- 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.
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- 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...
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- 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.
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- So...what does this all mean?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- More later as this story develops. http://www.isra.org/nsnews.htm
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