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XDTalk RSS · 05-21-2008, 06:00 AM

Alderman Richard Mell (33rd) is a former hunter with an arsenal of weapons that reportedly features shotguns, rifles and pistols, including a Walther PPK of James Bond fame. But there's a problem. Mell forgot to re-register the weapons as required every year by the ordinance that he helped to pass as one of the City Council's most senior members. So, what does an alderman... [Chicago Sun-Times, via gunpolicy.org ]

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XDConvert9mm · 05-21-2008, 06:08 AM

Ah, Chicago politics at it's finest. Since the law that Mell helped create was not able to accomodate his own breaking of said law, a new one goes to a vote to help him out. The amazing part, had I not grown up there, is that he talks about this like it is a perfectly natural reaction to an inconvenient situation for him. Glad I got out in 86.

aiformula · 05-21-2008, 08:02 AM

just one more ****stick politician... keep em in the land of lincoln

ForTehNguyen · 05-21-2008, 08:33 AM

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"It's not just for me. It's for other people with the same problem. It's giving people who legitimately registered their guns at one time only to let it slip by a chance to come back into compliance," Mell said. "Some people didn't realize that, every year, you have to re-register your guns."

"I knew it was the law. I thought it was being done [by a staff member]. 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.

bigun · 05-21-2008, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by ForTehNguyen

Its all my staff members fault. I wonder how he'd feel about someone else using the same line?

05-21-2008, 06:00 AM	#1
XDTalk RSS XDTalk Robot News Feed Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 2,360	Chicago Pol Forgets to Register His Guns, Rewrites Law to Provide Amnesty Alderman Richard Mell (33rd) is a former hunter with an arsenal of weapons that reportedly features shotguns, rifles and pistols, including a Walther PPK of James Bond fame. But there's a problem. Mell forgot to re-register the weapons as required every year by the ordinance that he helped to pass as one of the City Council's most senior members. So, what does an alderman... [Chicago Sun-Times, via gunpolicy.org ] More...

05-21-2008, 06:08 AM	#2
XDConvert9mm XDTalk 5K Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: NW Atlanta Suburbs Posts: 6,646	Ah, Chicago politics at it's finest. Since the law that Mell helped create was not able to accomodate his own breaking of said law, a new one goes to a vote to help him out. The amazing part, had I not grown up there, is that he talks about this like it is a perfectly natural reaction to an inconvenient situation for him. Glad I got out in 86. __________________ "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."

05-21-2008, 08:02 AM	#3
aiformula XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sw ohio Posts: 3,149	just one more ***stick politician... keep em in the land of lincoln __________________ Tony The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life--hence it is a valuable possession to him. - Mark Twain*

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