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Daley's gun control legislation proposes 'micro-stamping' pistols, harsher penalties
The Chicago Suntimes ^ | 3-8-10 | FRAN SPIELMAN

Posted on 03/08/2010 3:24:19 PM PST by lex33

Mayor Daley today unveiled his annual package of gun control legislation and denied he's "swimming upstream" at a time when the U.S. Supreme Court has signaled its intention to overturn Chicago's handgun ban.

Most of the ideas are re-treads, but there are a few new wrinkles. They include a proposal to make it a mandatory Class 1 felony to "knowingly sell or transfer a gun to a known gang member."

Daley also wants to strengthen penalties for unlawful use of a weapon so those caught carrying loaded weapons are no longer, as he put it, "let off scot-free."

Yet another mayoral proposal would require semi-automatic pistols manufactured or delivered for sale in Illinois to be capable of "micro-stamping." The technology helps law enforcement link spent ammunition with the gun used to fire it.

Todd Vandermyde, the National Rifle Association's legislative liaison in Illinois, predicted that the mayor's package would go nowhere in the Illinois General Assembly.

"The pendulum has shifted -- politically and publicly. Many of the proposals the mayor has pitched year in and year out run afoul of what the Supreme Court is going to decide -- that there's an individual right to keep and own a firearm across the nation," he said.

Vandermyde scoffed at the mayor's proposal to raise the penalty against those who sell or transfer guns to "known gang members," arguing that there is "no nexus to criminal activity."

"I'm quite used to the mayor using the Second Amendment as toilet paper. But, now they want to use the First Amendment as a doormat and the due process guarantees of the 14th Amendment as a dishrag," he said.

At a news conference at police headquarters before the usual table-full of confiscated weapons, Daley flatly denied that the U.S. Supreme Court's widely-anticipated ruling makes this year's gun legislation dead-on-arrival in Springfield.

"I'm never swimming upstream. I think I'm swimming with the stream," he said.

Annette Nance-Holt's 16-year-old son, Blair, was gunned down in 2007 when a reputed gang member opened fire on a CTA bus crowded with students on their way home from Julian High School. As shots rang out, Blair sacrificed his own life to save a friend.

Today, Annette Nance-Holt once again channeled her anguish into an emotional plea for gun control.

"In a day when we're more concerned with obesity and second-hand smoke and animal rights, why are we not concerned about our children being murdered by handguns and assault weapons. Why are we not outraged?" Nance-Holt said.

"This is not a black issue. It's not a Hispanic issue. This is an American issue. These guns are out of control and our love [for] guns is out of control. Are they insane, or are we insane?"


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist

1 posted on 03/08/2010 3:24:19 PM PST by lex33
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To: lex33

Now if the issue were greater controls on corrupt politicians, I think Duh Mayor would change his tune!


2 posted on 03/08/2010 3:25:59 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: lex33
In a day when we're more concerned with obesity and second-hand smoke and animal rights, why are we not concerned about our children being murdered by handguns and assault weapons. Why are we not outraged?

Yes, be outraged. Buy a gun, homeschool, and defend your family yourself. Be outraged enough to use lethal force if the situation calls for it.
3 posted on 03/08/2010 3:28:21 PM PST by messierhunter
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To: lex33

IF Daley and other DA liberals would only charge criminals with the existing massive number of laws that already penalize felons for having weapons, INSTEAD OF DROPPING THE CHARGES AS PART OF PLEA BARGAINING, maybe they would have a better chance of convincing us they really meant what they are proposing and why they are proposing it.

Until then, I am SO NOT CONVINCED. He’s just a Fothermucker.


4 posted on 03/08/2010 3:30:17 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: lex33

So why is there crime in the Chicago ghetto? Too many years of Liberal handouts (welfare) which perpetuates low-income desperate conditions. Not to mention that scads of more gun control laws won’t have any impact on top of 40,000 gun laws on the books now. Get tough on crime, especially crimes committed with a gun.


5 posted on 03/08/2010 3:30:22 PM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: lex33

The damned fools are going to waste big bucks on microstamping then find it doesn’t work! Ignorant people shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the law!


6 posted on 03/08/2010 3:31:28 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT,NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: lex33
Annette Nance-Holt's 16-year-old son, Blair, was gunned down in 2007

So, how did gun control help him?

7 posted on 03/08/2010 3:32:11 PM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: lex33

Also he wants to ban foie gras bullets.


8 posted on 03/08/2010 3:42:26 PM PST by Pajama Blogger
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To: lex33
They include a proposal to make it a mandatory Class 1 felony to "knowingly sell or transfer a gun to a known gang member."

Would that include the "Gang of 14"?

9 posted on 03/08/2010 3:43:14 PM PST by Second Amendment First
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To: lex33
These guns are out of control

The maybe you should make laws target guns, not people.

10 posted on 03/08/2010 3:44:30 PM PST by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: lex33; All
I was taught a very long time ago by some very hard-eyed men, that when you frame the questions wrong, you are bound to get wrong answers...

The problem isn't hardware- guns.

The problem is software- criminals and gangs. And drugs.

This is just more talking-point, PC, touchy-feely blather for the faithful, who don't want to crack down on the crime problem.

You can flat outlaw guns, but as long as they are as easy to smuggle as drugs, you'll always have them.

11 posted on 03/08/2010 3:44:42 PM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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To: backhoe

I lived in Chicago 30 years ago. It was pretty nice. Daley is a freak.


12 posted on 03/08/2010 4:19:12 PM PST by hal ogen
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To: lex33

His father was crooked...the son is both crooked and a PROGRESSIVE. A deadly combination when it comes to the US Constitution.


13 posted on 03/08/2010 4:37:41 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: lex33

Idiots disarming law abiding citizens and allowing criminlas a better chance at us. We need to rid ourselves of this cancer they call progressive


14 posted on 03/08/2010 4:37:44 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Cockblock the sock puppet in 2010)
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To: lex33

little dick needs about a million fed lawsuits for deprivation of rights with his name on em...


15 posted on 03/08/2010 10:17:23 PM PST by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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