Posted on 04/27/2007 7:25:59 AM PDT by bad company
That's been my experience also. I have also shot at Sheriff run ranges, and the Deputies were always very helpful and pro-gun. I have also met LEOs who are members of local NRA Members Council, and NRA Instructors teaching shooting classes to the public. They might enforce laws they disagree with, but that doesn't mean they are anti-gun rights.
I agree this is wrong but people should keep their FOID ID’s current.
Is it really difficuilt? If it is explain.
How do you go about doing it?
I agree this is wrong but people should keep their FOID ID’s current.
Is it really difficuilt? If it is explain.
How do you go about doing it?
Illinois officials are unconstitutionally claiming it is illegal to possess or purchase any firearm, ammunition, powder, or primers without having a valid one in your possession.
And US officials are unconstitutionally allowing Illinois officials to violate their constitutional oaths to support & defend the US Constitution.
It's time.
More lunacy from King Richard and minions
If they want and take the guns of private citizens then theoretically there would be no need for the cops to carry guns either. Anyone think even one of the cops would give up his right to protect himself?
Yet another reason not to live in California..
In Texas, someone merely being on your property (without permission) would never stand again.
God bless Texas!
Other than living in the state of Maryland, I do not wish to be placed in a database that in some unknown future they know I have weapons. Based on this Chicago story that is not an unreasonable fear.
I would rather have open carry allowed as in Virginia, so if you had a gun on your hip and your jacket is open you do not have to worry about the brandishing violation.
If you live in your fathers house, you better have his permission to store a gun in his house since that is his property and he is legally responsible. If you live in your own place then you have the ability to purchase a gun as long as your record is clean.
That History Channel special on Gen. Sherman the other night revealed that he used U.S. Census data to locate where to find forage and confiscate material on his march through Georgia. I never imagined that.
It is not a case of registration, per se. What it is is that the BATFE has required firearms dealers to report multiple handgun purchases in the space of one week by the same buyer at the same dealer.
That is the list they are using.
I'm on it, (class of 2006), for buying two pistols at a gunshow on the same day from the same vendor.
I have a CWP, and the dealer I bought my M1A from is now defunct (over insurance issues after a robbery), so I figure I'm on their list anyway.
To purchase a firearm or ammunition requires a current, unexpired FOID.
To transport a firearm on a public right of way, other than in disassembled condition, requires a current, unexpired FOID.
To possess a firearm in other cases requires a FOID that has been issued by the Illinois State Police. That the "current, unexpired" requirement is explicitly stated two places involving overt action, and is not stated in the passive case of mere possession, would suggest to me that someone whose FOID expired be forbidden from purchasing guns and ammo, and would be required to disassemble his firearms for transport, but would not violate the law by his mere possession.
I did a net search awhile ago for court cases on the issue and didn't find any, but given the rule of lenity it would seem an honest judge should throw out the charges on statutory grounds alone.
Funny, we never hear about these big city pols similarly scrubbing voting registrants.
Neither will I !
Neither will I !
Surely you jest. This is Chicago. The law is what King Richard says it is. An honest judge in this town? Surely you jest. Oh, I already said that.
Does King Richard control the IllSC? They've dealt with a number of firearm issues on statutory grounds, generally somewhat reasonably. The interpretation of the statute I've proffered would be both consistent with the text and logical. Further, in the case of people who are arrested more than 31 days after they can prove that they filed their FOID application (e.g. because the check cleared more than 31 days previously), the defendants should have the right to argue that the only their actions could even remotely be construed as criminal is that the state itself violated the law.
So, as the Progressive Marxist Gestapo goose steps down the streets of Cicero Blvd. How many will go to jail or die with their weapons in their hands.
I wonder how soon Chicago will have their “Night of Broken Glass”?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.