The right to keep and bear arms is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution through the Second Amendment. However, some places treat those who want to exercise that right like there’s something wrong with them. It’s getting more and more difficult to buy guns in some places and, if that wasn’t enough, some want to make it even more difficult.
Take Illinois (please?) for example.
It’s already difficult to buy a gun, requiring you to get permission from the state in the form of a Firearm Owners Identification Card, but then you have to deal with all the federal requirements. It’s a pain.
It seems the director of the Illinois State Police wants it to be more of a pain. Worse, he wants to treat gun owners like criminals. In the year since five workers died in a suburban Chicago warehouse shooting, state officials have beefed up illegal firearms enforcement efforts, including the first-ever operations by state authorities to confiscate weapons from those whose gun permits are invalid, Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly said Thursday.