These commie traitor bastards are pushing too far. They have no idea what hell is going to blow back.
Posted on 03/04/2003 5:07:16 AM PST by SJackson
ISRA: Daley Proposal to Extend Sex Offender Registration Rules to Gun Owners Enjoys Support of Gov. Blagojevich
To: State Desk
Contact: Richard Pearson, Illinois State Rifle Association,
815-635-3198; Web Site: http://www.isra.org
CHICAGO, March 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA):
The ISRA is calling upon state lawmakers to reject a plan to register Illinois gun owners in the same manner that sex offenders are cataloged. The proposal is part of a sweeping, statewide gun control program introduced by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley in mid-February. Governor Blagojevich has gone on record supporting the Daley gun control package -- including the gun owner registration scheme.
The gun owner registration requirements are contained in Senate Bill 1320, which was introduced this session by Daley ally Sen. Iris Martinez. The provisions of SB1320 mimic sex offender registration programs in that gun owners would be required to report to their local police stations on an annual basis for questioning regarding their firearms ownership. At that time, gun owners would also be required to sit for mug shots and be fingerprinted. If all goes well, and after the payment of a $25 fee, the applicant would be granted a one-year extension of his or her right to own firearms.
"Firearm owners from across the state are expressing their outrage over the proposed registration requirements," reported ISRA president Richard Pearson. "Daley's decision to lump hunters and sportsmen in with sex offenders shows the utter contempt he has for the state's 1.5 million law-abiding firearm owners. When SB1320 comes to a vote, we'll learn just who in the General Assembly shares Mayor Daley's views."
Since 1903, the ISRA has been the state's leading advocate of safe, lawful and responsible firearms ownership.
These commie traitor bastards are pushing too far. They have no idea what hell is going to blow back.
The current fee is $5 for 5 years. The proposed fee is $25 every year, ie $125 over a five year period -- a simple 2500% increase, not to worry.
Additionally, the one year renewal gives you more opportunity to forget to renew your FOID on time, in which case you're an instant criminal.
It's punitive anti-self-protection big-brother governmentalism.
I notice Mayor Daley still has his armed contingent.
Putting aside for the moment the FACT that if you have to apply for it,it is no longer a "right",but a privledge,the only proper response to something like this is to refuse to participate,and to shoot to kill any agents of the state that come to your house to illegally confiscate (steal,under color of the law) your firearms,and to arrest you.
Not that I expect to see this happen,though. 99% of gun owners are mice,and the politicians and the police know it. They ARE law-abiding citizens,and will meekly abide with any law or restriction that is passed. Once the burden becomes to hard for even them to bear,they will simply turn in their guns to the authorities and console themselves with ,"Well,I COULD have kept them if I had WANTED to. It was MY decision to turn them in. They didn't make me do this."
I am a law-abiding citizen myself,but when they come to get my guns,they had better bring more than one body bag.
Hell,he may even be more conservative than some alleged Republicans,like Giddy Dolt,Guiliani,Bloomberg,Snowe,Colin Powell,and others.
They always have.
It will. Once it has been passed it will be praised to the high heavens as a model system the rest of us need.
This is too subtle to be noticed by most FR posters. All the gooberment needs to do is say this is needed as a method to help control terrorism,and the FR Bush-Bots will stand up and salute it. And make no mistake about it,this WILL happen.
This is on page two.
Eaker
Yes,but it won't happen. There is no group more law-abiding than gun owners,and all they are going to do is grumble and follow the directions.
If every gun owner in Illinois ignored this illegal law, the justice system would collapse under its own weight.
Absolutely true. It won't happen,though. Any actual gun owner who tried to publicise any such act would end up arrested and bankrupted by legal fees. The only ones who could get away with promoting such a action is a non-gun owner who has his own radio or tv show. This ain't likely to happen,since all the radio and tv station owners are scared of pissing the Feds off. They can't afford to have their broadcast licenses suspended.
I really hope Dick Daley's stupid enough to make it happen by pushing through that idiotic proposal of his upon gun owners.
He will,and given the political reality of Chicago being the 700 lb gorilla of Illinois politics,he will get away with it.
Good point,since the precedent has already been established by the feds that living in the same house as someone who owns a gun is legally being "in possession of a gun".
BTW,where can I get one of those hats? That's Hebrew for "Never again",right?
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