Rep. Harry Osterman is trying to pass HB6123 to outlaw Blacks and Hispancis from owning firearms

In the state of Illinois, a bill is moving in the Illinois General Assembly Sponsored by Rep. Harry Osterman (D-14).

Representative Harry Osterman (D) 14th District

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Springfield Office: 273-S Stratton Office Building Springfield, IL 62706 (217) 782-8088 (217) 782-6592 FAX District Office: 5535 North Broadway Chicago, IL 60640 (773) 784-2002 (773) 784-2060 FAX Cook County

Years served: 2000 - Present

This bill is HB6123, which is a bill that Black and Hispanics should pay close attention to not just in Illinois but through out the United States.

HB6123, has the following clauses that needs to be paid close attention to.

• prohibit any person or entity from selling a firearm to a so-called “street gang member.
• This prohibition applies even if the individual has passed a Brady Law FBI background check. Making a prohibited sale would result in Class 1 felony charges and possible jail time for the seller.
• HB6123 promotes racial profiling at its worst,” commented ISRA Executive Director, Richard Pearson.

Popular culture has branded urban minorities with the ‘gangsta’ stereotype that is pervasive well beyond the confines of actual criminal enterprises. Today’s fashion, music, slang and lifestyle are all heavily influenced by the urban experience.

• HB6123 establish no test for determining ’street gang’ membership, and given the harsh penalties for violating the proposed law,

ISRA Executive Director, Richard Pearson, If HB6123 is passed into law, the calendar on race-relations will be turned back 70 years and there will not be a gun shop in the state that will sell a firearm to an African American or Hispanic person.

Even though the bill states gang member here is the definition of that title. "any combination, confederation, alliance, network, conspiracy, understanding, or other similar conjoining, in law or in fact, of 3 or more persons with an established hierarchy that, through its membership or through the agency of any member engages in a course or pattern of criminal activity."

There has been several nightclubs in Chicago that have created a controversy when they denied young men who had cornrows and wore baggy pants into the night club. The owners of these clubs stated that baggy pants and certain hairstyles are signs that a person is a gang member. We now have a person's sense of style, automatically clarifying them in the state of Illinois and who knows maybe other states as well, a gang member.

How do you feel about not being able to buy guns if you could pass the background check and you are buying a gun in a lawful way and to be told that you are denied this right on the basis of your skin color or your manner of dress or hairstyle? Do you see this bill has a way to deem the Black and Hispanics in a state of despair at the mercy of what other ethnic group that decides to come into their neighborhood with firearms. Is this going to lead to a search of all Black and Hispanics that now have legal firearms having to turn them over to the government? And is this going to also have authorities going through black and Hispanics homes in search of firearms? How long will it be before it goes to all of the states in these United States?

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." --- Ronald Reagan "There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." --- James Madison

The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects a right to keep and bear arms.^[1] The Second Amendment was adopted on December 15, 1791, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights. The American Bar Association has noted that there is more disagreement and less understanding about this right than of any other current issue regarding the Constitution.^[2]

Saul Cornell has claimed that for almost a century after the ratification of the Bill of Rights, the intended meaning and application of the Second Amendment drew less interest than in modern times.^[3]

Notable U.S. Supreme Court interpretations of the Second Amendment include those in United States v. Cruikshank (1875), Presser v. Illinois (1886), Miller v. Texas (1894), Robertson v. Baldwin (1897), United States v. Miller (1939) and District of Columbia v. Heller (2008).

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." --- Samuel Adams According to the IllnoisCarry.com, it stated that Mayor Daley, will not only use this bill to run gun dealers out of business but also to run bogus sting operations and to charge gun dealers with felonies and have them fight it out in court. If this bill is passed in Illinois, where does this leave the rest of the country http://affrodite.net/2010/03/15/illinois-gun-bill-hb6123-promotes-racial-profiling/ http://illinoiscarry.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20770http:/ http://biggovernment.com/jadkins/2010/03/02/chicago-gun-case-enforce-the-constitution-all-of-it/