This was from one of my eamil alert sevices-
A report by the Illinois State Rifle Association:
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 distrubing
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 Efforcement (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.