Chicago Police: We want to know who has weapons
Posted by FirearmsTruth on July 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The Chicago Sun Times reported this week that “75 people visited Chicago Police headquarters” to get applications to register their handguns. The paper more importantly offered this quote from Police Superintendent Jody Weis regarding the new registration process:
“We want to know who has weapons so that first responders can be award of that information before they enter a home.”
This “first responder” argument has been made before, but we must question whether this is really an issue in an emergency? Is there a more ominous reason as to why the Chicago PD might want to know who has a gun?
