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Police Officers Warned About Possible Gun sweeps
Josey1
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Chicago Police Officers Warned About Possible Gun Sweeps
To: State Desk
Contact: Richard Pearson of the Illinois State Rifle Association,
815-635-3198; Web Site: http://www.isra.org
CHICAGO, April 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released
today by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA):
The ISRA is warning employees of the Chicago Police Department
(CPD) that the department's Chicago Anti-Gun Enforcement (CAGE)
unit may soon swoop down on their homes.
The warning comes after the release of CPD Notice 02-18, which
directs CPD employees to dispose of many of their personally owned
firearms by May 1, 2002 or face the consequences.
Firearms subject to the disposal order include a previously
published list of so-called "assault weapons" as well as many of
the rifles typically used to hunt deer and other game in the state.
Issuance of CPD Notice 02-18 comes in the midst of a stepped-up
effort by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to impose his personal gun
control plan on a statewide basis. Earlier this year, Daley
blasted the Illinois General Assembly for twice rejecting his
extremist gun control package - pledging to sidestep the
legislature by using his local political muscle to institute the
package in one village at a time. Daley's first attempt at doing
so failed miserably on April 15th when the Des Plaines (IL) City
Council rejected a gun control ordinance introduced by Daley ally
Alderman Don Smith by a 7-1 margin.
The approaching May 1 gun disposal deadline is especially
ominous in light of questionable tactics being employed by the CAGE
unit. The unit was formed specifically to support Mayor Daley's
efforts to run suburban gun shops out of business and to create an
illegal registration database of law-abiding Illinois gun owners.
After several months of keeping tabs on the CAGE unit, the ISRA
has come into information on tactics that should send a shiver down
the spine of any freedom-loving American. Among such tactics are
attempts to entrap gun shop clerks into making illegal gun sales;
inspecting and copying gun shop sales records for households where
more than one person holds an Illinois FOID card and; visiting the
homes of law-abiding gun owners and demanding to inventory their
firearm collections without benefit of a court order.
In light of the disposal order, Chicago police officers should
be especially concerned about the CAGE unit's tactics. The ISRA is
aware of the case of a Cook County Sheriff's officer who was
questioned by the CAGE unit about a used gun he legally transferred
to a gun shop more than ten years ago. Although the officer made
every attempt to comply with the CAGE unit's inquiry, the
investigations team threatened the officer with the loss of his job
and pension. Despite having complied fully with the CAGE team, he
found himself on suspension.
The ISRA suspects strongly that the CAGE unit has been gathering
information on the gun buying habits of fellow CPD officers and
that, after May 1, officers who may have owned any of the firearms
on the disposal list should expect to undergo questioning by the
CAGE unit.
"My advice to any CPD officer who has ever owned a gun on the
disposal list is to get a lawyer - a good one," commented ISRA
president Richard Pearson. "You may show up for roll call later
this week just to find yourself on indefinite suspension. Or, you
may get a frantic phone call from your wife or kids telling you
that there are a half dozen big burly guys wanting to come in and
look at your gun collection. In any case, Mayor Daley plans to
make you pay for not sharing his views on gun control. I wish you
luck, you're going to need it."
The ISRA is the state's leading advocate of safe, lawful and
responsible firearms ownership. For nearly a century, the ISRA has
represented the interests of over 1.5 million law-abiding Illinois
gun owners.
http://www.usnewswire.com
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/U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/
04/29 09:33
Copyright 2002, U.S. Newswire
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
To: State Desk
Contact: Richard Pearson of the Illinois State Rifle Association,
815-635-3198; Web Site: http://www.isra.org
CHICAGO, April 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released
today by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA):
The ISRA is warning employees of the Chicago Police Department
(CPD) that the department's Chicago Anti-Gun Enforcement (CAGE)
unit may soon swoop down on their homes.
The warning comes after the release of CPD Notice 02-18, which
directs CPD employees to dispose of many of their personally owned
firearms by May 1, 2002 or face the consequences.
Firearms subject to the disposal order include a previously
published list of so-called "assault weapons" as well as many of
the rifles typically used to hunt deer and other game in the state.
Issuance of CPD Notice 02-18 comes in the midst of a stepped-up
effort by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to impose his personal gun
control plan on a statewide basis. Earlier this year, Daley
blasted the Illinois General Assembly for twice rejecting his
extremist gun control package - pledging to sidestep the
legislature by using his local political muscle to institute the
package in one village at a time. Daley's first attempt at doing
so failed miserably on April 15th when the Des Plaines (IL) City
Council rejected a gun control ordinance introduced by Daley ally
Alderman Don Smith by a 7-1 margin.
The approaching May 1 gun disposal deadline is especially
ominous in light of questionable tactics being employed by the CAGE
unit. The unit was formed specifically to support Mayor Daley's
efforts to run suburban gun shops out of business and to create an
illegal registration database of law-abiding Illinois gun owners.
After several months of keeping tabs on the CAGE unit, the ISRA
has come into information on tactics that should send a shiver down
the spine of any freedom-loving American. Among such tactics are
attempts to entrap gun shop clerks into making illegal gun sales;
inspecting and copying gun shop sales records for households where
more than one person holds an Illinois FOID card and; visiting the
homes of law-abiding gun owners and demanding to inventory their
firearm collections without benefit of a court order.
In light of the disposal order, Chicago police officers should
be especially concerned about the CAGE unit's tactics. The ISRA is
aware of the case of a Cook County Sheriff's officer who was
questioned by the CAGE unit about a used gun he legally transferred
to a gun shop more than ten years ago. Although the officer made
every attempt to comply with the CAGE unit's inquiry, the
investigations team threatened the officer with the loss of his job
and pension. Despite having complied fully with the CAGE team, he
found himself on suspension.
The ISRA suspects strongly that the CAGE unit has been gathering
information on the gun buying habits of fellow CPD officers and
that, after May 1, officers who may have owned any of the firearms
on the disposal list should expect to undergo questioning by the
CAGE unit.
"My advice to any CPD officer who has ever owned a gun on the
disposal list is to get a lawyer - a good one," commented ISRA
president Richard Pearson. "You may show up for roll call later
this week just to find yourself on indefinite suspension. Or, you
may get a frantic phone call from your wife or kids telling you
that there are a half dozen big burly guys wanting to come in and
look at your gun collection. In any case, Mayor Daley plans to
make you pay for not sharing his views on gun control. I wish you
luck, you're going to need it."
The ISRA is the state's leading advocate of safe, lawful and
responsible firearms ownership. For nearly a century, the ISRA has
represented the interests of over 1.5 million law-abiding Illinois
gun owners.
http://www.usnewswire.com
-0-
/U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/
04/29 09:33
Copyright 2002, U.S. Newswire
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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