Re: Denied Illinois FOID card

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On 6/27/08, FOID SYSTEM IS UN-CONSTITUTIONAL wrote:
> The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a constitutional right
> to keep guns in their homes for self-defense, the justices' first major
> pronouncement on gun control in U.S. history. Prooves FOID Cards violate a
> persons rights.

There are going to be challenges to existing gun laws because of the Heller
decision but don't expect that felons or those with a mental health history
will be allowed to own firearms. If you have spent time in a "rubber room" you
will still be restricted to owning a rubber gun.

Read the decision carefully. It is available at:
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/07pdf/07-290.pdf

Don't expect that unrestricted ownership is now the law of the land should read
carefully. Read below.
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ET AL. v. HELLER

"Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited.
It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any
manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed
weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment
or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast
doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by
felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms
in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or
laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of
arms."