Gun Owners=Sex Offenders

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ISRA: Daley Proposal Enjoys Support of Gov. Blagojevich
U.S. Newswire
3 Mar 13:37
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.

:banghead: :banghead:

 

[tetchaje1]

Un-frickin-believable...

 

[Nightfall]

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.

With this kind of stuff trying to be passed, how can ANYBODY doubt that this is all just one step towards total gun confiscation? Common sense gun laws my arse.

 

[El Tejon]

I am sooo glad I left. Unbelievable.

 

[Airwolf]

HOLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys have just overtaken NY and CA for the title of "worst place to be for gun-owners".

This must never see the light of day. This is the final straw before confiscation begins. Some "administrative decision" by a cop that doesn't like guns and *poof* they come and take them away.

If this passes I'd say the line leading to American Revoultion II has been crossed.

 

[geekWithA.45]

ACHTUNG! PAPERS PLEASE!

I don't know if this bill is for show, or if it has any legs, but its passing would be a dark, dark day for America.

 

[JohnBT]

I don't understand. I'm just a simple gun owner. So if I move to this state after this law passes I have to become a Priest?

John

 

[JCOJR]

Why do the people in Chicago keep electing this ..... Daley?:banghead:

 

[voilsb]

just to play with the wording a little, I swapped "sex-offender" and "gun owner" in the below quote:

The provisions of SB1320 mimic gun owner registration programs in that sex offenders would be required to report to their local police stations on an annual basis for questioning regarding their sexual offenses. At that time, offenders 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 sex offenses.

 

[voilsb]

oh, and one other thing:

... the applicant would be granted a one-year extension of his or her right to own firearms.

so is owning firearms a right or a privilege?


maybe swapping one's right to "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" instead of "right to own firearms" get's you:

... the applicant would be granted a one-year extension of his or her right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

something sound wrong, here?

 

[The Mayor]

Sex Offender's names and addresses are posted on the internet in Michigan, I beleive freedom of information would follow that gun owners names and addresses would be plastered all over the net also.

Just imagine how mad you could make yourself thinking of the extremes that scenerio might take.

A detailed list of all your firearms.

For everyone to see.

 

[spacemanspiff]

geez...remember back in the day, when gun rights were "ERODED" away? now they're just being sandblasted out the window.

 

[DonP]

Grain of salt needed?

Guys, I have to take anything the ISRA says with a whole lot of salt.

The organization is run by a nuch of "moderate", self impressed RINO types that created a set of bylaws that require several hundred people as a quorum at annual meetings. As a result, with no quorum they keep re-electing themselves every year. Convenient huh?

They wield no political, or any other kind of power, and in general they seem to be a bunch of cranky old farts (not unlike myself) that sit aorund congratulating each other on how great they are for the second amendment with no results to show for it.

They have been a pitiful and disgusting excuse as a representative of gun owners in this state and have served as a block to any other group trying to stand up and carry the banner.

From what I can see their major focus in on creating crises that require us to mail them money to fight the "evil empire of Daley". I get a mailing about one crisis or another about every six weeks. All the while everything in the state has gone downhill like a rocket sled. "Quick, send us more money so we can fight for your rights."

In the last election for governor we had a genuine second amendment supporter in O'Malley in the primary and these guys sat with their thumb in a secure location and refused to endorse him.

They have a shooting range not far from where I live, but even as a member you have to pay a few hundred $ then put your name on a waiting list until they call oyu to say it's conventient to shoot there. It's the ISRA officers private little range in effect.

I really don't believe anything these guys say. Besides having a bill introduced means nothing. We have a concealed carry bill introduced every year and every year it dies.

But, of course, I could be wrong.

Don P.

 

[Airwolf]

Here's a link to the bill...

http://www.legis.state.il.us/legisl...e=&SessionId=3&GA=93&DocTypeId=SB&DocNum=1320

 

[Russ]

If only they could merge Illinois, California, Massachusetts and New Jersey on the West Coast and then give it all back to Mexico.

 

[Destructo6]

Think maybe Ashcroft's DOJ making a big deal over CA's misuse of gun records might be a signal to these schmucks?

 

[rock jock]

You know that line we talk about, the one that when crossed will justify a clear and forceful response? Well, I think I can see it a little more clearly now.

 

[BerettaNut92]

Sieg heil!!

 

[Thumper]

Rock Jock makes the point of the thread.

When's when?

 

[TarpleyG]

My wife thinks this is a perfectly acceptable proposal!!! What am I to do? :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

GT

 

[DeltaElite]

ahhhhhhh, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............

 

[BamBam-31]

Wow, for once, I'm glad I'm in Kali.

It's gotta be BS. Like our annual ammo tax thing. Politicians going thru the motions to say they tried, knowing full well it's BS and everyone else knows it is.

To think, gun owners photographed like Michael Jackson.

 

[Standing Wolf]

You couldn't pay me to live in Illinois—or do business there.