Cook County Residents! 11+Rnd Magazines = "Assault Weapon", Turn them In!

[mike101]

I spent about 18 months in Chicago at the behest of my company. My address was 1000 N. LaSalle, in the Gold Coast. NICE neighborhood.

However, it's only 3 blocks from Cabrini Green, world's worst project. Every single Fri. night, I heard gun shots coming from CB. My pizza delivery guy was mugged outside the front door of my bldg. while the doorman looked on, not even bothering to call 911. A friend and I were almost assaulted one night, two doors from my building, by a couple of punks who thought we were a couple of yuppies. Fortunately, we were badder than they were.

I could go on and on. Once, I called 911 myself, to report a crime in progress. No one answered.

They should be DISTRIBUTING assault weapons in that city, not taking them away. Daley, and his regime are the most useless, corrupt city officials I know of.

It's a shame. Otherwise it's a helluva great city.

 

[El Tejon]

mike, I was one block over. I lived at 1036 North Dearborn, right above the White Hen. Used to walk over to LaSalle to catch the 156 to the Loop.

 

[mike101]

El Tejon

You lived above the White Chicken!?! I loved that store. I would have surely starved if it wasn't for them. I was there '90-'92.

Did you ever hang out at the Lodge, on Division?
One night while I was there, a yuppie called a female bartender a name she didn't like. The cops were there in 20 seconds, hauling the guy away by his power-tie. I knew the manager, and he told me they pay the neighborhood cops to look out for them, and also to ignore the fact that they violate the fire code every night by cramming twice the limit of people in there.

So, the police will protect you, apparently, as long as there is something in it for them. I still had the time of my life there, though.

 

[rangermonroe]

A county can now write it's own criminal code?

Maybe I am living under a rock, but I thought that "Things that can get you locked up" had to be a state law? Not just voted upon by a dozen or so county commissioners.

 

[fantacmet]

Chicago, New York City, Boston, San Diego, DC or LA? Does it really matter? If they are willing to set themselves up to be the cannon fodder, that'll give the rest of us time to run home and grab the big guns and keep the foreign invaders corralled in those disarmed cities. Heart-felt thanks to the residents of those cities for offering themselves up as an easy target to give the rest of us those extra few minuets to grab a quick latte before we head for the front lines. It's a noble thing you do.

Hehehehe, OUCH DUDE.

Rev. Michael

 

[El Tejon]

No, we hung at Spike's Rat Bar on Elm. Where if the girls danced on the bar, Spike bought everyone a shot. Life was a little different in those days for me.

 

[Autolycus]

rangermonroe:

Its a county ordnance. IT will not be enforced outside of Cook county. Legally your in the clear with your normal capacity Glock mags as long as your outside of Cook County lines.

I am just tired of the politicians who just create new laws and dont announce them. Sad as it is, they tweaked the law and did not tell anyone that they changed it.

 

[mike101]

El Tejon

Spike's!!! I don't believe it. Spikes was always our second stop, if not our first, after we met at The Lodge. Mike (Spike) was a great guy. Ex-Navy Seal, which I'm sure you knew. Spike's is my favorite bar of all time. I wonder if it's still there. Hey, you and I might recognize eachother, if we ever met.

We also would drop in at Butch McGuire's, the place next to Butch's with the hot barmaids, and the place around the corner, on State, where the yuppies would go to lie about how much money they made. I can't remember the names.

Is Chicago a single man's paradise, or what ? All those flight attendants, Oak St. Beach, women on roller blades in Lincoln Park. What a town (except for Daley and his ridiculous gun laws).

It really is a small world, my friend.

 

[PILMAN]

Wow I used to live in cook county, my dad would be rolling over in his grave right now if he knew what was happening. I knew it was already restrictive to live there.

EDIT: White Hen had good sammiches.

 

[Green Lantern]

YOU RESPECT THE DPRK!!!! We have the market on gun control and dont you forget it!!

People from California and people from Illinois arguing about who has the better gun laws between the two reminds me of a rather mean poster I've seen that speaks of arguing on the internet in general....

In the case of the former, to put it in a more "PC" way....No matter who wins, you BOTH lose!

Tecumseh, I'm happy to hear you're moving soon, hopefully to somewhere where the politicos dispense "freedom" little MORE freely.

Sure, on one hand places like Crook - er I mean "Cook" county needs good men and women to fight for the RKBA....

But on the other hand....maybe some places can't BE saved...!

 

[El Tejon]

Mike, I was in my old neighborhood July '06 visiting another THR member who lives in Hyde Park. I went to Tsunami (here's the website, cool place, http://www.tsunamichicago.com/) a sushi joint on Dearborn and walked around the old nieghborhood. Forgot to look for Spike's. http://www.planet99.com/chicago/bars/531.html

Spike's was fun, but the hunting was always rotten there. Did better at Hange Uppe, Cubby Bear or Excaliber (or the Student Bar Association parties).

I like to visit Chicago, but everytime I am there I am a felon and unwelcome. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

 

[mike101]

El Tejon

Howdy. Looks like Spike's is still there. You're right about the hunting, but the girls I knew who hung there, I had already met at The Lodge. I agree about Excalibur. Went to Cubby Bear's once, right after a game at the "Friendly Confines". Mobbed. Couldn't hear myself think, but definately a "target rich environment". I would love to go back to Chicagoland for a visit, one of these days.

 

[rangermonroe]

For real?

So, If I have to get milk on my way home from the range and the supermarket is accross the county line, I run the risk of imprisonment if pulled over for speeding?

Maybe I should do a 'Dukes o' Hazzard' and run for the county line, slinging 30 round Ar mags out the window like they are keys of coke?

This is sick. The notion that my fellow Americans are subject to the misguided whims of a few, with criminal penalties, sickens me.

Edit to add: Chicago buddies, take it to PM. I don't give a rip about the White Hen/Chicken or where you used to live. I am; however, concerned about the abuse of power of a county government.

 

[rangermonroe]

For real?

Double tap

 

[alan]

Might this explain why it's sometimes described as CROOK COUNTY??

 

[rangermonroe]

Might this explain why it's sometimes described as CROOK COUNTY??

What an enlightened obsevation. Thanks for the input.

 

[Caimlas]

How are they going to enforce this?

They aren't, at least not right away. This is the 'best' way to ban guns: covertly and gradually. They'll ban something, and wait. Meanwhile, people will gradually give in and accept that such things are illegal and should be turned in - if, for no other reason, than to avoid the legal consequences. If not you, your children will turn them in when you pass away, or they will simply break, wear out, and become useless in 10-50 years.

Then, they do the same in other counties and states, until eventually there is a marginal amount of the country with any remaining freedom. Then they've got the levity for a complete firearm ban - or, at least, one more restrictive than what Russia and Britian have currently.

 

[Autolycus]

Green Lantern: I am moving to Bloomington-Normal Illinois for school. Unfortunately I will still be in IL but the politicos there are not as moronic as the Cook county ones. I have informed a few friends who were unaware of the new laws. None of them were aware at all.

One of the Cook County corrections officers I know feels that it is a good idea because it endangers the lives of police when people have equal firepower. This makes me angry due to the fact he has such an elitist attitude.

Anyways I would really like to see a pre-emption bill passed in Illinois. However I dont think we will see one soon.

 

[Autolycus]

Are high-caps ok with the home rule law? I was talking to someone today and they said they were.

 

[Sam Adams]

I used to live in NJ. When Florio rammed the AWB down our throats and made all mags of >15 rounds illegal, I didn't sell any of those I had. In fact, I made a point of going to PA (mostly) and NYS gunshows and buying 20- and 30-round mags for my Mini-14 (all since sold), plus a couple of >15 round mags for handguns. By the time I left the state, I had between 40 and 50 of the things. I am proud to have violated the illegal law, and I would do it again with great pleasure. I never did understand how a stamped metal box with an internal spring could be an "assault weapon." What are you going to do with it, throw it at someone?

I'm now in Texas, so everything that I own is legal - including perhaps another 50 mags that I've acquired since. I'm not giving them up - ever - nor will my guns be taken from me without a fight.

This law is clearly illegal; however, just as clearly, that won't stop you from being arrested and having your car or home trashed (along with any guns present at the location).

 

[yoyo88]

ok. so it got less than 2 weeks left and I just found out from ISRA. what the hack are those guys doing? No one even knew?

I called my district commissioner and complaint to the front desk for 30 min and it goes no where.

help me here: do we have to move the whole rifle out? or, just move the lower out? by definition, upper is not weapon, need not even a FFL.

but, that language about parts looks so confusing....
my upper does have a shroud (man, which rifle does NOT?)

thanks for the help

 

[Autolycus]

Where do you live? The bill apparently only affects people in Cook County's unincorporated areas. Meaning if you live in a township you would be ok.

 

[Neo-Luddite]

But the Mini-30 isn't on the list...funny.

May they burn in hell, and may no one turn in ANYTHING.

 

[yoyo88]

The bill affects the whole cook county - even townships - unless the township has a specific ordance that OVERRIDE the cook county ordance. I am not aware of any villages/towns here that have a favorable thing for gun owners. Some have special laws against.

You see, that's the whole problem. Most folks (including some stores) do not know about it, and I read the thing over 10 times and still confused on some, and based on different forum postings, most of folks are just like me.

sigh

 

[twenty711]

Sorry to hear that guys, we're fighting something similar in Maryland right now.

To quote the blues brothers "I hate Illinois Nazis"