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risto2351

risto2351

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Found this today in an email from one of our NWTF Chapter president. Straight from the paper.
Gonna be a long four years.


llinois Bill Forces Firearm Owners to Get $1 Million Insurance Policy

Legislation Increases Costs to Law Abiding Residents
2/11/09



A new Illinois bill represents another assault on the rights of law-abiding firearm owners in the state by forcing them to maintain a $1 million liability insurance policy or risk losing the right to own a firearm.

Most individuals in Illinois, with some exceptions, must obtain a “Firearm Owner’s Identification Card” to legally own a firearm. House Bill 687, sponsored by Representative Kenneth Dunkin (D- Chicago), would force all of those individuals to obtain a $1 million liability insurance policy. This policy would cover any damages that take place from the use of a firearm owned by the individual.

The bill also authorizes the Department of the State Police to revoke and seize the identification card from any firearm owner that does not supply proof of the liability coverage to the Department.

Finally, not only will HB 687 increase the cost of lawfully purchasing a firearm, language in the bill puts owners at risk of liability should their firearm be lost or stolen. The bill states that a person shall be considered an owner until they report any stolen or lost firearms to their local police or sheriff’s department. This means that an owner could be held liable if a firearm is stolen or lost and used prior to their knowledge.

“This is terrible legislation that will harm Illinois’ sportsmen community. Not only will the bill make it cost prohibitive for many to own firearms, it also runs the risk of criminalizing innocent owners,” stated U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance senior vice president, Rick Story.
 
Wow... there is going to be some crazy battles ahead for gun owners.

The sportman of Illinois had better be contacting their representatives and getting a stop put to that prospective legislation.
 
I got this one in an email this morning. Scary stuff people.

> Here they come, ready or not. Feel the water getting warmer?
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> Are you ready for the House Bill titled 'HR 45, Blair Holt Licensing and Record Act of 2009'. It will make it illegal to own a firearm unless it is registered with the database in Washington D.C. As a gun owner you will have to be finger printed, you will be required to provide your DL#, SS#, you must maintain a valid address at all times, submit to mental and physical health
> records being put on file, you will also be required to file any address changes and any ownership changes even if a private sale. Each update will cost $25 and if you fail to comply you will lose your right to own firearms. This bill and its language mirror almost completely one defeated last year in the House of Representatives by soon to be Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Will we the citizenry be as lucky this time?
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> Pass this on to everyone who believes in strict Constitutionalism and remember that laws only apply to those who obey them. Criminals by definition and nature do not abide by laws. New laws and restrictions only apply to the law abiding citizen and are not written with the criminal in mind. With guns, it is not about having laws on the books to prosecute individuals, it is about taking
> guns away from the people so that no one has them in the first place. One last item to note, when assuming power and creating a facist state, Hitler was a proponent of strong gun laws because a disarmed populace was much easier to control than an armed one. The kings of old also outlawed weapons of any kind in any region that they conquered to quell the ability of the citizens to uprise against them.
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> The Founding Fathers of this nation understood all of the above and because of this they included the second amendment in the constitution. In fact, they knew that at some point in every society's life span that the need for the population to arise came about. To this end they made the right to keep and bear arms against a tyrannical state an absolute right that could not be revoked.
> They did this because the first thing tyrants and despots do is to remove a population's right to defend themselves When this is done, the tyrants have no problem with the destruction of society as we know it.
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> Send this on to all true patriots! Protect your Second Amendment!
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> The following is a summary of the bill as provided by the Congressional Research Service. If you read the whole bill, you'll find it will effectively preclude the ownership of ANY firearms by law-abiding people unless licensed by the Attorney General. How long do you think THAT would take??
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> Congressional Research Service Summary
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> The following summary was written by the Congressional Research Service, a well-respected nonpartisan arm of the Library of Congress. GovTrack did not write and has no control over these summaries.
> 1/6/2009--Introduced.
> Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit a person from possessing a firearm unless that person has been issued a firearm license under this Act or a state system certified under this Act and such license has not been invalidated or revoked. Prescribes license application, issuance, and renewal requirements.
> Prohibits transferring or receiving a qualifying firearm unless the recipient presents a valid firearms license, the license is verified, and the dealer records a tracking authorization number. Prescribes firearms transfer reporting and record keeping requirements. Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a federal record of sale system.
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> Prohibits: (1) transferring a firearm to any person other than a licensee, unless the transfer is processed through a licensed dealer in accordance with national instant criminal background check system requirements, with exceptions;
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> (2) a licensed manufacturer or dealer from failing to comply with reporting and record keeping requirements of this Act;
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> (3) failing to report the loss or theft of the firearm to the Attorney General within 72 hours;
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> (4) failing to report to the Attorney General an address change within 60 days; or
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> (5) keeping a loaded firearm, or an unloaded firearm and ammunition for the firearm, knowingly or recklessly disregarding the risk that a child is capable of gaining access, if a child uses the firearm and causes death or serious bodily injury.
> Prescribes criminal penalties for violations of firearms provisions covered by this Act.
> Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish and maintain a firearm injury information clearinghouse; (2) conduct continuing studies and investigations of firearm-related deaths and injuries; and (3) collect and maintain current production and sales figures of each licensed manufacturer. Authorizes the Attorney General to certify state firearm licensing or record of sale systems.
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> Pleased be advised and pass this along: House Bill HR 45, Blair Holt Licensing and Record Act of 2009
> Will, in my opinion, be the first of 2 or 3 steps toward confiscation of privately owned firearms.
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> You can follow the sequence as it already happened in Canada and the UK. First the government needs to register the guns so they will know where to find them.
 
There's bigger fish to fry in our nation at this time and these idiots are wasting our tax dollars coming up with this hogwash. This crap burns me up. I know there are alot of morons out there, it's just to bad that a good lot of them are goverment officials.
 
they can`t even account for the money they used on the housing bail-out. what they what is more money, and control !. bottom line bunch of bullsh.......
 
The felons will always have a gun, but we cant???? Bulls----, try and take them away from us , and our first ammendment rights, see where that gets um!!
 
As a former Illinois resident, the gun laws there have been very extreme for quite some time. Mostly from dirty Chicago politics. I still get updates from a buddy back there, which I do not foward to many because it is "business as usual" over there and really gets me upset if I think about it too much. Look around in current media items and most Illinois politicians have made quite the name for themselves, I let you figure that out on your own. What is even more screwed up is the fact that the state is run by these type of folks from Chicago and over 3/4 of the state don't want anything to do with them. The biggest population of the state is in Chicago.
 
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