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Confiscation of Registered Guns Begins
in Illinois
The ISRA is following up on
leads in one case that has
disturbing 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 apparently 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 Enforcement (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..
ISRA