Posted on 02/13/2003 8:42:44 AM PST by Mini-14
SAVE THE ELEPHANTS FROM THE RHINOS!
Of course below is what Hizzhonor believes is "reasonable gun control". Governor Blag (the impaler?) goes right in line with him too, other than the increase in the FOID fee, and that only because it was costing him votes downstate and it's a bit too soon to reverse himself again on the issue
Sources said Daley is promoting nine separate gun-control recommendations, six of which were previously introduced in the General Assembly and died.
Now Daley is proposing to raise the fee for a FOID card from $5 for every five years to $25 per year to cover new security measures that would require every applicant to be fingerprinted and photographed in person, sources said.
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The mayor also wants a 10-day "cooling off" period before a buyer can take possession of a gun--up from three days, sources said.
Daley will reintroduce six other proposals: a ban on assault weapons such as Uzis; a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines; a one-gun-a-month purchase limit; background checks for firearms bought at gun shows; state licensing of gun dealers, and a requirement for gunmakers to test-fire every gun sold in Illinois for a computer database on the unique "fingerprint" each gun leaves on a bullet. The database would allow investigators to link bullets to guns.
Since Illinois firearms laws are already enough to gag a maggot, the prospects for the future are dim indeed. All this in a state whose Constitution reads ""Subject only to the police power, the right of the individual citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Section 22, Article I of the Illinois Bill of Rights." ( The Sixth Illinois Constitutional Conventions Committee on Bill of Rights in their official commentary interpreted this provision in 1970 as a guarantee that "a citizen has the right to possess and make reasonable use of arms that law abiding citizens commonly employ for purposes of recreation or protection of person and property." Any use of the police power, the Committee said, that "attempted to ban all possession or use of such arms, or laws that subjected possession or use of such arms to regulations or taxes so onerous that all possession or use was effectively banned, would be invalid.")
That's why enemies of this nation and all it stands for are so hell bent on undermining, negatig and destroying it.
They know.
“I’m sorry Mr. President, I’m afraid the scope isn’t much better; it’s a very common inexpensive model, one of millions really... I think we’re going to find that the sniper left us a sterile gun, virtually impossible to trace. And that could be part of a message the sniper might be sending us.”
“What message? Expand on that.”
“Mr. President, there’s probably ten million high powered hunting rifles floating around out there with telescopic sights capable of hitting somebody at five or six hundred yards. It’s anybody’s guess how many of them have been fine tuned enough to hit somebody at a thousand yards or more, that’s over a half a mile. And I don’t mean hit a section of a stadium, I mean hit one particular person, like what just happened to Senator Randolph.”
The situation room went dead quiet, all of them knew Senator Randolph, and several of them had been to her house at one time or another. The sniper had obviously planned the assassination well in advance, and if the sniper could get her, he could get any of them. A dozen minds were imagining what their houses looked like from distant vantage points, and if anyone had already done similar assassination advance planning research at the distant edges of their lives.
The president said softly “Ten million? Ten million potential sniper rifles?”
“Or more” replied the FBI director.
“So Senator Randolph’s assassination was not some incredible feat by an Olympic level target shooter or a trained military sniper, it was just an ordinary shot by some yahoo with a… junk rifle?”
“I’d say it was better than ordinary, but basically, yes, I’d agree with that assessment Mr. President.”
“Then all of our emphasis on the semi-automatic assault rifles has been misplaced? We’re in greater danger from… ordinary hunting rifles?”
“So it would appear sir, I’m sorry to say.”
“And Senator Randolph had a standard Secret Service detail for her personal protection? And they were unable to prevent this?”
“That would appear to be correct.”
“Then we’re going to have to totally revamp how we provide security for the senior leadership ASAP!”
The FBI Director paused, considering his words carefully. “Mr. President, I would say that it would be just about impossible to put a five or six hundred yard moving security perimeter around all of the national leadership. Or even one hundred yards for that matter. We just don’t have anything like that amount of trained manpower, you know what’s involved in your own protection…extending that kind of protection to the Senate, to the Senior Executive Service…to hundreds of key personnel… it’s just not possible.”
Gets my vote for quote of the day!
One could hope but we all know it won't happen. He will use fraud to maintain his position for the rest of his life, and he will be surrounded by armed bodyguards every minute. While telling everyone that he is a "man of the people".
... that the police get to say what the rest of the section means.
"Subject only to the police power, the right of the individual citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Interesting language, no?
You give him and most of the other gun grabbers too much credit. They all know that their solutions will not work, have never worked anywhere else for that matter. Their prime, and in most cases only "motivation" is to keep themselves in power. They could care less about a bunch of (minority) gang bangers offing each other. Whatever his motivatioin, his tactic is to disarm the populace in general. As far as special punishment for "use" of a gun in a "felony", that too is bovine excrement. Let the violent crime itself have the sure and severe punishment, for too many times the "felony" is completely non-violent and the "use" consists of having a gun somewhere within 20 yards, loaded or not, visible or not. It's just another way to demonize guns and gun owners.
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