Illinois - Ground Zero for Pinheads

common sense legislation from people who care

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing statewide legislation to require handgun owners to register their weapons.

And people comment after the story....

"And their other gun control laws are working so well. "common sense legislation"???  The state is over 100 Billion in debt and this is what he wants to focus on?  Personally I feel the FOID Card is Illegal and a violation of the 2nd Amendment.  You can't even buy shotgun shells for to shoot clay birds without a FOID card.....  yep that makes us all safer.  This is great.  It'll drive even more down state Democrats away from the party."

I am a former Illinois resident and former Illinois F.O.ID. (firearm owner's identification) card holder but I'm now an out-of-stater so when I hunt in Illinois, it's with the state issued and required non-resident hunting license.  OK - Kenny Bing true-life story from this past pheasant season.  I go into the Carlyle, IL Wal-Mart to pick up a case of steel shot shells for pheasant hunting with Bing the Wonderdog.  Get to the check out counter and there is an elderly woman that looks like my Grandma Bing working the register.  She looks at the shells and says "Gotta have a F.O.ID. card for these."  I reply "I'm a Missouri resident and here's my non-resident hunting license."  She replies, "No honey, I have to get a cashier that has a F.O.ID. card to ring these up for you.  It's not you, sweetheart, it's me - I don't have a F.O.ID. card so I can't ring these up for you."

I guess it was some of that good, good, good “common sense legislation” that got that added to the gun laws in Illinois.  Long live the pinheads.