“Mayor Richard Daley expressed frustration today that the Chicago Police Department has not set up a database to let police officers and firefighters know how many firearms are registered in each home in the city,” the Chicago Tribune reports.
“A key piece” in the mayor’s response to a loss in the McDonald case, where the Supreme Court ruled the Second Amendment is applicable against state and local infringements, “[t]he mayor said it would help protect first responders by letting them know what kind of situation they might encounter when they went to calls in Chicago residences.”
That, of course, is nonsense, a cover story for the gullible that masks true intent. This is part of Daley’s revenge for his court loss, an attempt to make things as difficult as he can “legally” get away with, and a way to set traps for gun owners in the bargain.
Illinois law already requires a Firearms Owner Identification Card (FOID), approved and revocable by the Illinois State Police, as a permit to purchase not just handguns, but also rifles and shotguns. Additionally, all purchases require a background check. And the City of Chicago requires all firearms to be registered.
“Authorities” know which homes have guns.
Well, not all homes. They don’t have any way of knowing if “prohibited persons” have them. That’s because criminals not only don’t register their guns, the Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v Haynes they cannot be required to, because that would violate their Fifth Amendment-recognized right against self-incrimination.
The people who take pains to abide by the “law”, go through all the hoops and come out “clean” are no danger to first responders. So the real purpose of the boondoggle Daley has Supt. Jody Weis expending manpower and resources on? It’s harassment to discourage firearms ownership, and also a way to penalize those who do by setting up a series of possession restrictions, including a requirement that all but one working firearm must be disassembled, and to punish and take guns away from any hapless citizen caught in a technical violation.
Unless, of course, you’re co-author of the original Chicago handgun ban, Alderman Richard Mell—then if it turns out you “forgot” to register your guns, you simply write a new ordinance to allow yourself a grace period.
Everyone else can expect a visit from the CAGE unit, and don’t expect masked ninjas to be gentle about it. Which brings us to one more chilling initiative that should illustrate for all to see the mindset of committed statist gungrabbers:
To protect the city against costs for a lawsuit in case a police officer shoots an armed person while responding to a home, Daley also said the city will pursue legislation at the state and federal levels granting liability immunity for first responders and the city.
Just so we’re clear on where this all leads.
Yeah, give these guys a license to kill. What could go wrong?
Also see:
- Daley's armed bodyguard proves mayor's hypocrisy
- Does Mayor Daley dare order 80-year-old 'gun criminal' arrested?
- Chi-Town's pell-mell gun laws
And from Kurt Hofmann: "Is the lack of a gun registry dangerous, or just 'annoying'?
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I still think the 5th amendment should be offering protection to the innocent as well as the guilty, as it was meant to also help protect against false incrimination.
It does, but the ruling in Haynes is slightly complicated. The very act of registering a gun is not an admission of a crime if you are law-abiding, but if you are a felon prohibited from owning a gun, it is. Therefore, felons can't be prosecuted for failure to register. They still can be prosecuted for the actual possession, however.
It's too bad Daley's goons aren't Federal agents who are "just following orders." Then they'd be afforded sovereign immunity.
I have a friend that finally had to walk away as a Fed when he couldn't justify the Gestapo mindset that was running ramped. He couldn't have it on his conscience anymore. He's sleeping a lot better now.
However, like anything else, there are the good, the bad and the ugly.
Were I a CEO whose company resided in Chicago, I would move my company out of town, out of state. Vote with your dollars. Do not do busines with companies comfortable with Big Brother environments -- read-up on the topic of companies providing political money and power to enemies of the U.S. Constitution.
Ottoman Turkey, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, China Nationalist, Red China, Guatemala, Uganda, Cambodia and Rwanda have a combined total in excess of one half billion civilians killed. All by the hand of their own government following “reasonable” gun laws and registration. Need I say anymore?
Henry, I wish the examiner board would allow another level or two of replies. Registration may/may not be an admission of a crime, but I would think that it could easily be considered being a witness against yourself in future investigations, and while I don't know the case law on it, I was pretty sure you can claim the fifth even when you are not the focus of the investigation because you don't know what they may end up deciding to use against you in the future, it's with this that I would lump gun registration.
Simply put, every time a crime is committed with a black semi-auto 9mm, every registered 9mm XD and Glock owner has just bore witness against themselves in that crime by registering, and as a result opened themselves up to false incrimination as a result of being forced to be a witness against themselves.
Hopefully that makes sense.
Agreed. A criminal should never be afforded a right or a privilege or immunity not afforded to law abiding citizens.
Don't hold your breath waiting for the denizens of Chicago to fix this. They have passed through the state of being referred to as "sheeple" and are well on their way to becoming "eloi".
DDS -- NRA Life Member
David the issue you are reporting on maybe one of the most dangerous issue’s that Illinois gun owners will face in years. “New Potential legislation granting police immunities from shooting people in their homes”
Daley is looking for an “exemption” law for police/first responders if they shoot a person in the home while responding to a call. These types of law will affect the whole State and not just Chicago.
David the NRA/ISRA has a record of supporting gun control in the name of being tough on crime. I expect them to support this new legislation or play games by claiming neutrality while behind the scene supporting the legislation.
After-all the NRA/ISRA does not want it said they don’t support the police/first responders.
Here’s the danger David an exemption law will encourage the police to take a tough stance and use a harsher hand when kicking in doors of innocent people that respond to a threat from an unwanted intruder.
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David, Illinois cops are known for NO knock; kick in the door type raids/arrests.
“Daley is intentionally trying to create a situation that encourages a more aggressive response by police when responding to the homes of gun owners”
People need to understand that Illinois prior to the FOID card/1968GCA was a great pro-gun State.
It was the NRA/ISRA that convinced gun owners that Illinois needed gun control laws to stop a potential Black Revolution after race riots in 1965 in the city of Chicago.
Thanks Dave. Great work as always.
I truly do empathize with the unfortunate inhabitants of ‘Big Cities’.
In general, many among them amount to wholly-unnatural, ultimately unsustainable, man-made environments, and serve as magnets for perpetually-dependent people, illegal aliens, terrorist cells, whiny, personally- worthless liberals and are run by corrupt politicians and petty tyrants.
On the whole they’re all bankrupt. either morally, financially or both, and stand as self-evident testaments to failed social experiments.
To expect the pseudo-leaders who can’t control drug, sex and gun crimes on their own City-owned property to simply allow Morally-conscious, rights-respecting, law-abiding Citizens to provide, to keep and bear arms for their own defense---unencumbered by codes, rules, regulations, taxes, fees, registration and licensing requirements and whatever else they can conjure up to impair and impede Citizens willing to take personal responsibility for themselves… all the while trying to hide the mass corruption and dismal failures on their part, is well, simply unreasonable.
Given the direction our Nation is headed, I wouldn’t want to live anywhere near one, and certainly wouldn’t ever live in one.
Some problems that humans create for themselves simply can’t be solved. May well be that the problems created by ‘Big Cities’ is one of ‘em. Say, wasn’t Chicago the City that brought Americans prohibition? Just asking.
Aside from the mayor wanting to be shielded from the consequences of one of his cops shooting a homeowner there are two fundamental problems with this.
1. The Supreme Court has just ruled in Heller and McDonald that at a minimum The Second Amendment protects a person's right to be armed in their own home. Mayor Daley wants his cops to have the right to shoot people who are exercising that right.
2. The "business model" of our whole system of government was set up to be fundamentaly different from the way other governments were run. In the USA the people control the government. In world of the 18th century, and in many places today, the government controls the people. Mayor Daley seems to want the latter to be the system in Chicago, and there is no way he will ever have enough cops to control an armed citizenry. So he needs the threat of cops being able to shoot armed homeowners to discourage Chicago's citizens from exercising their rights under The Second Amendment, Heller and McDonald through fear of death at the hands of Chicago's police. The second problem is that the citizens of Chicago seem to have no problem with being ruled under mayor Daley's system.
And of course all of this is the NRA's fault.
DDS -- NRA Life Member
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