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The police can approach you and demand you ‘show your papers’ to prove you’re allowed to exercise this right, otherwise, you are committing a crime.
Some people may have an urgent need to obtain a firearm for self-defense in their home because of a threat they face, yet they absolutely cannot do that. They have to file the application, go through the process, and wait as long as the state wants to take.
At every step of the way, the burden of proof is on the citizen to be allowed to exercise their rights. You go through the first round, and if they deny you, you can do an internal appeal within the Illinois State Police, which has a review board. If you lose at all those stages, you can go to court, but even then, the burden of proof remains on you to show that you’re entitled to exercise your Second Amendment rights.
In our view, that is the exact opposite of how constitutional rights are supposed to work. A right means that you are presumed allowed to do something unless the government has a sufficiently good reason to stop you. Normally, if the government wants to disarm a particular person, they have to go to court, get a restraining order, and present evidence showing why that person shouldn’t be allowed to have a gun. But in Illinois, everybody is treated as guilty until they prove themselves innocent.
Jacob Huebert
NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel
May 19, 2026
Civil liberty advocates sue blue state over ‘show your papers’ gun law
I am inclined to believe there would be a far fewer infringement of civil rights if the constitution allowed for government officials to be presumed guilty until they prove themselves innocent.
Just a thought…
I like the concept of H. Beam Piper’s SF novel “Lone Star Planet”. (You can find it, free, on gutenberg.org)
“I am inclined to believe there would be a far fewer infringement of civil rights if the constitution allowed for government officials to be presumed guilty until they prove themselves innocent.”
Just a thought…
According to Illinois government. That would be fine. As the article sets the precedence. And that’s how they treat everyone below them. Especially gun owners.
The real problem is not found in the law. (Nobody follows that anyway.)
The real problem always lies in enforcement. Communists grabbed that one first out of the box, and we have no way of enforcing anything. Good or bad.
Until we take back enforcement.
We’re doomed.
Most all societies are controlled through fear. And communism is a cult where the cultists are stupid to fear much.
That’s why “all power comes from the barrel of a gun” with them.
And we have 90% of the guns. But no will.
I lost my right to Keep and Bear Arms because I couldn’t afford an attorney to get me off the charges. A pissed off “Domestic Partner” can lie through their teeth and wreck my rights through the Lautenberg Amendment. There is supposed to be a process of appeal but the D.O.”J”. will not fund that department so I may have a chance to enjoy all my rights. It’s been 26 years now. “F” this government.
This is not our Joe.
I’d believe it was another real Joe if they hadn’t used our Joe’s own blog URL in the website field.
Nothing said is egregiously wrong, but seems rather AI-ish. Also, our Joe definitely hasn’t been deprived of any rights as a result of the Lautenberg Amendment.
Do better, not-our-Joe.
Correct. This was not me.
I didn’t realize that there was an exclusive use of the name “Joe”. My post isn’t A.I. nor am I a bot. As for the URL, I just highlight, copy and paste to put it in.
“I have the government’s permission to exercise that right.”
Commies, commies, commies. Socialist. Democrat libtards. Communism, socialism.
“They took our jobs”
Bwahahahahahah.
Just like screaming Joe, you will forever be finding boogeyman men under the bed, because you have no idea how to feel safe in your own skin.
So sad for you all.
Commies don’t take people’s jobs.
They can even wipe their own asses, let alone do a days work.
What a putz.
“Bwahahahahahah.”
Yes yes, laugh some more. Only the truly superior could possibly type those letters in that order.
And your arguments are… well, I’m sure they are so very convincing, if you would just allow a lowly mortal like myself to read them instead of the random insults that we, no doubt, deserve from your amazing self.
Just one little note:
“Commies, commies, commies. Socialist. Democrat libtards. Communism, socialism.”
The only person mentioning any of those on this post (including the post itself) is… you.
I’m sure there’s some reason someone so incredibly superior would go off on some random tangent and laugh about it so ridiculously as if they were a superior being despite an evidence of such, but, lowly mortal that I am, I can’t see it.
Are you able to share your superior enlightened wisdom, oh superior supreme being of superior-ness?
(I’m going to vote “No” on that.)