State: ‘Government has no authority’ to impose penalties for not registering banned guns – Center Square

In their response to a Fifth Amendment challenge to the state’s gun ban and registry in the Southern District of Illinois federal court, the state’s lawyers argue the registration is a “voluntary benefit that exempts owners of certain” firearms from “otherwise applicable criminal penalties.”
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Freddy
2 years ago

Side note. This is some new info on a mass shooting.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/multiple-people-found-shot-dead-212900773.html

debtsor
2 years ago

They can’t punishing you for failing to register your gun is quite the lawyerly position, because now it is illegal to own the gun.

Frank Miller
2 years ago
Reply to  debtsor

Illinois State police are already refusing to enforce the law(Act). Pritzker responds by saying, “You will do your job, or you won’t have a job.” Trying to hire illegal aliens for police is not working either, with State police stating almost all of them will fail a background check. Flailing and desperate.

debtsor
2 years ago
Reply to  Frank Miller

The ISP might not enforce the Act but my local prosecutor in Cook and/or Lake is salivating at the opportunity to do so, and that’s 6.5 million of the state’s 13 million residents.

Frank Miller
2 years ago

Judicial clowns request another 6 months to decipher the meaning of “shall not be infringed”. What a circus.

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