Appeals Court: Government Can Require Gun Registration

[jakematic]

Snippet from http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/19/taking_liberties/entry5253857.shtml

An appeals court in Chicago has ruled that the federal, state or local government can require all citizens to register their firearms under penalty of law.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals said that, even after the Supreme Court's high-profile gun rights decision last year, the Second Amendment is no obstacle to mandatory gun registration.

The case arose out of the Chicago-area town of Cicero's mandatory registration requirement for firearms. A local man named John Justice was raided by the Cicero police on suspicion of violating business ordinances including improper storage of chemicals; the police discovered six unregistered handguns during the raid.

[Bubafat]

Wow.  That's just plain scary.  Other than alerting our representatives to this, is there anything we (non illinoiseesess) do?  It's not like these people are elected.

~Matt