This is from the Illinois State Rifle association, at
http://www.isra.org/indexa.shtml

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.

[url]www.isra.org/indexa.shtml[/url]

Tell me it ain't so!

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Unfortunately, otherwise law enforcing LEOs are being asked to do the dirty work for the unconstitutional self appointed gun grabbers. This could prove to be everyones undoing, pitting normally law abiding citizens against the LEO types, just trying to do their jobs. No good can come of it. What can be done? A warped mind would think to go to the source, which would only play into the hands of the anti-types. The other extreme would be to dutifully line up to turn them in. Hiding them will just get your house torn up. Any options are not good ones, are they?

One of the biggest things I see in this, is the required FOID card. Just another damn tripping stone or hoop for gun owners to jump through. Forget to re-up the card.......BAM.......instant illegal possesion. End up in court for something totally unrelated, they decide to revoke your FOID card.........BAM........instant illegal possesion. For some reason these pukes think that taking away ones license to own a gun and then taking his guns sounds better than just taking his guns. It is probably a lot easier. Revoke a FOID card and you have instantly turned your former citizen into a criminal, thats horseshit no matter which way you slice it. May the bastards rot.

I have never heard of any LEO being DRAFTED, so anything they do is voluntary. Any LEO that engages in this action shows that they either have no respect for individual rights, or they do, but value the dollar over any integrity they may have. To a point that is true, but laws like this would be meaningless without someone to enforce them. Those who will be affected by this law most likely did not vote for the folks who put it in. But there is still absolutley NO excuse for any LEO who has sworn to uphold the Constitution to be doing this.

This is an indication of what I thought would be the problem when the time came... plenty of LEO's willing to do this, or defend their "blue-brothers" who do it. I guess they do value the dollar over thier integrity... I just wonder if they know just how dangerous a job they are undertaking?

Very disturbing. What a lot of LEOS don't think about is whether or not they are doing something unconstitutional and that this very act could effect them later on. LEOS in many states are required to carry a weapon at all times on or off duty. They always have their guns all the time and they don't think that there will ever be a day when they will not be allowed to carry those weapons. Even when they leave LE. Thank GOD for LEOS like Waverunner, Sherm8404 and a few other pro-gun LEOS on the board. I would like to see some more LEOS speak out against this, especially LEOS from the state of Illinois. LEOS that get into a special unit or Task Force like SWAT, ESU, and CAGE are very full of themselves and the gung ho nonsense. They are hugry for a tactical raid and they love to go on any mission, no matter how unconstitutional it is. They figure that they are protected by the Mayor and other high officials. We had a special task force here in NY. Those LEOS ended up going a bit too far and the first one to turn their back on them was the MAYOR himself. So all you gun confiscating LEOS in Chicago, take heed. If you get in a jam and something goes wrong, don't be surprised if your wonderfull mayor turns his back on you and hangs you out to dry. That would only be the beginning, because you will be brought up on charges in both civil and criminal court. Chaces are that you will be a FELON and your task force days will come back to haunt you like they did in NY. I know and respect most LEOS and have freinds and family in LE. Some Mayors send you guys out there believing that you are fully backed by him and other elected officials, you are not.

This is WAY too big of a deal to be buried on page 7...

-Troy

Avoiding another Waco, I see?  Hmmm . . .

Sounds like a plan!