Partly inspired by Glenn Beck’s speech, I’m mulling over exercising my 2nd amendment right living inside the City of Chicago. I have no particular desire to actually own a gun, but you never know. If the SHTF, it would be nice to have the paperwork out of the way first.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.isp.state.il.us\/foid\/foidapp.cfm<\/p>\n
For some reason the State of Illinois has a huge backlog of applications. Generally in Illinois, the FOID card is the main requirement. It’s a $10 fee to establish your identity and let them make sure you aren’t otherwise disqualified. Illinois is the one state that still has no process at all for conceal carry. You just can’t <\/p>\n
Chicago deliberately makes it as hard as possible. After you have the state ID card, you have to show up at person at the Chicago Police Department Headquarters at Michigan at South 35th street. You pay $100, submit two passport size photos, proof that you attended 5 hours of gun safety training (~$150) that your vision is at least 20\/40, and wave a copy of the Chicago City ordinance to demonstrate you know the rules. You must have the official yellow form only available at the Chicago PD. no copies.<\/p>\n
Once you have the FOID card and the Chicago Gun Owner permit, you can now buy a gun. It must not be a scary gun. You may only have the gun loaded while inside the interior of your home and only one gun loaded. You may not have more than one loaded gun. You may not have it in the garage and certainly not on your porch or in your yard.<\/p>\n
Should you desire to transport your gun, it must be disassembled and in a carrying case. Any ammunition must be in a separate case.<\/p>\n
Upon bringing the gun into the city, you then have 5 days to register the gun, with the model, serial number and specifics of how you acquired the gun. You may not register more than one handgun every 30 days.<\/p>\n
I need to read my apartment lease again and see if it prohibits having a gun (probably so is my guess, although up until the Supreme Court decisions, it was a non issue since were no handguns in the city of Chicago, only Al Capone’s rata tata tat machine guns (Chicago people love when you say that!)<\/p>\n
Probably initially I’ll just join the NRA and take the gun safety course. If someday, a policeman or soldier stuffs a gun in my hand and says “here, use this” I might actually know what to do. I’ll be sure to read my NRA magazine by the pool – probably a great conversation starter.<\/p>\n
“So let me understand this – you went through all our hoops to prevent you from owning a gun, and you expect me to believe you don’t actually have a gun?”<\/p>\n
Yes officer, that is correct. But my neighbors don’t know that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Partly inspired by Glenn Beck’s speech, I’m mulling over exercising my 2nd amendment right living inside the City of Chicago. I have no particular desire to actually own a gun, but you never know. If the SHTF, it would be … Continue reading