Date: Sun Jul 15, 2001 3:08 pm
Subject: Illinois confiscating registered weapons
Here's what the state of Illinois is doing with all those un-Constitutional records and laws that have been implemented.
From the home page of the Illinois State Rifle Association.
- Mike Johnson
http://www.isra.org/indexa.shtml
It Has Started! Illinois Begins to Confiscate Registered Guns
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 apparenlty 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.
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-- Rags (RaggedReb@aol.com), July 15, 2001