U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Lake County Councilman Charlie Brown (D-Gary) and Councilwoman Christine Cid (D-East Chicago) announced their support for a proposal to ban sales of “AR-15” firearms at gun shows held at the Lake County Fairgrounds. What they are proposing is to restrict lawful, tax-paying businesses from selling legal products to law-abiding citizens, who wish to exercise an enumerated constitutional right, at a taxpayer-funded venue during an event where the show promoter has paid to rent it. Licensed firearm dealers are bound by federal law regardless of whether firearm transfers take place at a gun show or at their regular premises. Their sales at the fairgrounds are subject to the exact same recordkeeping and background check requirements.
The Council’s next meeting will be on July 12th. The agenda for the meeting and the exact text for any proposed ordinance are not yet available. Please stay tuned to www.nraila.org and your email inbox for further details. In the meantime, please contact Council members and ask them to OPPOSE any such scheme to ban arbitrary categories of firearms.
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Ban their Employment Forever! Penalty for Treason=Rope
Lake County is Gary. Gary and Lake County are two of the most corrupt and obligingly Democrat havens in the state. Little wonder they’d like the few honest and defenseless citizens left to be defenseless.
No one up there can even spell “H-O-N-E-S-T”
Indiana has strong preemption in place, so this new law in Lake County would be illegal. Probably won’t stop them, but they’ll get sued and it will overturn eventually after wasting huge amounts of taxpayer dollars.
Would be curious to see how many crimes in Lake County or eve nearby Chicago are committed with the evil AR-15.
They always go for the jingoistic “trick of the week” that they read about some other fool enacting several jurisdictions away: one gun a month, ban gun shows, gun free zones, etc. They never seem to stop and ask, “Did it have any positive effect on the problem it was intended to solve?” We live in a violent country. Sometimes that violence is expressed through the use of firearms. They feel that if they somehow control the firearms, the underlying violence will just go away. Not all that different a technique from putting a band-aid on a sucking chest wound.… Read more »
ah, soon they will tell you what and how much food you can purchas and where you have to go to purchase that food that they allow you to purchase. i’m waiting for them to mandate co2 emitters on every person to curb greenhouse gases in the guise of saving the planet.
I’m originally from Gary IN and Charlie Brown lived 2 doors down from where my Grandma used to live. He has always been an enemy of liberty, a real communist at heart and evil as hell. Fortunately, the Indiana Statehouse has been overwhelmingly Republican and stopped these stupid and wrong bills dead in their tracks. But I moved from there because Indiana is being overrun by RINOs (like Judas Pence and Chief Justic John Roberts). At some point Indiana will fall to the commiecrats, and they already have red flag gun confiscation on the law-books. Wherever you live, make damn… Read more »