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.
Well, not until they notify the neighbors and put the info on websites. (Huh, I said that in jest and yet... geez... could even that come to pass now, I wonder? At least the criminals would then know which houses to avoid, and then everybody's best up-front protection is to own a gun...)
Bet an exclusion for the police gets added in an amendment or a substitute bill.
Seriously, though, this is HUGH, in a very disturbing way.
This bill could probably be killed just on cost issues alone. I doubt $25/year/registrant would cover the cost of fingerprints, mugshots, administration (including database management) and enforcement, especially in the face of a probably substantial amount of non-compliance.
This year, in WA, I've seen a number of bad bills killed just on the cost issue alone.
can leo's in kali buy a personal bushmaster, for home?
How warm is that pot of water today?
I have to play the straight line to this. I vaguely recall something about your book, but in God's own truth I have forgotten. ("So many books, so little time," is my plea.)
Please refresh my memory. By FReepmail, if you prefer.
(BTW, loved that photo in 21!!! You?)
One resaon to be glad Hollywood Jenny is busy on budget issues or we might be hearing about this in Michigan!
Or, even worse, Thoughtcrime.
("Break out the re-education camps. Our precursor 'sensitivity training classes' proved inadequate.")
Have no idea. Fled the wretched place 2 decades ago -- and what I fled from looks positively conservative compared to what I see there now!
NFW (emphatically) NFW
I will,as a "in your face" statement. I'm too old and tired to go hunting. I'd rather shoot from a baited field. Let them come for me.
Almost, my friend.
As the song goes "another day older, deeper in debt", a similar line today would go "another day older, closer to the line"
The tyrannical bastards seem hell-bent on crossing that line one day.
I only hope enough of the 'old geezers' (term used affectionately) are still around to help out, since for most folks under 40, Freedom is defined by having the ability to switch between reruns of "Seinfeld" and "Friends".
That's worth posting again.
Oh,well. What else do you expect from a high-school dropout? I've heard a lot of Jews use that expression,so I assumed it was Hebrew,and somehow connected to Massada.
NFW (emphatically) NFW
What evidence to you have that Jim Ryan, who spent a fair amount of state money on a "sting" of law-abiding gun dealers, is any less anti-gun than King George was?
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Gun owner registration is the Rubicon.
Leonidas, the Spartan King, said it to Xerxes when Xerxes' hundreds of thousands met a few hundred Spartans at the Thermopylae Pass. When Xerxes told Leonidas to lay down his weapons and he and his people would live, this was his reply. It means "Come and Get them".
It's also said that Xerxes then told Leonidas that the Persian armies under his command could darken the sky with their arrows ... Leonidas replied that the Spartans would just have to fight them in the shade.
The Spartans held the narrow pass for enough time to allw the Greeks to get back to Athens and raise a defense. In the end, the Persians were shoiwn a secret way through the mountains to get at the Spartans from the back. Attacked from both sides, all of the Spartans died.
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