Posted on 01/18/2006 10:37:29 AM PST by neverdem
Both plan to make it top priority this year
After several failed attempts to pass a statewide ban on assault weapons, Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley said Tuesday they will make the initiative a top priority in the current session of the state legislature.
In a joint news conference, the two Chicago Democrats called on the General Assembly to support their proposal to ban the manufacture, sale and possession of semi-automatic and .50-caliber weapons.
Blagojevich said his plan would do away with some of the most powerful guns on the market, and that it therefore doesn't affect the rights of law-abiding gun owners who want weapons for self-defense or hunting--a point vigorously put forth by gun-rights groups.
"We don't need to have TEC-9 assault weapons, Uzis or AK-47s to protect our homes, protect our neighborhoods or to go hunting," Blagojevich said. "And you certainly don't need the .50 caliber sniper rifle to do anything but act as a terrorist and be a criminal and a gangbanger."
The governor will make a pitch directly to the General Assembly when it convenes for his annual State of the State Address on Wednesday. That speech comes two years after the expiration of the federal ban on assault weapons, after Congress failed to re-enact it.
Even before the expiration, law enforcement officials and gun-control advocates have been trying to enact some form of assault-weapons ban at the state level. Seven states have done so but in Illinois, efforts have failed by a handful of votes.
Still, Blagojevich and Daley think there may be some momentum behind their efforts. Last year, lawmakers sided with gun-control groups on several votes, including one to require background checks for all sales at gun shows.
Daley said the next step is to get rid of assault...
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Blagojevic and Daley don't need guns to protect themselves and their families they have POLICE assigned to do that. Regular citizens are on their own.
Will you give up your armed thugs Bodyguards first???
Trying to imitate Mitt Romney?
Please consider taking these kids plinking at the first opportunity (assuming parental permission). I've taught many of my kid's friends how to shoot. Many develop a passion. Many are willing to defend that passion at the ballot box.
A lot of kids don't understand economics, are open-minded about gays, abortion, etc. Give them a passion for firearms and you'll create young Republicans (or at least Libertarians). One thing for sure, they will NOT vote for the gun-grabber party. This "single-issue" was enough for me personally 25 years ago and still counting.
As always, make sure safe handling is the priority.
Regards, HW
Good advice.
I plan to take my grandson to the range this spring - if I can persuade his mother.
Blowjerkoffbitch was Brady's floor leader whan he was in the us Kongress.
That's just it. These sinister bastards don't want to eliminate the problem entirely. They will not be happy until every citizen comes crawling to them on their hands and knees relying on them for everything. Then they'll have us right where they want us. Self-reliance just doesn't fit into their agenda.
Do you use a button die for the rifling? If so, where do you get them?
Blago is an idiot. How many times is there going to be a vote on this?
It isn't a coincidence that Presser vs Illinois is one of the two landmark cases on violations of the Second Amendment, the other being U.S. vs. Miller, which relied on Presser as precedent.
Chicago union-busters were using Chicago cops to break up labor meetings and break heads. The state of Illinois concurrently moved to restrict firearms ownership by passing a law that restricted the Illinois Militia (Guard) to a roster of 8600 reliable souls -- and then relied on the Militia Clause to restrict RKBA to the 8600 political reliables.
Presser was arrested because he was a) a labor organizer and b) not a member of the 8600. He was convicted under Illinois law, and SCOTUS upheld the conviction (the RKBA equivalent of Plessey vs. Ferguson) on the theory that the States are the repositories of individual rights, not the federal Constitution, and that if Illinois said that only 8600 people have rights, that was OK with SCOTUS.
Methinks they took the blindfold off, personally.
That case stinks to high heaven and cries out for overturn -- as does Miller, which was argued by Franklin Roosevelt's Solicitor General against a brief sitting on an empty defense table, representing an absent lawyer, a dead defendant and an indigent and lawyerless co-defendant.
No wonder SCOTUS refuses to accept any new Second Amendment cases. The body of case law cries of moral and intellectual corruption.
Ah, didn't know that. Didn't know the other thing, either -- LOL!
Maybe a world war would help clean out these nests of America-haters. (OK, so spank me for thinking it.)
Your description of Miller is so vivid, it reads like a scene from a movie.
what kind of rifle is that? looks like a Vz52...
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