Confiscation of Registered Guns Begins in Illinois
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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. |
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 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. 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.
Source: Illinois State
Rifle Association |