Chicago Proposes Videotaping All Gun Sales

[ShotgunBlast]

CHICAGO (CBS) – The Emanuel administration has outlined a plan to impose strict regulations on gun shops that open within city limits, including a requirement to record every sale on video.

WBBM Newsradio Political Editor Craig Dellimore reports the Emanuel administration and Chicago Police have created a report with the help of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, envisioning a plan to require gun store employees to submit to criminal background checks, and receive training on identifying potential gun traffickers.

Under Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposed, gun shops in Chicago could not be located within 500 feet of a school or park – limiting them to very small pockets of the city covering less than .5 percent of Chicago.

The shops would have to install exterior lighting, surveillance cameras, and alarm systems, and provide secure storage of guns and ammunition. Police would have to approve a store’s security plan before it could open.

Cameras would have to record all sales of guns, and shops would not be allowed to sell more than one handgun per month to a single customer.

“Now that we’re required to allow gun sales within the city limits we do it in a way that does not undermine our public safety goals,” said Emanuel said during a police awards ceremony.

I wonder how the left would react if he proposed those same requirements to exercise your right to vote or if that was his proposed plans for abortion facilities in the city.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/05/27/ ... ign=555330

[MarcSpaz]

How the hell does video recording a transaction do anything to reduce crime after the weapon leaves the store? or even while in the store?

After reading that article, if the City imposes the strict regulations noted, it will be the equivalent to a ban on sales anyway.

They are structuring the regulations so that there is almost nowhere to open a store because of parks, playgrounds and schools. With only 0.5% of the square mileage of the city meeting the requirements, I am 100% certain that cost of that real-estate with be ridiculously expensive. The very small area will greatly limit the total amount of retail stores that can open, too.

They need to have security guarding the ammo and weapons? So now they need to hire staff that does nothing but watch the inventory. Again, driving cost of ownership through the roof.

Add in that the police need to approve the security of the facility and staff (likely based on opinionated prospective) all this adds up to no one is going to open, or if they do, their prices will be so high, they won't be open for long.

[dorminWS]

So, people will leave Chicago and go elsewhere to buy the guns that Chicago is powerless to prohibit the possession of, right? Smart move, Rahm. In one smooth move, you'll stamp out gun sales, the benefit of the economic activity it generates, and any opportunity at all to regulate the activity.

As for how Rahm's bunch would feel if Chicagoans' right to vote were similarly restricted, I'd say he'd see no problem with it. The City's corrupt political machine would just vote FOR them like they always have.