Chicago Police requiring all officers to register all firearms, even their off duty

[AlphaKoncepts]

Anyone else hear the news that the Chicago Police Department is requiring their officers to register all of their personal firearms?

The other day, the Chicago Police Department issued an order to all sworn department members stating "Sworn members will register all duty and nonduty firearms with the Department" ( http://directives.chicagopolice.org/...8b.pdf?hl=true ) Section II H This means to me, that as a condition of employment, all police officers must register all firearms with the city. Mind you, any duty related handguns have been registered in the past, but now it's all of their firearms.



I am willing to bet 98% of the officers are transferring ownership of their firearms to their spouse and/or next of kin right now.

[Xsail]

I bet they are! Thank God we have this clause in our Constitution: "No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident
of the right to keep and bear arms." I'm in a fight right now over the "city" putting firearm restrictions on city employees in violation of our Constitution....O.L.

[AlphaKoncepts]

Like Feinstein said "Just pass it and let the courts decide if it is constitutional."

[jwreck]

Oh no!!! How terrible! How dare they treat police officers like regular everyday citizens!!

[Voodoo_Man]

Lots of big city departments require you to write down what firearms you own, so the department knows.

It is, however, unenforceable.

[AlphaKoncepts]

Lots of big city departments require you to write down what firearms you own, so the department knows.

It is, however, unenforceable.

What possible purpose can it serve for the department to know what the officers keep at home in their safes?

[AlphaKoncepts]

Oh no!!! How terrible! How dare they treat police officers like regular everyday citizens!!

The citizen registry was abolished earlier this year, so as of right now it's only police officers needing to register.

[Dmaynor]

I'm happy to see the gander getting what the goose does. You want to get rid of stupid gun control laws...force cops to follow them.

[thebarracuda]

Living only 4hrs south of the great sucking void that is Chicago, this seems like just another experiment to see how much tyranny will be tolerated. This is how it works in IL; if you can't impose your will on the whole population, pick a group, any group, separate it from the rest of the state's citizens, and start imposing your will. If this group chooses to scream and fight, back off slightly until resistance lessens or court order strikes it down. If your new tyrannical dream is somehow well received, increase regulations and requirements until amount of screaming and fighting or court order forces a slight retreat. Move on to the next group. And so on... Its conditioning the populace one small group at a time. Much easier and more effective. And always done under cover of "safety" or "it could be used for education."

[AlphaKoncepts]

Living only 4hrs south of the great sucking void that is Chicago, this seems like just another experiment to see how much tyranny will be tolerated. This is how it works in IL; if you can't impose your will on the whole population, pick a group, any group, separate it from the rest of the state's citizens, and start imposing your will. If this group chooses to scream and fight, back off slightly until resistance lessens or court order strikes it down. If your new tyrannical dream is somehow well received, increase regulations and requirements until amount of screaming and fighting or court order forces a slight retreat. Move on to the next group. And so on... Its conditioning the populace one small group at a time. Much easier and more effective. And always done under cover of "safety" or "it could be used for education."

MY brain patterns were very much along these same lines. In other words I am thinking what you are thinking.