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| Chicago Suburb Bans ‘Assault Weapons' – Begins Confiscation, Fines For Gun Owners |
| 2018-04-05 |
| [Daily Caller] A city in Illinois is making a gun control activists’ dreams come true. The Village Board of Trustees in Deerfield, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, approved an ordinance to ban "assault weapons" and large capacity magazines, Cleveland 19 News reports. Violators will face a hefty fine. If the owner of an assault weapon lives in the town does not voluntarily turn over their banned weapon, he will be fined $1,000 a day until the weapon is confiscated. According to Cleveland 19 News, the term "assault rifle" applies to "Semiautomatic rifles with a fixed magazine and a capacity to hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition are banned. Shotguns that have revolving chambers are also outlawed." In a press release sent out by the city, the mayor cites the Parkland, Fla. high school shooting as the motivator for the ordinance: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 Confiscation would throw the door wide open to tyranny by government And make the lovely community of Deerfield a target for the nice area folks 'liberating' other people's stuff. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2018-04-05 15:43 |
| #9 Confiscation is gun control at the extreme. The ultimate dream of the gun grabbers in confiscation. Confiscation would throw the door wide open to tyranny by government. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-04-05 11:49 |
| #8 Per Wiki - "This is despite an Illinois State Preemption on any further municipal firearms restrictions, and the fact that amendments to city ordinances have to pass said amendments as separate ordinances." |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2018-04-05 10:32 |
| #7 Guess where the next surge of Chitown crime is gonna be? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-04-05 10:17 |
| #6 They are commies, Lone Ranger. Nothing more or less. This is a political act, designed to deprive US citizens of their natural rights. I would suggest seizure of all involved and their incarceration in a Federal facility until the courts |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2018-04-05 09:04 |
| #5 I’m not sure I would want to be the guy doing the confiscating. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2018-04-05 08:53 |
| #4 I'd expect people with relatives in neighboring states will let their relatives "store" their guns for them. If I ran a gun shop in a neighboring state, I'd get a firearms lawyer on board and buy up all the black rifles I could get from people who can't move away from Deerfield. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-04-05 08:50 |
| #3 Oh, that will work (he said with great sarcasm)! For a change, maybe they try requiring everyone to start packing. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-04-05 08:24 |
| #2 You can shut this crap down in a minute by asking said trustees to appear before a federal grand jury looking into civil rights violations. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-04-05 08:02 |
| #1 What happened to "... shall not be infringed..."? |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2018-04-05 03:08 |