Chicago Firearms Confiscation Begins

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Nick Leghorn

There’s a good reason that law abiding gun owners don’t want their names on a national gun registry — namely, registration leads to confiscation. Gun control advocates immediately spout that “no one wants to take your guns” and other assorted platitudes designed to comfort gun owners about the prospect of being treated like sex offenders. And yet, from the city of Chicago comes a story of exactly that: registered gun owners having their guns confiscated . . .

In Illinois, gun owners are required to get a Firearms Owners ID card, or FOID. It’s good for 10 years, and then you need to renew it. But if you don’t renew your card, or if you do something that displeases the powers that be, your FOID is NULL and VOID. Which means you can’t own guns legally.

Cook County police officers have become increasingly worried that when someone’s FOID card is revoked, their guns aren’t instantly confiscated. So they’re doing exactly what gun control advocates have said that registration would never result in — door to door confiscation.
From the Sun Times:

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A new Cook County Sheriff’s team is crisscrossing the suburbs to seize guns from thousands of people whose Firearm Owner’s Identification Cards have been revoked.

More than 3,000 people in Cook County have failed to surrender their revoked FOID cards to the state. Sheriff Tom Dart said he thinks many of them continue to possess firearms.

The Chicago Police Department conducts regular missions to recover revoked FOID cards and seize guns from the holders, but there wasn’t a concerted effort to do that in Cook County’s suburbs, Dart said.

“The system is broken,” the sheriff said. “The system revokes cards, but the guns are of no consequence. . . . Our strong hope is that we will eliminate tragedies.”

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We’ve said it before and we will say it again — registration only impacts the law abiding. Its raison d’etre is knowing where the firearms are when it’s time to go and get them. Criminals are exempt from the registration requirement due to the illegal nature of their activities, so keeping guns out of the hands of bad guys is a bogus claim when registration advocates try to make it. Registration only applies to the law abiding citizens. Period.

But the real issue is that gun confiscation schemes like this one don’t actually make the public any safer. In fact, I’d make the argument that registration and door-to-door confiscation like this encourage mentally ill people to avoid getting the help they need.
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Gosh. This looks unconstitutional. I guess maybe these Sheriffs would normally be sued and lose their houses, cars and any personal item of value under Section 1983 Article 42, but there are not any sane people living in Cook County anymore. They got the hell out of there when the welfare ghetto dwellers took over.

"“The system is broken,” the sheriff said. "

Yes,the system is broken when it places un-Constitutional burdens on it's citizens in order for them to exercise one of their CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS without fear of being murdered by agents of the government.

If you ever come to take my guns away,bring body bags.

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If you ever come to take my guns away,bring body bags.

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As someone who lives in a suburb of Shitcago, I worry about this every day . . .

"A new Cook County Sheriff’s team is crisscrossing the suburbs to seize guns from thousands of people whose Firearm Owner’s Identification Cards have been revoked.

More than 3,000 people in Cook County have failed to surrender their revoked FOID cards to the state. Sheriff Tom Dart said he thinks many of them continue to possess firearms."

What did these three thousand people do to get their cards revoked?

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What did these three thousand people do to get their cards revoked?

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What did these three thousand people do to get their cards revoked?

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*See a VA Shrink for PTSD
*Get a Divorce and the ex automatically files a restraining order to force a more favorable settlement
*Be prescribed any anxiety medication for any reason.
*Get in any sort of argument where police are called, or happen to drive by.
*say something anti-gay (or anti illegal immigrant or anti-0bama . . . )

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Wow! America is becoming more and more dangerous for a lot of us.

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As someone who lives in a suburb of Shitcago, I worry about this every day . . .

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Wow! America is becoming more and more dangerous for a lot of us.

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Only those of you still living in a big city with a Soviet style of governance. The rest of us left them years ago.

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As someone who lives in a suburb of Shitcago, I worry about this every day . . .

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As someone who lives in a suburb of Shitcago, I worry about this every day . . .

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Aren't you afraid you will be arrested by the local police for dialoging on a "subversive" forum like this?

Just a tip, if the local constabulary shows up to take your weapons and to do a general shake down, switch off of this site and have DU ready to put up on the screen. You can tell them that you were just doing research on how insane and violent the Right Wingers are by monitoring RR for all your Comrades at the DUmp. You will thank me later for this tip.

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As someone who lives in a suburb of Shitcago, I worry about this every day . . .

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You should worry about it. If I were you,I would consider moving to somewhere in America.

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Mr_Magoo wrote: "As someone who lives in a suburb of Shitcago, I worry about this every day . . .



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