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.
Government: Through down your firearms!
Citizens: Come and get them!!!
anyone starting a pool on how long before an officer gets shot for doing his duty?
MEGA BARF BARF BS WITH SHEEPLE BEING SERVED UP TO THE ALTER FOR THE CANNIBALS IN GOVERNMENT TO CONSUME.
This is a constitutional showdown that Daley will lose. Unfortunately it will take several years to get through the courts. At the end, I hope that the city will be forced to make restitution with appropriate financial penalties added on.
-from an ex-Chicagoan now happily living in the ‘burbs
I’m shocked.
Just join al-Qaeda and the Mayor will let you keep your gun. He’s a Democrat after all. The ACLU will take up your case if you are al-Qaeda. The media will give you all the support they can if you are al-Qaeda.
What a surprise: registration is used for confiscation.
Do you know why the British went to Concord in the first place? They went to disarm the populace.
I agree, come and get them. I recall the retort to this was, how can you stand up to a government with military weapons with your puny handguns. I retorted, why would you want a government that would use them on you.
“anyone starting a pool on how long before an officer gets shot for doing his duty?”
If he gets shot violating the Constitution then I have no sympathy for him.
Question is, how do I arm up without my father knowing?
Even though he’ll probably read this, I don’t care. I have the right to protect myself and my family. One night it may have to be by force.
Mayor Daley, meet Mayor Giuliana.
You two have a lot in common.
Let’s hope it never comes to that, but I have to say that any LEO who would be part of this task force, is most definitely NOT doing his duty.
Maybe they should marry.
While they may say "oh, I'd let YOU have one", they'd really rather nobody had guns but them.
After all, who knows best about how society should be structured...and who should hold power in a society...than the police?
“Too much other high crimes in the state of Ill. for the government to worry and push their gun control crap. “
They’re not about preventing crime, but controlling people.
Interesting that they’d rather crack down on loaded weapons instead of loaded illegal aliens.
Makes sense, when I use liberal logic, that they’d focus on the group that isn’t on the streets killing Americans.
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