I awoke this morning to the steady purr of the furnace holding off the near-zero chill outside. It felt a bit strange to be comforted by the sound, but I was — it meant that I could close my eyes, pull the blanket over my head and sleep as long as I wanted to.
(Or until the dogs decided otherwise.)
Later, when consciousness overtook, I thought about what I’d be doing on this clear and cold Saturday. The answer came back, “not much,” which was another odd feeling, but I decided to give that horse its head.
Coffee in-hand, I flipped through my e-mail and private messages, then scrolled social media. The only thing I read worth sharing here involves the ban on “assault weapons” in Illinois.
It was passed and signed by the state’s anti-American governor a year ago. The sale of Evil Black Rifles (and much more) was prohibited immediately. Firearms purchased before the ban were “grandfathered” — but, as outlined in a statement from the governor’s office,
“The new law also requires existing owners of semi-automatic rifles to register their ownership, ensuring that law enforcement knows the location of these weapons of war and who to hold accountable if they fall into the wrong hands.”
The deadline for registering this lawfully owned private property with the State was January 1st, 2024. Naturally, 100% compliance wasn’t gonna happen — but how close did the commies come?
Let’s just say that Illinois has a very good fix on the number of gun owners, because it requires each to secure a Firearm Owner Identification card (FOID). There are roughly 2.5 million of those.
The Illinois State Police have reported that as of the January 1st deadline, just over 29,000 FOID holders obediently registered fewer than 69,000 banned firearms, magazines and such.
If you think that level of compliance — 1% of card-carrying firearms owners — comes anywhere close representing to what’s out there, you’re as nuts as the leftists who cooked up this unconstitutional racket.
Faced with obvious defiance, will the State go after the scofflaws? If so, how? That job would fall to the sheriff in each county.
Last January, 80 of the state’s 102 sheriffs made it clear that they will not enforce the ban.
And the State Police? They’re not saying.
It’s a safe bet that the governor — who, we should remember, doesn’t have to get his hands bloody to preserve his progressive bona fides — will order some sycophant jurisdiction to make busts. It’ll be synchronized shock-and-awe stuff, high-profile enough to intimidate a few more FOID holders to come clean.
Dissatisfied, he’ll order another raid. And another. It’ll be ugly.
As a federal officer once confided in me. “I wouldn’t want that duty on the second day.”
I don’t live in Illinois. Neither do you. Other than objecting to the ban and its enforcement as a matter of principle, why should we care?
Simple — because a federal ban is coming. It’s only a matter of time. The cocksure regime in Illinois is a window on how it could unfold.
The feds will watch and learn. So should we.
And then I went for a walk.
I believe that’s all for today.
Take care of yourselves, Patriots. Stay calm. Stay sharp. Stay free.
#WiseUp #LibertyOrDeath #Ungovernable
#LetsGoBrandon #FJB