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Chicago Official Wants GPS Tracking Devices Required on All Guns: ‘Safety Is…a Much More Important Issue Than Privacy’

Jan. 17, 2013 11:00pm Jason Howerton

Credit: AP

A Chicago alderman is asking City Council to hold hearings on a controversial gun control proposal that would require GPS tracking of all firearms, CBS Chicago reports.

Ald. Willie Cochran, of the 20th District, wants GPS chips implanted in all new guns, as well as retrofitted on existing firearms, so police can locate them if they go missing. Cochran is also a former police officer.

“Just like if your car gets stolen,” he explained, “OnStar can tell you where your car is. If your gun gets stolen, and you report it, we should be able to find that gun.”

As far as responsible gun owners’ right to privacy, Cochran isn’t really concerned about that.

“[S]afety is…a much more important issue than privacy,” he said.

“It is extremely important that we look past this privacy issue, at this point, and understand how important it is for us to address the issue of safety,” Cochran added.

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woodyee
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 6:51am
Since this turd-squirting toad has no problem with invading privacy (as if the 2nd amendment were about privacy), I’d like to see gps implants in him AND his wife and kids, just in case they go missing…

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gary2658
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 6:50am
How about you stick your gps up the peoples butts that commit crimes and leave us law-abiding people alone!

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NoSleeper
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 6:44am
Once again, arguing for the American people to give up liberty for the perception of safety.
Gun owners will pay for this ‘safety feature’ which criminals will disable and the gun will not be recovered anyway.

As with GPSs in cars and cell phones, which were installed for recovery and safety purposes, once the Government has the data it will figure out how to exploit it, supported by activist judges. With the determination that one has no ‘right to privacy of location,’ these technologies are now used to track individuals without the need for a warrant. Expect the same for GPSs in guns. In the worst-case, it will allow the Government to quickly find and confiscate guns when a particular gun models (or all guns) are banned for ‘public safety.’

It is far easier to control, intimidate and oppress unarmed masses. Once the guns are gone, so is the Republic. Keep your guns and keep your liberty.

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ColoradoMaverick
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 6:39am
our elected officials cannot pass budgets or control their own personal lives and yet so many people look to them for answers to solve our societal problems. Give me a break! That’s like looking to a drug dealer to get help kicking a drug addiction.

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 6:18am
The goal of limiting magazines was to prevent people from buying certain brands of guns? No I don’t want to know how many of them invested in revolver gun makers?

Loop hole:

Problem: prevent more than 7 rounds being loaded? Weld dud rounds in bottom of magazine (insert one, weld next one on top it, repeat as necessary)

Problem: keep dud from getting chambored? Use a safety pin or modify the spring (or add a wire rope) that limits the travel of the bullets so that the duds are not chambored.

Bingo: buy whatever gun you want, most gun smiths are licensed fire arm dealers, and this modification would only cost $10 plus labor?

This is the temporary fix, while you reverse the infringement of your civil rights in court?

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dockman45
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 6:11am
And these people get elected…..
No wonder crime is so high, and the criminals sleep good at night…..
Let me give you a summary of the result.
“gun used in homicide found in lake”
The people in this country have to demand one thing in all this gun control mess. Any measure the government proposes has to be for everyone and I mean everyone. (no exemptions) Unlike health care laws the cops, private security, government, judges and their elite friends all have to comply.
The days of “we will make laws for you and exempt ourselve” have to come to an end……..

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Moment of Clarity
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 5:53am
any self-respecting criminal will easily defeat a gps device

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Hank919
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 5:49am
Willie Cochran = enemy of freedom. This is the stuff of creeping tyranny.

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shoestring
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 5:30am
How about a GPS tracker in every bullet? How about a GPS tracker installed in every politician so the public knows where these jerks are all the time. It’s all about safety you know. Do it for the children.

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geo01
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 5:16am
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When will voters smarten up?
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Politicians from the lowest governmental levels to elite in Washington D.C. . . .
THINK THEY ARE GODS.
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Wise up people. These ARE THE PEOPLE that are bringing this once great country down.
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We have completely lost control of what was once a Representative form of Government.
Let’s at minimum, restore this country to the basic: Government FOR THE PEOPLE, OF THE PEOPLE and BY THE PEOPLE.
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Apathy will only serve to continue the downward spiral. YOU CAN CHANGE this through your vote.
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Don’t be afraid to listen to both sides. Study what they say and remember . . . you must absolutely recognize that some of what they say is merely get to you to vote for them. NOTHING MORE…NOTHING LESS. Learn the difference and use it wisely.
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Mister Natural
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 4:52am
Since we’re playing the some bill of Rights amendments are better than others game let us try this out, it’s guaranteed to make the anti-gun zealots (more) crazy.
Proposed:
Step 1= Pick a city with strict gun laws and a high rate of gun violence. How about Chicago?
Step 2= Select the section of the city that has the highest numbers of shootings and/or the section in which the largest # of convicted shooters lived prior to conviction
Step 3= Do house to house/apartment to apartment searches of every residence in that section to seize illegal weapons
Step 4= Warrants? We don’t need no stinking warrants! To hell with the 4h amendment It’s for the good of the community.
Step 5= Sit back and enjoy the spectacle emanating from the lib universe

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liinsivi
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 4:14am
GPS chip in something as simple as a gun? Well that would take just a few minutes to “fix”. As for this article. If you’re going to talk about guns, please use a picture of a gun and not a CO2 power toy.

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StormRider
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 3:16am
Okay Libs here is my problem. You want to take guns away so everyone is safer right? And you demand that everyone must lock up their guns right? So I as a sheeple dutifully get the GPS chip on my gun. Everybody now can track my gun right? So I take my gun home while it is being tracked and to make you happy I open my gun safe put my gun in and close and lock the safe. My gun safe is metal.so it is a perfect Faraday cage blocking my guns GPS signal, I take my gun to a range in a metal gun vault which blocks the GPS signal, so you don’t know my gun is on the move, until I take it out of the metal case at the range. Maybe so you can track them we will be required to not lock them up in a metal case or safe. Hmmmm seems to be some technical glitches here,

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welovetheUSA
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 2:35am
Yep…….no privacy for you either, stick the chip where the sun don’t shine…treason is your game.

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rafa2design
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 2:06am
They must be out of their minds up there in Chicago. Some firearms are rare and to retrofit them with these devices would devalue them. It would be like punching a hole in a Mickey Mantle rookie card.

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yoshik
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 2:00am
bet the shines,bros and hos won’t have GPS. F . C . U . K that migit

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judyaz
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 1:37am
It might help stop some crimes, but only those who wanted to survive after shooting a bullet. It wouldn’t have stopped any rampages by crazy assassins who went to schools, theaters or malls or those who shot themselves next; “Game over.” I thought these was Obama’s concern now.
How would this work? Would it be like tracking our cells phones and thus, location, at all times including every place we ever have been with our iPhones? Isn’t there a big new building in Nevada to keep all that information on everyone?

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Chancellor
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 1:31am
Well since the Coward refuses to put his name on the bill……”How’s it feel to want” I as many other across this once free land refuse to cooperate.

Molon Labe

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Chromo200
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 1:13am
Where do these people come up with stuff like this .. Is there a school one goes to to learn to be an idiot. Will the cops have their guns GPS’d .. What will happen if the system is hacked .. will all this tracking be put on the internet.

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Tate McMichael
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 1:00am
Can anyone believe this stuff? Where will it all end? How intrusive does government have to become? Will there every be any limits with these people? How can liberals, who never seem to want to draw any boundaries on government (this far and no farther), deny that an Orwellian world is the ultimate logical outcome of all their designs? Do they even care?

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sasquatch08
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 12:56am
A few questions for my friends in favor of gun control:

How is punishing a whole class of people, in this case gun owners, for the actions of a very slim minority who misuse weapons, via banning those weapons OK?

Would “Black Control” banning blacks from going near liquor stores or gas stations be OK? A minority of blacks rob those places, and in some cases kill the workers.

What about “Asian Control” banning them from owning or operating a motor vehicle? A minority of them cause fatal car accidents due to poor driving.

How about “Native American Alcohol Control” banning Native Americans from possessing or drinking alcohol? A minority of them drink, become alcoholics, and kill people in fights, domestic disputes or drunk driving accidents.

What about banning people who go to bars from owning a car? A minority of them drink too much and cause drunk driving accidents that kill 9000 people a year.

This whole “If it saves one life…” line is a pile of crap. That’s an argument for shredding every part of the Constitution and taking away everyone’s right to do anything.

Life isn’t safe. You can die from it. No law will ever change that. Limiting people’s rights or access to objects will not make us significantly safer, and nothing EVER will make your life 100% safe.

Perhaps we should just pass a law banning the sun from expanding to a red giant, then we can live on this planet forever!

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paperpushermj
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 12:48am
Benjamin Franklin – Wikiquote
Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither. Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.

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RDavis49
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 12:38am
I have a great idea….. how about he give up his privacy and 2nd amendment rights and leave mine the hell alone. I hate how the stinkin’ liberal communist democrats always thing they can speak for everyone else. You jerk wads want to let the government run your lives, fine, go right ahead and sign all your constitutional rights over to them, but you leave the rest of us alone.

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Jake Dog2
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 12:33am
Yes real smart thing. It will take hackers no time at all to be able to track anyone’s gun and sell this app for a cell phone.

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Advection
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 12:22am
First prosecute obama/holder for Fast and Furious, then we’ll talk.

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- RDavis49
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 12:40am
  I agree, then we’ll TALK……
  
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