Gun Owner Identification?

Right2Carry · Post by **Right2Carry** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:27 am

Thank goodness that I don't live in the communist state of Illinois. This is really pathetic.

Johnson faces more gun charges

LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) - Chicago Bears' defensive tackle Terry "Tank" Johnson was charged Thursday with six counts of possession of a firearm without a gun owner identification card after police said they found six guns at his Gurnee home.

The misdemeanor charge carries a potential penalty of up to a year in jail, said Jeff Pavletic, first assistant state's attorney in Lake County.

Johnson turned himself in to Gurnee police, posted bond and was released Thursday evening, Police Chief Robert Jones told a news conference.

Johnson already has a separate conviction on a gun charge.

In November 2005, he was sentenced to 18 months probation and 40 hours community service after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge stemming from an arrest in which a nightclub valet reported seeing Johnson with a handgun in his sport utility vehicle.

Johnson also was arrested last February after a confrontation outside a Chicago nightclub, but the charges were dropped after the police officer he allegedly scuffled with decided not to continue the prosecution.

Gurnee police executed a warrant and searched Johnson's home earlier Thursday, Bears coach Lovie Smith said. Johnson, the Bears' starting nose guard, didn't practice Thursday and was driven away from Halas Hall by a Bears security official.

Smith said Johnson's status for Sunday's game against Tampa Bay was up in the air and noted that any discipline against Johnson, if applicable, would come from the NFL under the personal conduct policy.

Unless specifically exempted by statute, all Illinois residents who buy or possess firearms are required by law to have a valid Firearm Owner's Identification card. They are issued by the Illinois State Police.

"It definitely is a concern because Tank has had to deal with some things like this in the past. Yes, it definitely is a concern," Smith said, adding that it was also a distraction for the playoff-bound team.

Losing Johnson would be a major blow to the Bears, who've already clinched a playoff berth by winning the NFC North. Chicago is also without Pro Bowl defensive tackle Tommie Harris, who underwent surgery Tuesday for a torn hamstring.

Johnson was a second-round draft pick of the Bears out of Washington in 2004

seamusTX · Post by **seamusTX** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:30 am

Yep. Illinois is in the bottom three or four states for RKBA.

- Jim

kauboy · Post by **kauboy** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:01 am

How exactly did they obtain the warrant? Did he do anything recently to raise suspicion? Also, are Illinois gun laws so screwed up that he can't even have them in his own private home? This is just sad.

stevie_d_64 · Post by **stevie_d_64** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:33 am

kauboy wrote:How exactly did they obtain the warrant? Did he do anything recently to raise suspicion? Also, are Illinois gun laws so screwed up that he can't even have them in his own private home? This is just sad.

No, you can have them in your home...Its just that the government needs to know that too...

If you don't tell the government you have a gun then they get mad throw a hissy fit and bring a whole world of legal hurt on you because you are an evil person and guns are dangerous and can hurt children and why do you need a gun police are there to protect you and that other countries ban guns and everybody is happy and gay.

(take a breathe)

Shut up Steve!

Roger Howard · Post by **Roger Howard** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:36 am

kauboy wrote:How exactly did they obtain the warrant? Did he do anything recently to raise suspicion? Also, are Illinois gun laws so screwed up that he can't even have them in his own private home? This is just sad.

In Illinois you have to have a FOID card to even own a gun. Word has it that they will no longer issue those cards in Cook County(Chicago)

longtooth · Post by **longtooth** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:40 am

And all the sheeple refuse to leave.

kauboy · Post by **kauboy** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:19 am

Amazing! And terribly saddening.

stevie_d_64 · Post by **stevie_d_64** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:08 pm

longtooth wrote:And all the sheeple refuse to leave.

Or...

Show them the door and a new word...

"unemployment"

fadlan12 · Post by **fadlan12** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:09 pm

Mass is the same way, you have to have a permit to own and then a permit to take it out of the house (like to the range or hunting). My Grandfather lives there.

Houston1944 · Post by **Houston1944** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:34 pm

We sit here in Texas and think we have it bad with our 30.06 and 51% signs. Go vist other forums such as the Sig Forum, 1911 Forum or others and see what the folks in Ca, MA, NJ, NY and Il are up against. I promise you it will make you appreciate what we have and should make you more determined to fight to keep what we've got.