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Illinois Officials Spar Over Order to Make List of Gun Owners Public
In a showdown over the privacy rights of gun owners, the Illinois State Police are refusing to release a list identifying all firearm permit holders in the state after Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan determined that the information “must” be made public.
The dispute, which soon could come before a judge, has been building since last fall when a reporter for The Associated Press made a Freedom of Information Act request to the police for the names of cardholders as well as information about the weapons each permit holder is authorized to carry.
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Nanny State, People, Politics | tree hugging sister | 
March 2, 2011 9:42 pm
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Authorized to carry?
There is NO authorization to carry in Illinois! A FOID card allows the holder to purchase firearms and ammunition ONLY.
No surprise that Lisa Madigan wants to “out” gun owners. She’d love to make gun owners targets of break-ins and home invasions and use such things to fuel total gun bans.
Horrid evil woman, she is.
The not so funny thing, Guns, is that if I was a burglar I would use the list to determine who didn’t have a gun, the better to target them. Sort of like all of the signs up here that proudly proclaim “This establishment bans all guns.”
Reality translation for the left: “We’re all unarmed. Gosh we hope you don’t rob us.”
God, I’m glad I moved out of Illinois so many years ago.
And I wonder if that FOID is still the same joke it used to be. Back when, you filled out the application, and sent $5 and a photo to Springfield, and waited for the card to come back.
A dealer told me at the time that he’d seen cards issued for Al Capone, or cards that had the photograph of a puppy on it.
Just checked….
Yep, pretty much the same joke, although I see that they want your driver’s license number or “state ID number” (WTF?) now.
I presume that they actually cross check the information, although I’ve always seen this as a flippin’ joke. I first heard about privately organized militias while living in Illinois in 1985 — they liked to steal communications equipment from the Guard.
Not weapons, though, that was the specialty of the gangs. We lost a weapon a month, on the average, back when.
“God, I’m glad I moved out of Illinois so many years ago.”
Hopefully I’ll be Wisconsin bound when my lease is up this year.
That’s why the government shouldn’t be collecting such info in the first place.
What about “shall not be infringed” don’t they understand?
I would like to see a bunch of intrusive FOIAs filed on Madigan. And everyone else in the Illinois government.
(I have relatives in Illinois. Relatives who own guns. I suspect they’re pretty POd about this current intrusion.)
Bingster: That concept of negative rights is just too,well, negative for them. That’s why they adopt the mind over matter approach-they don’t mind that yours don’t matter.
My FOID only serves to show I am legal to purchase/possess firearms; it does not let them know what I already possessed when I moved to IL. Heck, even I forget what I have sometimes. Another reason the CAG and I are trying to get out of here. We were also informed that both of us needed the cards, as if I was the only one with a card and I kicked the bucket (unlikely as it sounds), the sheriffs office would be visiting the house before I was cold to collect whatever firearms were in the house, Nice, huh?
That’s why I don’t own any firearms (that anyone can prove).
Never mind that big black safe in the corner. It’s just holding my important papers.