Illinois at its finest

[Tweety Bird]

Illinois AG wants to disclose the names of all gun owners in her state.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-gunowners-disclos,0,5686959.story

[weirjf]

Go for it. Then the criminals know the safe homes to rob and maybe those people will change their minds.

[Scanker19]

This makes me want to buy a gun from a member here, just to bug them.

[Irving]

"You potentially make us targets," Vandermyde said. "Or, on the inverse, you could say, 'These are the homes that don't have FOID cards so it's likely they don't have guns, so therefore they make better targets.'"

The state police made the same argument, but the attorney general dismissed it as "speculative and conclusory."

Funny demanding to know the names of people who have not committed any sort of crime isn't some how speculative and conclusory.

EDIT: Is "Conclusory" even a word? Troubleco?

[weirjf]

Funny demanding to know the names of people who have not committed any sort of crime isn't some how speculative and conclusory.

EDIT: Is "Conclusory" even a word? Troubleco?

con·clu·so·ry (kn-kls-r)
adj. 1. Conclusive.
2. Law Convincing, but not so much so that contradiction is impossible; not justified or supported by all the facts:

[TFOGGER]

Fair's fair: Post the home addresses, phone numbers, and social security numbers of state legislators, along with their schedules.

THIS is the largest argument against any kind of registration for guns or their owners; some jackhole politician will decide that the rights of the peeeeple to "know" is more important than our right to privacy or security.

[trlcavscout]

Go for it. Then the criminals know the safe homes to rob and maybe those people will change their minds.

I agree!

[bryjcom]

At least once a week I am reminded of why I moved from that hell hole of a state.

To be fair the only reason the state sucks is because of the chicago metro area. Chicago should just apply for statehood and leave central and southern IL alone.

[Irving]

Fair's fair: Post the home addresses, phone numbers, and social security numbers of state legislators, along with their schedules.

THIS is the largest argument against any kind of registration for guns or their owners; some jackhole politician will decide that the rights of the peeeeple to "know" is more important than our right to privacy or security.

More realistically, any elected officials should have every year of taxes they've ever paid,every loan, basically their entire credit history as public record. Those that they govern, have a direct interest in knowing how well those elected officials handle their own personal finances.

[DFBrews]

So after having to jump thru the hoops to get a "card" that says your can use your 2A rights. You now have to worry about a press organisation flexing their 1A rights with lawsuits and other means to get a list of firearm owners. Which Amendment is the hot one these days 1A. I sadly see it happening