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DocRay

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I think the letter explains itself well enough. I'm puzzled by the entire issue to be completely honest.

Here it is:

I LIVE in Clinton, IA. I am a resident of the state of Iowa. I am currently attending Bradley University, majoring in Electrical Engineering. To allow me to attend this school I am currently staying in an apartment in the state of Illinois. I work part-time at a store that sells firearms. It is store policy that I have a FOID card through the state of Illinois so that I can sell guns to customers. As I stated, I live in Iowa, and I enjoy hunting and fishing in Iowa. I can also hunt and fish in Illinois, but pay a little extra to, and that is fine with me. Why isn't it the same way with gun ownership? Why is my Iowa driver's license with a photo of me and all of my information not enough to get a FOID card? I am not a convict, I have a clean record. However, I cannot own a gun or get a FOID card through the state of Illinois. I've contacted the Illinois State Police, they told me there is no way that I can get a FOID card unless I surrender my residency in the state I live in (Iowa) and become a resident of Illinois. I would like to know how this is not violating my second amendment right to bear arms?
Thank you for your time,
Jacob Carlson
 
Good job!!!!

Some wright letters and some just bit** about how things are. I applaud you sir! Hope you get a "reasonable" answer. Looking forward to the response!
 
Me too, I wouldn't be so upset if it wasn't so illogical. It's not like I want to buy a gun and hide it so the state doesn't know about it. I have no problem with being upfront. I just want to know why some thug on the street just because he lives in Illinois has the right to come into my house with a gun because he has a FOID card, but I cannot legally have a gun in my house in this state without surrendering my citizenship in Iowa. It's bull****. Apparently my second amendment rights don't cross state lines with me.

The guy says, unless you are in corrections or law-enforcement there are no exceptions. Or if I'm some gangster with $5 off the street, then there is an exception. My right to be able to protect myself doesn't come with me when I leave Iowa. To hell with that.
 
DocRay:

You seem to lack understanding of the bureaucratic mind, as it works in IL.

Additionally, while I'm unfamiliar with the state of Iowa and or such "gun laws" as it might have, those in IL are definatly not "user friendly", which is to say that they display a distinct hostility toward the law abiding.

Given the demonstrated nature, and past performance of the governor, a former anti gun congressman, best of British luck re obtaining an answer to questions posed.
 
I browsed through your blog, and while I found some "crude" verbiage, I did not see anything all that "questionable", despite the fact that other people might use other wording. I guess that I'm not that easily shocked.

As to the situation with "gun laws" in IL., might I refer anyone interested, to my earlier posted coments.
 
DocRay, other than being a complete waste of time, ink and postage, that was a noble attempt at being civil and stating your case.
However, the bitter is that your letter is a living example of casting pearls before swine.

Understand that tyrants don't care about how good of a citizen you are. How clean your record is. Or anything else based on logic.

What they care about is their own power and ability to exercise control over others. Crime is merely an excuse to scare the sheeple into allowing them to impose this control.

Blagojevich is a perfect example of a power hungry fear monger.
 
I can pretty much gurantee you Rod "gun grabbin" Blagogavich is happy you can't get a FOID card.

He wants to ban guns. He's repeatedly sponsored things like assualt weapons bans in this state. Aside from that he's seriously screwed up the state in the past few years and I plan to vote him out in November.
 
What you all fail to see is that the real Governor, Richard Daly, is the real problem in Illinois. He is the reason Roddy Rod will not be re-elected, and he is the reason you will never see CCW permits in Illinois -- at least as long as he controls Chicago's 3 million votes.
 
Blagojevich is indeed happy that there are people out there who can't get FOID cards. If he had his way, we'd ban every firearm in Illinois and the papers would cover it--from his good side, mind you--for years to come.
He's going to send you a form letter at best. I'm sorry.

If it makes you feel any better, he'll be in prison soon alongside his Republican predecessor. The next guy in line, however, will be no better. In fact his opponent in next November's election is Judy Baar-Topinka, one of the biggest supporters of George Ryan, the aforementioned prison-bound Republican Governor.

It's all so very bad.
 
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