Another gun control advocate, runs afoul of his own laws..

[virginia mountainman]

And his solution....Re-Write the law, to make what he did legal...

I wonder if we, "the great unwashed" would be given the same consideration, in similar circumstances???

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/958879,CST-NWS-mell20.article

A blogger on the sun-times website, has a bit more information..

http://www.suntimes.com/news/blogentries/index.html?bbPostId=CzD25oBQIEwogCz1udhLdZHUmBBCl6w36xNBhHBCt0Dc745khB&bbParentWidgetId=B8k88rWwXopuz5STgLeVwBLu

[DonP]

1. Maybe more than meets the public eye

Mell is the father in law of our very unpopular govenor Blagoyevich and a close buddy of Mayor Daley, both huge gun grabber type guys.

There is some speculation that Mell and Daley may see the Heller vs. DC writing on the wall and are trying to create some plausible deniability when it comes to Chicago's turn in court by reopening the handgun registry for a month.

"See, we don't really ban handguns in Chicago, every 25 years or so we'll re-open the registry."

The reason it all sounds fishy is because every Alderman is a sworn police officer according to Chicago law and has permission to own and carry concealed if they choose to. Most famous was former alderman Dorothy Tillman pulling a S&W J frame from her purse and waving it around in the middle of a city council meeting years back to make a point that she would not be intimidated by gang threats.

If not, then it's just another prime example of hypocrisy with two sets of rules, one for the ruling class and one for the rest of you mere peasants.

[beevul]

2. Does anyone else really believe his story?

Does anyone really believe his story?

From the article:

"I knew it was the law. I thought it was being done . If you have a person you trust to do it and they don't do it, then it doesn't get done. I'm not gonna say it's embarrassing. I'm just gonna say I should have done it," the alderman said."

Let me see if I have this strait. In chicago, gun control utopia of America, they allow someone other than a guns owner to register it for them?

I find that very hard, if not impossible, to believe.

Can anyone verify this as something that is allowed?

[TPaine7]

3. I don't expect honesty, consistency, logic, decency,

or any other virtues from these people.

They are thugs, who, having the protection of arms themselves, deprive others. Unfortunately, they will never get justice for their criminal violations of the letter and the spirit of the Constitution. Perhaps *crosses fingers* they will get the legal defeat they so richly deserve in the aftermath of the Heller decision.