Posted on 04/27/2007 7:25:59 AM PDT by bad company
The Chicago Police Department and the Illinois State Police have teamed up to make good on Mayor Daley's pledge that, if it were up to him, nobody would have a gun. Daley and his elite "CAGE" unit are apparently taking advantage of gun privacy loopholes to pinpoint certain individuals for inclusion in the confiscation program.
The ISRA is following up on leads in one case that has disturbing implications. An elderly first-generation Chicago resident was recently paid a visit by an Illinois State Police trooper. After asking to come inside the man's home, the trooper asked if the man owned a gun - to which he replied yes. The trooper then directed the individual to surrender the firearm. The man complied with the officer's demand and the trooper left with the gun. And the story gets better...
The gun in question was purchased legally by the man in the 1970s shortly after he became a U.S. citizen. When Chicago's infamous gun registration scheme went into effect in the early 1980s, the man registered the firearm as per the requirement. However, over the years, the fellow apparently forgot to re-register the firearm, and forgot to renew his Illinois FOID Card.
So...what does this all mean?
In the last edition of The Illinois Shooter, we reported on the activities of a shady taskforce known as the Chicago Anti Gun Enforcement (CAGE) unit. This elite squad, operated jointly by the Illinois State Police, the Chicago Police Department, and the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, supposedly exists to identify illegal gunrunners. However, information gained by the ISRA makes it clear that the CAGE unit is targeting law-abiding citizens, not criminal gunrunners.
Thanks to a ruling by a liberal federal judge, the CAGE unit now has the name of every single person in the United States who, since 1992, lawfully purchased more than one handgun in the period of a week. The CAGE unit also has all the makes, models and serial numbers of those guns. In essence, the Chicago Police Department is now registering guns and gun owners nationwide.
The ISRA has also learned that the CAGE unit has compiled a list of families where more than one person in that family holds a FOID card. Acting on that information, the CAGE unit is now contacting gun shops where those families have shopped, and is illegally registering all guns purchased by those families.
Now, it appears that the CAGE unit is scrubbing Chicago's gun registration list against the list of FOID card holders. Indications are that folks who have let their registrations and FOIDs lapse will have their guns confiscated. We have to wonder how long it will be until state troopers show up at the doors to confiscate the guns of non-Chicago residents who have let their FOIDs expire.
More later as this story develops.
You would then be in violation of IL State Laws which state that a written receipt must be issued for every sale of a firearm and said receipt must be retained by both the buyer and the seller for a period of seven years.
Said receipt must also include the serial number of the firearm in question.
Therefore the correct response to an armed agent of the State showing up at your front door is "Do you have a warrant?"
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What is a FOID card?
“Hillary/Rudy can just send the patriotic troops overseas, and have the unionized ATF/SWAT goons do the dirty work, helped by every local police and Sheriff’s department with all their federally-funded ninja gear. And 99% will do it to keep all the union benefits, plus the adrenaline bonus”
Good point. It is this exact scenario that needs to be feared.
Has everyone forgotten Waco?
To control a populace, you must first disarm said populace.
Well, from some Googling based on some old memories about such a list, it turns out that in one of the nuisance lawsuits by left-wing municipalities, the City of Chicago sued the BATF to release its "multiple sales record" database. (The NRA filed an excellent amicus briefing opposing this release.) The court ruled in Chicago's favor, and then it appears that the city decided to abuse that release by giving the list to this CAGE unit to be misused to harass gunowners.
SUPER POST!!!!!!!!
When I was in Illinois in 2001 I could show my out-of-state DL and buy ammo.
Firearms Owner IDentification card.
nobody would have a gun...except the criminal who can always obtain one in the black market.
No actually in time they will arrest and or simply murder anyone for that answer..
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When a cop visits you, it is NEVER because he wants to talk about football. Before inviting him into your home, always ask what it is about, and ask if there is any reason you cannot discuss it outside. If he says he HAS to come inside, that is a good sign it is serious and you already need a lawyer. If a cop stops and helps you on the street, he is your friend. When he comes to your home, he usually ain’t your friend, and you should not start out thinking he is.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I have several LEO’s in my family and they would say you are full of crap!
Thankfully, and by no accident, I am not subject to IL laws.
Assuming I sit around passively as they go house to house.
I have four LEO relatives and only one is against private firearms ownership,and he is a retired Illinois State police captain.Of the other twenty or more LEO’s that I know none of them think honist citizens should be denied 2A rights.At the police range of which I am a member(not a cop)they thin kmore people should practice as much as I do especially some of their fellow officers.
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