. Send him to prison forever.
Not really.
So, everybody in Chicago has to register their guns every year or else - and if they don't... they can't - and there is no appeal (except for Helpful Mel's new 30 day extension law).
Did I read that right? Then what? Are the guns confiscated? What are the criminal penalties for all these formerly law-abiding citizens if they don't re-register?
Chicago is a are gun control fascist's dreamland (see my tag line).