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From the recent ISRA Bulletin...................
"The one bill we will be looking at is SB 1966. This bill, if passed, would require the FOID card holder to be fingerprinted, pay for their own background check and firearm transfers through an FFL. This could cost the FOID card holder between $200 and $300, or even more, depending on what happens during your background check. The purpose of SB 1966 is to limit a person’s fundamental Second Amendment right by simply pricing people out of the market to acquire a FOID card, therefore pricing them out of their Second Amendment rights. There are those in the General Assembly that do not seem to understand that fundamental rights belong to us all. The purpose of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights is to inform legislators and public officials to keep their hands off of those rights. That is why the term “God given unalienable rights” is used. There are many in government at all levels that think their election or appointment to the office makes them God. Therein lies the problem."
Thanks for the heads up Woods. Sick and tired of the gun grabbing bastards. Local politicians are trying to close down any outdoor ranges including our fish n hint club. Never ending fight to stop these a-holes from bothering hard working responsible firearm carrying folks. They should spend more time working on issurs like mental sickness and opioid problems. Went online in Sept to renew my FOID card and am still waiting. Used to be able to renew whenever you wanted. Not any more.
Took a while but yesterday learned I don't even have to take classes to carry in Indiana. Do have to sign up with the state for $150 and get fingerprinted but that's it. I let my Illinois CC license expire, but I doubt I'd use it anyway since I traded in all my Chicago & Milwaukee facilities for Iowa & Minnesota. Glad I don't have to deal with this politics any more. I agree FOID's are unconstitutional in the first place.
Got to love Illinois if they are not trying to tax us they are trying to take the guns away in some form or manner or in this case BOTH! So far this year in Cook county where its illegal to purchase a gun and they have the most strict gun laws in the US (other than DC).
2019 Chicago stats to date as of 10-19-19:
shot and wounded - 1,857
Killed - 423
90% of those stats are Black on Black - yet you never ever hear of these stats, and nothing has been done nor will be done. The only solution is to make it more difficult for law abiding downstate rural citizens to buy and own guns. I'm fairly confident in saying these fellows don't possess FOID cards.
Guarantee less than 1% of those "thugs" have a valid FOID card and/or a hunting license. Shitheads will always have guns so self respecting honest citizens should also be able to own guns.
You can buy a gun legally in Crook county. They add a 25 dollar tax to pay the hospital costs for the miscreants We call it the gangbanger tax.
OK thanks Highlife I stand corrected. In the 4 hours since I posted this - the "shot and wounded" total has increased by 4 to 1,861...but who's counting.
You can keep track by looking at the website Heyjackass.
Well it's gonna be really nice out this weekend expected high numbers lol
Funny that they want the card holder to pay for finger prints lol my police station does it for free, which most do for their residents. Just shows you that government wants it to be a pain in the ass for the legal citizen, treat us like criminals, sad.
In theory, it should unconstitutional to charge ANY legal American any kind of fee to exercise an inalienable right. Can you imagine if they charged a fee to vote?
But that said, the $10 we now pay for it, while NOT right, is tolerable because it basically pays the processing costs. The problem with it though is that if they can charge us $10, then why not $100? Or $1000? Or $10,000? If they CAN, then they WILL, because we all know that it's not about "safety" as much as it's about being a deterrent to "We the people" owning firearms.
I'm as law abiding a citizen as one can expect, and have never been arrested or charged with anything more than a speeding ticket. But if they make the cost of a FOID card out of my reach, then they will then have turned me into an outlaw.
"When guns are outlawed, then only the GOVERNMENT will have guns."
Scary stuff right there!!!!
Woodguy.....guess we need to teach those shitheads how to shoot straight. Maybe then they will rid our streets of many more punks who do not deserve to breath out air!
WW that’s exactly how they will do it, never a door to door confiscation. It will be a law that you have to “certify” each gun in your possession and pay a yearly tax on each one. Most wont be able to afford it or go to the hassle of certifying. They will just make you a criminal. They will do the same thing with ammo - tax it to the point of not being able to afford it.
BTW as of 5:30am the shot/wounded total has increased to - 1877.
woodguy: I couldn't agree more. Drip.....drip....drip.....
Good morning it's another beautiful day in the hood! Come on now let's get those numbers up show some Chitown pride ;)