We are supposed to rest assured that when you'll want a licensing requirement on gun owners that it wont ever be used to grab peoples guns.Uh, licensing (or, more practically, registration) should be used PRECISELY to grab the guns of people like this -- people who are DISQUALFIED FROM POSSESSING THEM.
What do you imagine it's for???
Lawdy bleedin jayzus. You make less sense by the day.
http://www.pioneerlocal.com/lakeforest/news/950629,lf-guns-051508-s1.articleState police were tipped off to the cache of weapons when they learned that someone who lived in the home had a revoked Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card, Lake Forest Police Chief Joe Buerger said.
"They also had information that a person who lived there still had guns in the house," Buerger said.
... Lake Forest police have arrested the suspect in the past two months on a domestic battery charge, Buerger said. That arrest led to the revocation of his FOID card, officials said.
"His FOID card was revoked by Illinois State Police. The state received information he still had many guns in house even though his FOID card was revoked. That's when they started the investigation," Buerger said.
This appears to be the LAW. Get arrested on a "domestic battery charge", LOSE YOUR FIREARMS LICENCE. Apparently it isn't taken particularly seriously, since two months later he still had quite an arsenal of firearms.
But it's THE LAW. And he broke it.
http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/2160064.php?A north suburban man charged with illegally possessing 85 weapons -- including at least one .50-caliber machine gun -- is a collector who acquired the firearms legally, his attorney said Friday.
... His attorney contended Stevens was a gun enthusiast who had an interest in historic firearms, which he had obtained legally when he had a valid FOID card.
... Prosecutor Kristen Robinson said the weapons seized included a military-issue .50-caliber machine gun capable of being mounted on a vehicle, a .50-caliber sniper rifle, an Uzi submachine gun, a .30-caliber rifle, as well as 50,000 rounds of ammunition -- some of it capable of cutting through steel armor.
... Stevens' FOID card was revoked for reasons of his mental health, Robinson said, without elaborating.
You know NOTHING about this man. You know NOTHING about the circumstances in which he was arrested or his licence revoked. All you do know is that he BROKE THE LAW. You apparently don't even know what facts of the case ARE publicly available.
And yet here you are, pissing and moaning about this poor victim of the nanny state run amuck.
Does no one here ever tire of making him/herself look like a complete idiot? a defender of law-breakers? you know, CRIMINALS?
Oh, btw. Doesn't anyone feel kinda silly defending one of those
élite rich people who seems to be getting treated like any old pleb here?