CHICAGO (AP) -- It will probably be quite a while before Bubba Ludwig gets to use his Firearm Owner's Identification Card.
Bubba is just ten months old, but has been issued the official State of Illinois gun ID. The application was filled out by his father, newspaper columnist Howard Ludwig. The ID card arrived, complete with Bubba's toothless baby picture. Ludwig says he never thought the gun permit would be approved.
The ID card program is administered by Illinois State Police. A spokesman for the department says there are no restrictions under the law regarding the age of applicants. But long gun-buyers must be at least 18 in Illinois, 21 for handguns.
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2007-05-18 08:01:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Somewhere, some how, someone in the gov't f'd up on this one.
2007-05-18 08:04:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The article, and your question calls what the baby got a "Gun Permit" or an "ID Card". Which is it? And what privileges does it include?
When I was a baby, I got a social security card - nobody got worried that I'd apply for retirement benefits though, as that would require that I be older.
Does this card allow the baby to carry a concealed firearm? If so, then there's a REAL problem. If it's actually an ID card, then the article (and you) are upset out of ignorance of what is happening.
2007-05-18 08:33:26 · answer #2 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not that they ALLOWED it, it's just that no one ever bothered to write a law saying that it WASN'T allowed.
Seriously though, why would a politician think that a ten month old would try to fill out the application. Anyway, it's just an ID card, it doesn't mean anything really. It's just a joke that the father through together and I applaud him for it. Good one Howard, good one.
2007-05-18 08:11:59 · answer #3 · answered by Rhyno 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you may desire to seem at how the crime expenditures have been affected interior the international locations (ie:Australia) after taking gun rights remote from their voters. Crime went up. definite, i think of anybody who buys a gun could desire to pass by using a protection course. i do in comparison to a number of of the regulations. The gov don't have lots say interior the lives of regulation abiding voters. while replaced into the record time a criminal used their very own legally registered gun to dedicate a criminal offense?
2017-01-10 06:58:35 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haha... he must have at least lied about the age on the permit. I bet you they are almost all virtually computer-processed these days... and computers only do what they're told.
2007-05-18 08:09:20 · answer #5 · answered by J U 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't matter, no one will sell him a gun until he's the appropriate age.
2007-05-18 08:09:01 · answer #6 · answered by Paul C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, you know his name.....darn....can't think of his name.....ohhhh
shoot.....you know the the fat one with the sticky fingers that always kisses the babies
2007-05-18 08:10:16 · answer #7 · answered by llibp 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋