Posted on 04/29/2002 4:16:06 PM PDT by tarawa
Copyright 2002 U.S. Newswire, Inc.
U.S. Newswire
April 29, 2002 Monday 9:33 AM
SECTION: State Desk
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HEADLINE: Chicago Police Officers Warned About Possible Gun Sweeps
DATELINE: CHICAGO, April 29
BODY:
The following was released today by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA):
The ISRA is warning employees of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) that the department's Chicago Anti-Gun Enforcement (CAGE) unit may soon swoop down on their homes.
The warning comes after the release of CPD Notice 02-18, which directs CPD employees to dispose of many of their personally owned firearms by May 1, 2002 or face the consequences.
Firearms subject to the disposal order include a previously published list of so-called "assault weapons" as well as many of the rifles typically used to hunt deer and other game in the state.
Issuance of CPD Notice 02-18 comes in the midst of a stepped-up effort by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to impose his personal gun control plan on a statewide basis. Earlier this year, Daley blasted the Illinois General Assembly for twice rejecting his extremist gun control package - pledging to sidestep the legislature by using his local political muscle to institute the package in one village at a time. Daley's first attempt at doing so failed miserably on April 15th when the Des Plaines (IL) City Council rejected a gun control ordinance introduced by Daley ally Alderman Don Smith by a 7-1 margin. The approaching May 1 gun disposal deadline is especially ominous in light of questionable tactics being employed by the CAGE unit. The unit was formed specifically to support Mayor Daley's efforts to run suburban gun shops out of business and to create an illegal registration database of law-abiding Illinois gun owners.
After several months of keeping tabs on the CAGE unit, the ISRA has come into information on tactics that should send a shiver down the spine of any freedom-loving American. Among such tactics are attempts to entrap gun shop clerks into making illegal gun sales; inspecting and copying gun shop sales records for households where more than one person holds an Illinois FOID card and; visiting the homes of law-abiding gun owners and demanding to inventory their firearm collections without benefit of a court order.
In light of the disposal order, Chicago police officers should be especially concerned about the CAGE unit's tactics. The ISRA is aware of the case of a Cook County Sheriff's officer who was questioned by the CAGE unit about a used gun he legally transferred to a gun shop more than ten years ago. Although the officer made every attempt to comply with the CAGE unit's inquiry, the investigations team threatened the officer with the loss of his job and pension. Despite having complied fully with the CAGE team, he found himself on suspension.
The ISRA suspects strongly that the CAGE unit has been gathering information on the gun buying habits of fellow CPD officers and that, after May 1, officers who may have owned any of the firearms on the disposal list should expect to undergo questioning by the CAGE unit.
"My advice to any CPD officer who has ever owned a gun on the disposal list is to get a lawyer - a good one," commented ISRA president Richard Pearson. "You may show up for roll call later this week just to find yourself on indefinite suspension. Or, you may get a frantic phone call from your wife or kids telling you that there are a half dozen big burly guys wanting to come in and look at your gun collection. In any case, Mayor Daley plans to make you pay for not sharing his views on gun control. I wish you luck, you're going to need it."
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The ISRA is the state's leading advocate of safe, lawful and responsible firearms ownership. For nearly a century, the ISRA has represented the interests of over 1.5 million law-abiding Illinois gun owners.
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CONTACT: Richard Pearson of the Illinois State Rifle Association, 815-635-3198; Web Site: http://www.isra.org
The cops are eating their own.
I bet your tin foil hat cost you a pretty penny.
Last I checked, officers of the law are on the enforcement side - not the creating side.
A police state ? I sure hope you are not refering to your home state. I had several encounters with law enforcement agencies while there. 1) going just a tad over the posted speed limit - let go with a stern warning. 2) one each Sheriff Buford T. Justice (big pot belly, mirrored sun glasses) just did not like my truck. I assume he figured he would find / smell something, don't know. He let me go - after a bit. 3) Fish and Game - using wrong equipment on wrong part of river. Man, you talk about "code" for rules on fishing. Wow. And after a bit of a lecture he let me go. The military ID did no harm in all above.
Decent bunch of folks I'd say - 'cept maybe for Buford - he was a butt.
LVM
Don't be so smug. You are only a few names down on the same list.</p.
What do you figure mere illegal posession will earn an officer?
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*IL: Chicago Mayor Daley, German Gun Control and the Illinois FOID *
Daley? He is drunk with absolute power. But even the most powerful fall. This is not the 1950's. This is 2002.
I may make it a personal goal to personally politically bring him down.
Could it be that his buddies would like a disarmed public?
A survey several years ago in the Philadelphia PD showed that fully half of all the police officers would engage in door to door no knock raids to confiscate firearms "if all the paperwork was in order" in spite of both state and federal constitutions guaranteeing the RKBA.
My comment is that after a few of those JBT's were killed, you would find far fewer volunteers for door to door raids.
Last I checked, they were supposed to be PEACE officers, preventing honest citizens from being harmed by others, instead of the stings, falsified warrants, and confiscation as booty for enforcement of arbitrary draconian laws.
Another JBT?
Amarillo, Texas-The homeowner was forced to lie down in his kitchen when hundreds of rounds were hitting his house. The dead officer was later found to have been shot by one of their own and the homeowner never had a firearm available. Charges were dropped.
California-The seige where Beck was holding off the officers and a neighbor had to tell some of the firing officers that they were shooting at the wrong house. One on the officers looked at the other and said something like, "I thought it was the blue house?". The owners of the wrong house escaped injury by taking refuge in a bathroom with their baby.
It might be a good idea to remove all the exposed tree roots around your house. You don't want to be shot in the head by the SWAT team.
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