[GigaDittos]

The Wilmette hand-gun ban is unconstitutional. Therefore he had no compulsion to follow it. It is null and void. Any police officer that tries to enforce an unconstitutional law should be imprisoned. He no longer an officer of the law, but an officer of tyranny. Any officer out there shouldn't be patting themselves on the back, but hang their head in shame for being unAmerican. The Wilmette police chief should be recalled and fired. They say there is no excuse for ignorance of the law, well that's a double-edge sword and cuts both ways. If you are doing something that breaks the intent and words of the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution, you are ignorant of the law and a complacent pawn of tyranny. You don't arrest people for having guns, you arrest them if they use them unlawfully. Protecting one's life and property IS the reason for our laws. We hire law enforcement to doubly assure this process, but it does not remove authority from the people from whence all power comes.
I get so tired of all the complacency of the citizens and government authorities that fail to think at all about what they are doing. The citizens of Wilmette need to determine who passed this ban and hold them accountable by voting them out of office or firing them. There is no gray area, you have either infringe upon the right to bear arms or you have not. If for example you drive your car at a police officer standing on a street, he has the right to stop you with deadly force. Someone tell me how "We the People" do not also have that right. Please! Sometimes I think that most people in this country have no ability to think critically in the least. Sorry, I'm blowing off some steam.

[GigaDittos]

"Any officer out there shouldn't be patting themselves on the back, but hang their head in shame for being unAmerican."

Correction: Any officer out there doing this shouldn't be patting themselves on the back, but hang their head in shame for being unAmerican.

[supercat]

The Wilmette hand-gun ban is unconstitutional.

Unfortunately, the Illinois Supreme Court has declared that cities may ban or arbitrarily restrict ownership of any type of firearms provided only that they don't absolutely forbid ownership of all firearms. I know that doesn't make such bans unconstitutional any more than a court declaration that "two plus two is five" would make it so. But the government that makes such declarations is more than willing to use force against anyone who would challenge them.