[marktwain]

The Illinois Supreme Court may decide whether the Firearms Owner IDentification system is allowed under the Second Amendment.

[Gay State Conservative]

I'm sure as hell no Constitutional scholar but I have a pretty fair understanding of the English language. And IMO the words “shall not be infringed” are very difficult to misinterpret. I can't understand how my state (and others) can so blatantly be allowed to infringe upon my 2nd Amendment rights to much as to make it just about impossible to exercise them.

[farming pharmer]

If law officers and bureaucrats paid a personal price for enforcement of unconstitutional laws, there would never be stupidity like FOID cards.

Why are the apparatchiks never held accountable?

[FLT-bird]

That needs to go to the US Supreme Court. That is a blatant violation of Americans’ constitutional rights.

What other constitutional right do you have to pay a fee for and ask the state for a permission slip for in order to exercise? Licenses are for privileges. Keeping and Bearing arms is a right.

[CtBigPat]

As a resident of Connecticut I have to pay hundreds of dollars and wait months for a permit before I can so much as buy a box of .22 ammo.

[WASCWatch]

Poll taxes and taxes to exercise 2nd Amendment rights differ how?

An argument can be made that taxing the purchase of guns and ammunition is the imposition of a wealth standard in order to exercise a franchise (i.e. Constitutional right). No different that what poll taxes were.