Have you seen this? Ten month old baby gets a gun permit

[terip64]

This is just stupid.



Baby 'Bubba' gets a gun permit
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/15/baby.gun.ap/

• "Bubba" Ludwig, 10 months, has an Illinois gun permit
• His father paid $5 fee, filled out application; didn't actually expect to get permit
• Firearm owner's identification card has scribble where signature should be
• "Bubba" received a 12-gauge Beretta shotgun as a gift from grandfather

more at link

[LostinVA]

1. Oh boy

[ATK]

2. publicity stunt.

do

[HughBeaumont]

3. Sigh.

[terip64]

God I lived in a bubble. I had no idea these kind of people really existed

until I moved to MI. Still shocks me though.

[MADem]

4. It does kind of point out the 'pointlessness' of the whole process

If they're gonna give them to anyone, without constraint, what's to stop a criminal from applying for a permit for his 'conviction free' kid?




Illinois State Police oversee the application process. Their purpose, said Lt. Scott Compton, is to keep guns out of the hands of convicted felons, those under an order of protection and those convicted of domestic violence.

"Does a 10-month-old need a FOID card? No, but there are no restrictions under the act regarding age of applicants," he said.

Ludwig, 30, of Chicago, applied for the card after his own father bought Bubba a 12-gauge Beretta shotgun as a gift. The weapon will probably be kept at Ludwig's father's house until the boy is at least 14.

[terip64]

5. Yeah, at first I thought that the father was trying to make a point. n/t

[qdemn7]

6. No what's stupid in the first place...

Is the FOID and Illinois' asinine gun control laws. In fact Illinois is on the verge of passing MORE asinine gun control laws which is going to cost Illinois jobs and revenue. But I guess jobs and revenue never gets in the way of politician assholes being assholes. Iowa on the other hand is eagerly courting the gun manufacturers who will be leaving Illinois.

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070503/NEWS/705030391/-1/ENT05

http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=6513147&nav=1sW7

http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2007/05/15/news/local/doc464940a118e31916653852.txt

[unpossibles]

7. on the bright side

all the other kids in the daycare he eventually goes to will be safer now!!1!!ONE!