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  1. SSSSSsssssssooooooo…. he was already a felon and in possession of a gun?
  2. How is “dangerous weapon” defined? or we talking a folding pocket knife? nunchucks? a Louisville slugger? a Scottish claymore? it seems unnecessarily vague.
  3. I made it official last week. It is just a paper copy for now: The real deal plastic/laminated one should be arriving in another week or two. Now it is just a matter of getting a Missouri vehicle inspection , and then Missouri plates. 🙂
  4. Thanks for that Wired link. I looked up that Carpenter case on wiki. Here is just a very small screenshot: There are murderers and rapists who get less time than that. SCOTUS kinda kicked the case back down to the Appellate court. In turn, they said the FBI was acting in good faith, so they basically got a “mulligan”. His conviction was NOT overturned. So Timothy Ivory Carpenter may have won the battle, but he lost his war. 😞
  5. Huh? That Carpenter case is interesting because that almost sounds like a reversal of Smith v. Maryland: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Maryland which said telephone pen registers were A-okay without a warrant. That said, there are other ways that the police can and do get access to your cell phone tracking or location data. Case in point…SecurUS: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/cellphone-tracking-law-enforcement.html#:~:text=But the former sheriff of,in state and federal court. Another particular instance…not necessarily a legal case, at least not yet. IDOT bought a bunch of cell phone location data in 2019: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/illinois-bought-invasive-phone-location-data-banned-broker-safegraph Now, did IDOT keep that data strictly in house within IDOT? Or did the ISP get a copy of it too? Or how about giving it to the Feds? As a side note…years ago I went to my podunk little town’s city hall to pay my electricity, water, and sewer bill. There was another customer in line ahead of me. He was getting an occupancy permit. The clerk told him to stand off to the side at this other table to fill out the form. Then as I stepped up to the window she basically yelled at the guy, “BE SURE TO INCLUDE THE NAMES OF YOUR CHILDREN AS THE OTHER RESIDENTS INSIDE YOUR HOUSE!” Fast forward a few months later, and I was back to pay another bill. Through the bullet proof glass, I could see a bunch of mail on the clerk’s counter. I looked a little bit closer, and sure enough, there was a check to Podunk, IL from LexisNexis. So my best guess is City Hall is getting paid by LexisNexis for all the data City Hall gives LexisNexis.
  6. Nope! I am not saying that at all. What I am saying is that some criminal gets arrested for a crime…if the perp is in ISP custody or is going to be interrogated by ISP “detectives”, they will run the perp through the Lexis Nexis database to see what kind of legal defense he can afford. As a slight thread drift even more…. , I am sure you have seen enough YouTube videos about civil asset forfeiture. Or you have heard about enough civil asset forfeiture cases, that it should not be too much of a stretch in your imagination how some cops could abuse or misuse the LexisNexis database or other databases and target people. And seize their lawfully earned cash or other assets while they are traveling.
  7. slight thread drift in progress When i was just a flunkie intern for the Illinois State Police at one of their intell sharing centers, the ISP relied heavily on the LexisNexis database to see what kind of assets, properties, past addreses, and previous associations perps had. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNexis It was made really clear to me that the Illinois State Police wanted to see if a perp could afford a real defense attorney or if he would be stuck with a public defender. Also, if you have ever opted in at your work to get your W-2’s sent to you electronically, you may have inadvertently opted in to “The Work Number” database. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_Number Sssssoooo….just like LexisNexis sold subscription services to the ISP, I suspect the ISP also has access to The Work Number database. So they know exactly how much you have been getting paid. And how often you get paid. Or the states attorney’s offices have access to both databases. Which in theory, could be used to target and hammer somebody over this PICA law. You can’t pick somebody like Bailey who appears filthy rich, has plenty of high dollar assets, and has a big enough social media following. Nah….he’s too big of a fish to fry. Conversely, if you’re the State, you can’t pick on somebody who doesn’t even have a pot to pee in. Instead if you are the State, you pick someone middle of the road….somebody who has just enough…. A good paying job and enough assets to make it scary for him to lose it all and to make an example out of him to scare everybody else.
  8. “The process is the punishment.” Illinois law allows for people to be detained in jail for up to 72 hours WITHOUT being charged. Would most people get fired from their work if they missed 3 days? Would most people get fired from their work if they had to tell their boss or HR that they were going to be missing work because they were in jail and went on to tell them that they haven’t been charged yet?
  9. It must be a glitch in the Matrix, but that link takes me right back to this thread. I even tried to do a cut and paste. Same thing.
  10. Yeah, I vaguely remember seeing an exception for competition shooters also. About the only time I am on a real computer any more is at work. The search function for .pdf’s works way better on a real computer than on my smart phone. So the last time I looked there was a “carve out” for Olympic shooters and/or coaches and something about the Shooting Complex in Sparta.
  11. Thanks Euler for clearing that up! I used to shoot USPSA pistol matches. There are divisions which you sign up for based on the gun you shoot. A typical USPSA (or Steel Challenge) Open Division gun would look like this: That gold colored part on the right is a muzzle brake / compensator. Those compensators normally would thread onto the barrel. I guess the only other way would be to weld one onto a barrel. Or have a milled from one piece barrel and integral compensator. The “big stick” magazines could hold up to 28 or 29 rounds of 9mm Major. So, in effect, USPSA (and Steel Challenge) Open division just got killed off in Illinois???
  12. Chances are that whatever store that was especially if it was part of a bigger or nationwide franchise, then their corporate HQ just came down with some edict “All reloading supplies require the cashiers to request a FOID card to do a background check at the ISP website.” It was just simple and straight forward enough for the minimum wage drone working the register to understand. You gotta keep in mind that most people don’t know or don’t understand the difference between a bullet and a “round of ammunition “. And of course corporate is just thinking of it as a CYA maneuver to check FOID cards on everything.
  13. Ha! LOL! I just noticed your screen name. I am right there behind you, bud, on moving to Missouri. I was at the tax assessor’s office in Hillsboro, Missouri yesterday to get a property tax waiver for my car. Which is just one more step closer to getting Missouri plates on my car(s). Now, I just need to get two bills sent to my new address in Missouri, and then I can get a Missouri driver’s license.
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