Opinion
Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- Illinois state Senator Michael Hastings (D-19) has introduced legislation to create a gun seizure regime that would even apply to those who have simply failed to renew their firearm license. Please contact your state Senator and urge them to OPPOSE Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 44. Click the “Take Action” button to contact your state Senator.
Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 44, introduced by Sen. Hastings, would among other things, direct Illinois State Police to designate “gun liaison officers” to work with local law enforcement in order to seize Firearm Owner Identification cards (FOID) that are revoked and to confiscate all firearms and ammunition in possession of the individual. Revoked FOID cards would include those that have been allowed to expire, even if there were to be a pending application for renewal at the time. If there are multiple FOID holders in a household and one member has their FOID revoked, nothing would prevent law enforcement from simply seizing all firearms and ammunition in the house. The legislation makes no mention as to how an individual may recover their property if it’s incorrectly seized or if they re-acquire a FOID card. There are no provisions to allow those revoked FOID holders to sell or dispose of their firearms to licensed dealers or valid FOID holders.
These confiscations would be facilitated by the de facto firearm registration recently signed into law by Governor J.B. Pritzker. The creation of such gun seizure infrastructure along with registration would also facilitate future confiscations of commonly-owned firearms if arbitrarily banned or firearms from those who have their Second Amendment rights wrongly revoked without due process.
Again, please click the “Take Action” button above to contact your state Senator and urge them to OPPOSE Sen. Hasting’s SA 1 to SB 44.
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So the question is, can Mike Hastings protect his wife Katie and son Mikey with his Army training as he goes after armed Americans????? Just asking…
As usual, OCHWILL farts out phoney statistics The united States is NOT #1 in murder rates, it is 94th in the world. If you have to resort to lies to make your case, get lost.
to be expected from d-sucker goober-ment
@ Oldvet
That was a big point in Orwell’s 1984. The kids were trained to tell on their parents and the parents were vaporized when the thought police came to get them. Never heard from again. It looks like this is a program headed our way.
Ill. had a republican governor and they didn’t think he did enough so they elected a democrat and look what they got now.
Illinois didn’t do a damn thing to revoke the permit of their latest shooter when they found he was a convicted felon when he tried to get a concealed carry permit. They only go after law abiding citizens. That place is almost as bad as Kalifornia.
And here we have the net result of gun registration we have all been warned about and resisted. They will find a way to come and take your guns if they know you have any.
How is the requirement for a FOID not an infringement on the “Right to keep and bear arms” as per the 2nd Amendment. It is gun registration on a massive scale and allows authorities to seize your firearms at any time and for any reason. If that is not a violation of the 2nd Amendment, I don’t know what is.
Chicago has long been Mob and Demo-Rat ruled for years and they continue to push their rulings onto the rest of the state. Why do you think that the politicians won’t go after the criminals hard and fast, that is what is keeping them in office, they won’t do anything that would hurt that! They clam that more laws are needed, but only effects legal gun owners not the criminals. The fact is that they have no control on gun runners or criminals just proves it, solution is when caught THROW THE BOOK AT THEM and THROW THEM IN JAIL… Read more »
Come and get it. Bring your own body bags so I have something to bury you in. Otherwise, it’s going to be dirt and worms.
[The creation of such gun seizure infrastructure along with registration would also facilitate future confiscations of commonly-owned firearms if arbitrarily banned] Today the government of Illinois is passing gun laws to make the slightest violation a felony. Now the state is building the infrastructure to confiscate guns both now and in the future. Does anyone still thinks the FOID card is a good law? The FOID card is a tool of confiscation and nothing else. Prior to the passage of the FOID card law and the 1968 GCA we could buy guns through the mail without background checks or 4473… Read more »