This makes no sense whatsoever, but then most goobermint doesn’t<\/p>\n
State: \u2018Government has no authority’ to impose penalties for not registering banned guns<\/a> (The Center Square) \u2013 The state of Illinois says “government has no authority” to impose criminal penalties for those not registering banned firearms.<\/p>\n Illinois State Police have updated the gun ban registration numbers to include those who registered after the Jan. 1 deadline. On top of the 29,357 individuals who registered before the deadline, 5,867 have registered since. The total of those registering before and after the deadline of 35,224 is 1.46% of the state’s more than 2.4 million Firearm Owners ID card holders.<\/p>\n Also updated is a list of how many individuals registered banned items per county. Cook County had the highest numbers of those registering at 6,364. Pope County had the fewest at five.<\/p>\n Lawsuits against the gun ban and registry continue in state and federal court.<\/p>\n In their response to a Fifth Amendment challenge to the state\u2019s gun ban and registry in the Southern District of Illinois federal court, attorneys for the state say the right against self-incrimination isn\u2019t violated by the registry.<\/p>\n The state\u2019s lawyers argue the registration is a \u201cvoluntary benefit that exempts owners of certain\u201d firearms from \u201cotherwise applicable criminal penalties.\u201d They also argue the \u201cgovernment has no authority to impose\u201d penalties on those that don\u2019t register and the idea someone would be prosecuted for what they file is \u201cnot real.\u201d<\/p>\n “[T]he fanciful chain of events they have dreamed up has no serious chance of coming to fruition,” the filing said.<\/p>\n The filing is part of the ongoing litigation that plaintiffs’ attorney Thomas Maag predicts will get to the merits of the issues in the months ahead.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was clear from what [Judge Stephen McGlynn] said that he said that the lawyers should not plan on missing any breaks over the summer,\u201d Maag told The Center Square. \u201cThat the judge wants to have a trial on the merits before June.”<\/p>\n Separately in state court last week, an Effingham County judge denied attorney Thomas DeVore\u2019s attempt to reinstate his gun ban challenges that were vacated last year after the Illinois Supreme Court sided with the state in the case brought by state Rep. Dan Caulkins, R-Decatur.<\/p>\n DeVore said he\u2019s taken the case to the appellate court.<\/p>\n \u201cThe judge just kicked the can down the road, he didn\u2019t stop this case,\u201d DeVore told The Center Square. \u201cAnd the Illinois Supreme Court in their ruling in Caulkins did one good thing, is they gave me a roadmap on how I can win the arguments on equal protection.\u201d<\/p>\n DeVore contends the state saying exempt classes of people, like active duty and retired police, security and prison guards, have specialized training is a \u201clegal fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf you break them down, you will find that almost none of them have a duty to protect the public order and the training,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n All preliminary attempts in state and federal court at blocking the law from being implemented have not resulted in the law being overturned. It\u2019s expected the issue will be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This makes no sense whatsoever, but then most goobermint doesn’t State: \u2018Government has no authority’ to impose penalties for not registering banned guns Data shows 5,900 registered banned guns in Illinois after Jan. 1 (The Center Square) \u2013 The state of Illinois says “government has no authority” to impose criminal penalties for those not registering … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-goobermint","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99544,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99533\/revisions\/99544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nData shows 5,900 registered banned guns in Illinois after Jan. 1<\/p>\n