Posted on 05/06/2011 6:51:32 PM PDT by jazusamo
After the Supreme Court smacked down Chicago’s gun ban last year, the gun grabbers scrambled to evade their responsibilities under the Constitution. Outgoing Mayor Richard M. Daley revised the Windy City’s gun laws to place so many obstacles on the path to gun ownership that few law-abiding citizens would succeed. Now we learn that Mr. Daley wants taxpayers to foot the bill for a team of armed bodyguards to protect him once he leaves office on May 17.
Ordinary citizens who just want to protect their families get no such special treatment. Prospective gun owners must file an application for a Firearm Owner’s Identification Card with the Illinois State Police that consists of a check for $10, a passport-size photograph and a 30-day wait for a response. After this, they must take a $130 handgun safety course involving at least four hours of classroom instruction and an hour of hands-on training at the range. Because there are no public ranges in the city, an extra trip to the suburbs is needed.
Next on the list is the Chicago Firearm Permit, which requires an application form, more photographs, copies of the firearms ID card and a driver’s license, a set of fingerprints, payment of $100 and another 30-day wait. With permit in hand, a gun may be purchased - but only after another trip to the suburbs and a 72-hour wait. Mr. Daley also cooked up a 14-page list of forbidden weapons, most of which are labeled “unsafe” because he considers them to be scary-looking...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
In much of the country, 2A rights are actually privileges doled out to the serfs at the pleasure of the ruling class.
Meanwhile, any crook who want one can get one. They don't obey laws, of course.
"Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians."-- Alexander Hope (accidental president in the novel "HOPE" by L. Neil Smith, Aaron Zelman)
(Author Aaron Zelman ia a founding member of Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership)
Seems as though everyone makes fun of California, but we experience nothing like that when purchasing a gun. Why don't they have rules like that for reporters for the 1st Amendment before they can type an article for a newspaper.
Good point. I’ve been out of CA for a number of years but there were never laws like that. I didn’t know if that changed over the years but it seems it hasn’t. Up into the 80’s there was a three day waiting period to buy a handgun, don’t know if that’s changed.
Years ago it was the next thing to impossible to get a CC permit, has that changed I-M?
Ten day waiting period now unless it is classified as a “relic” i.e.: over 50 years old. I understand that CC is hard to get in most counties in Calif, but not in my rural county.
Thanks much. Glad to hear you don’t have to jump through hoops.
I like your idea!
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