Armed Hoosier held at Chicago event

[Disposable Heart]

Sorry, but folks that dont understand reciprocity in regards to state laws get no sympathy from me. When one takes the mantle of responsibility of gun ownership, they are to know the rules, particularly when going to another state.

I agree, Chicago (and Illinois) gun laws suck. They are asinine laws that are knee jerk reactions from a town that has little idea of what they are doing (not just in law enforcement/gun laws, but their road system and city management also, not to mention politics). But, not expecting to get into trouble when in Chicago while carrying a gun is pretty optimistic.

Fight for the right to carry, but understand that violating the laws will get one in trouble is important too. I am disappointed in Chicago, yes, but also in the gunowner.

 

[Manan]

So, ya think ole Shrome George of Michigan City, Ind. will take it the Supreme Court?

 

[GPD177]

No sympathyfor him, as said above, he should have known better than to go to that crap hole called Chicago armed.

 

[DHolder]

No pitty party here either. As DH said, the law is silly, but a law none the less. It is the actions of the lawless that create a bad image for the ones who obey the law, weather they like it or not.

 

[XDs4me]

I have heard that even LEO from a different state is not aloud to carry in Cook Co ?

But it is funny that the media does not tell us if this is just some guy with a permit that forgot to take it off his hip or a gang banger that was there for a reason?

That was true until 2004 until the feds passed the the law enforcment saftey act of 2004 allowing them to carry anywhere except those posted by the federal goverment.

 

[Manan]

We are assuming he was a good guy, like we all are. He also could be little baggy pant gang banger. Anyway, Cook county has him in their system now and his gun is probably gone.

 

[Donnelly]

???

Repped.

 

[millsusaf]

That's a fine example of why I don't go where I'm not welcome. Illinois and Chicago will never willingfully get any of my money.

 

[CyberGuyPR]

Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune and CPD, here is Mr. George.

 

[Hiram2005]

Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune and CPD, here is Mr. George.

YEP.....hmmmmm?

 

[dsol]

???

You spelled it wrong. It is Werd.

 

[walt o]

I would hope that the local paper will follow up as to if he had a Indiana LTC or if he is illegal in INDIANA .And publish what the outcome is . He is probably a good boy trying to turn his life around and break his ties with the old crowd,but we know the press has the headline for a person carrying a gun and will not follow up on the story

 

[dsol]

Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune and CPD, here is Mr. George.

Go ahead and call me a racist, but he just looks like the gangbanger type to me. Something about the eyes and attitude in his look. Of course, if the picture was a skinny white guy missing teeth, I would say he was a methhead instead.

 

[HandK]

Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune and CPD, here is Mr. George.

No profiling here, He looks like a fine upstanding citizen who lives in the burbs, drives a Benz, has a 9 to 5 job (9pm till 5am) pays his taxes and supports the community in witch he lives, and besides those were not his pants that the gun was found in.

 

[Passive101]

This man has an LTCH from Michigan City, IN.


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Michigan City man's gun permit not valid in Illinois
By Dave Hawk

Staff Writer

MICHIGAN CITY - A Michigan City man arrested Saturday for carrying a gun at Taste of Chicago had a permit to carry the gun and was there on an outing with his girlfriend and three children, not to cause trouble.

"I feel like it was a big misunderstanding," Tiffany Ward of Michigan City said Monday while trying to figure out how to get her fiance Shrome George, 25, out of jail.

She said he was slammed to the ground after admitting he had a gun, then taken to jail Saturday night. He was ordered held on $75,000 bond on the gun charge in court on Sunday. A police spokesman said George's arrest shows a "zero tolerance policy for criminal activity."

His Indiana gun permit isn't valid in Illinois, Ward said she found out.

"He works, he takes care of his family, he has no criminal history," Ward said Monday while tearfully explaining that he didn't realize he would get into trouble carrying the loaded 9 mm handgun into the food festival at Grant Park around 3 p.m. They had taken the South Shore from the Carroll Avenue station to Chicago. No one checked him for a gun when he entered, said Ward, 20.

"We just walked in with the stroller," Ward said, adding their visit to Taste of Chicago was a family outing, and the first time at the Taste for him. Later, around 7 or 7:30 p.m., after a side excursion to Navy Pier, they took a bus back to Grant Park to get back on the South Shore. They stopped to ask a security guard directions to the train, Ward said, and were told which direction to walk.

About five or 10 seconds later the guard came after them and said they were going the wrong way and told them to come back toward the Taste of Chicago entrance, where security turned him over to Chicago police.

That's when they asked if he had a gun. He said, "I have my gun on my hip," she said, but tried to explain that he had a permit. They took the gun away and "slammed him to the ground," Ward said.

When she tried to ask if she could get his keys or wallet, she said, an officer told her "Shut the F up and get back," Ward said. She said her fiance never resisted or tried to be forceful.

She objected to some news reports she heard that they were entering Taste of Chicago or "sneaking past the checkpoint," saying they already had been there and looking for the train to return to Michigan City. "He was directed back into the Taste after they knew he had a gun," Ward said.

She said he had the gun with its safety on in a holster. Asked why he carried a gun, she explained that, "He carries a gun everywhere." Her mother, Trina Biggers of Michigan City, said "We've had a lot going on. And how would he know Illinois law?"

Biggers said she understood someone had been shot at the Taste a year ago, "But what does that shooting have to do with him?"

"They are setting an example with Shrome, and I think that's horrible and disturbing," Biggers said. She asked that people who might have videotaped the incident come forth.

"This leaves these children with a stigma to have seen what happened and they will be afraid to come to police," Biggers said.

"How could they have viewed us as bag guys when we're pushing a stroller?" Ward asked. "That does not look like someone who is trying to break the law. My only question is why, why?"

 

[CyberGuyPR]

"We've had a lot going on. And how would he know Illinois law?"

And there is the poster for the antis.

 

[M9Hoosier]

uh oh, this doesn't look good for shrome. maybe this one will go to the supreme court after all.

 

[TopDog]

Ah so the plot thickens. Of course its his own fault for not bothering to check the laws. Lets wait and see if he tries to challenge the law (not that it would go anywhere).

 

[Rlee]

Wow did everyone picture this guy wrong or what. lol

Is it not true that as long as you don't stop in the state you can pass through it with a gun that is legally owned?

 

[1032JBT]

I have heard that even LEO from a different state is not aloud to carry in Cook Co ?

But it is funny that the media does not tell us if this is just some guy with a permit that forgot to take it off his hip or a gang banger that was there for a reason?

I have carried as an LEO in Cook County this year, both OC and CC and nothing was ever said. Not saying they don't have some jacked up law or something, but I didn't have to find out.