10-28-2015, 07:12 PM
(10-28-2015, 06:52 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: The village of Lyons on Tuesday took a step toward keeping guns out of the wrong hands, approving an ordinance aimed at cracking down sales to straw purchasers.
The ordinance comes about three months after anti-violence activists filed a civil rights lawsuit demanding three suburbs do more to stop guns from reaching the streets of Chicago.
Straw purchasers have clean records that allow them to get an Illinois firearm owner’s identification card. With a FOID card, they can buy guns for people banned from owning them. They sign a federal form saying they’re the “actual” buyer when they really aren’t.
"The suit claimed Chuck’s Gun Shop in Riverdale, Midwest Sporting Goods in Lyons and Shore Galleries in Lincolnwood — along with Westforth Sports in Gary, Indiana — accounted for nearly 20 percent of guns recovered at crime scenes in Chicago between 2009 and 2013."
I'm tickled this is happening.
However, this is another example of criminals circumventing existing laws.
NO . . . and I mean NO current or proposed piece of legislation will prevent this from happening again.
It's odd that Obama didn't mention this "fact" (the 20 percent recovered guns) during his speech on Monday.
He left me with the impression that Indiana was Chicago's go-to gun source, for criminals.
I say prosecute every one of the fuckers who acted as straw buyers to the fullest extent of the law . . . NO FUCKING PLEA BARGAINS!
Straw buying should be both a federal and state felony.
What disturbed me the most, in the article, was the "new" requirement that employees will be required to be background checked.
FFS!
I can't believe this isn't already a requirement.