Posted on 12/10/2008 1:51:10 PM PST by neverdem
I’m still ticked off because there was no perp walk or frog march, oh yeah, that’s right, he’s a liberal like Spitzer.
What’s sad about this whole thing is he has not done anything yet that would cause a liberal to go after him, so he has obviously ticked off someone connected to the Justice Dept.. Who would that be? Couldn’t be Hillary, this isn’t familiar bahavior, she doesn’t have a lock box on the FBI or installed judges. This has got me completely confused.
You have no such right in Illinois.
If you had such a right, why would you need a piece of paper, a FOID, to be able to exercise it? /sarc
Blogo, Daley, and Obama are big time gun grabbers. Although Obama has so little experience he hasn't grabbed too many.
Besides, the Judge could have ordered him held without bond as a major flight risk. He'd likely be welcome in Bolivia or Uraguay, or even Argentina. Or failing that Hugo or whichever Castro is still alive, would also welcome him. He's their kinda guy.
He probably had a hand in writing the law that requires a FOID to be surrendered. Certainly he and Daley are the major roadblocks to getting Concealed Carry in Illinois. IL is one of only two states, the other being Wisconsin, which have no provision at all for a law abiding citizen to be able to carry a concealed weapon. It's also illegal to carry any weapon openly, unless one is hunting or target shooting. Here's the NRA-ILA's summary of carrying in Blogo's state:
CARRYING It is unlawful to carry or possess any firearm in any vehicle or concealed on or about the person, except on one’s land or in one’s abode or fixed place of business. It is unlawful to carry or possess any firearm on or about one’s person upon any public street, alley, or other public lands within the corporate limits of a city, village, or incorporated town, except when: an invitee thereon or therein; for the purpose of the display of firearms or the lawful commerce in firearms; or when on one’s land or in one’s abode or fixed place of business.
Exceptions are persons using their firearms on established target ranges; licensed hunters, trappers, or fishermen while engaged in their licensed activity; transportation of firearms that are broken down in a non-functioning state or are not immediately accessible (e.g., in the trunk of a car); and transportation, carrying, or possession of a firearm which is unloaded and enclosed in a case, firearm carrying box, shipping box, or other container, by the possessor of a valid FOID. Under the Wildlife Code, it is unlawful to have or carry any firearm in or on any vehicle or conveyance unless unloaded and enclosed in a case.
So you need to have a FOID to possess a weapon, but you can not lawfully have that weapon ready for self defense, except on your own property, including your own business.
I hope they lock him up in the SuperMax, and throw away the key. But likely he'll get Club Fed, one of the minimum security prisons.
Except in Chicago, where guns are indeed registered.
Blogo is Chicago Mayor Daley's boy. Daley was likely to get a percentage of whatever Obami's seat went for.
How could he post bail, it’s not like he could shake anyone else down?
I heard on the radio Blago commutes a relatively short hop home two or three times a week costing the state tax payer $2,500 per trip.
Blago was one of the biggest gun grabbers there was when the jerk was in congress. I hope the police go to the governors mansion and confiscate all his now illegal guns.
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