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Ineffective & stupid Chicago gun laws bar museum from displaying Nazi weapon seized by WWII hero
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Leroy N. Soetoro
May 18, 2013, 6:56:34 PM5/18/13
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What�s a military museum without firearms of yesteryear?
Chicago Alderman Edward Burke introduced an ordinance last week that would
allow museums in the Windy City to possess and display unloaded guns
classified as �curios or relics� after learning that the Pritzker Military
Library and other city museums are currently banned from including them in
exhibits.
If passed, the museum�s president and CEO told FoxNews.com it would allow
its estimated 15,000 annual visitors to see a significant World War II
artifact personally returned stateside from a now-deceased U.S. Army
officer.
�Alderman Burke heard our story about this and really came to the same
conclusion we did � there�s really no clear code for museums,� Ken Clarke
said Tuesday. �And because of the lack of clarity, we haven�t taken any
chances. So rather than hope for the best, we wanted to do this properly.�
A German Walther PP 7.65-mm. handgun donated to the museum by relatives of
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. William P. Levine � one of the highest-ranking Jewish
generals in American history � is currently kept in a safe along with a
dozen other handguns at a gun range in suburban Lombard, where they are
exempt from the Chicago Firearms Ordinance, Clarke said.
Levine, who obtained the semiautomatic pistol from a Nazi officer during
World War II, was among the first Allied soldiers to liberate the Dachau
concentration camp in 1945. His relatives donated his uniform, military
papers and artifacts, including the handgun, to the Pritzker Military
Library following his death at age 97 in March, but the historically
significant firearm remains outside Chicago limits and away from visitors�
eyes.
�General Levine had the very unique experience of interviewing both
captors and captives at Dachau as a U.S. intelligence officer,� Clarke
said. �So when you actually have a story attached to Levine, the
historical value goes through the roof. For us, it means a heck of a lot
historically.�
Under Burke�s proposal, which was formally introduced on Wednesday,
Chicago museums would be permitted to display unloaded firearms like
Levine�s firearm if classified as �curios and relics,� which are defined
by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as firearms
that are at least 50 years old, certified by the curator of a municipal,
state or federal museum or any gun that derives a �substantial part� of
its monetary value from rare features or associations with historical
figures, periods or events.
�Chicago is home to several world-class museums,� Burke said in a
statement. �And it has come to my attention that such an exemption is
reasonably warranted to allow such institutions to display unloaded
firearms that often accompany uniforms and other historical artifacts.�
Levine, with the permission from U.S. military officials, brought the
handgun back to the United States after 30 years in the Army Reserve. His
experiences at the concentration camp near Munich reportedly haunted him
for nearly four decades after the war.
"Every time he'd talk about it, when he'd come to the sentence, 'And then
I came to Dachau,' he'd break down," his wife Rhoda told the Chicago
Tribune in April. "He couldn't get that sentence out without the vivid
memory of it. That choked him up."
In 1995, Levine told the newspaper he ultimately began to share his
experiences to local high school and college students, as well as with
visitors at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, as a way to educate others
about the atrocities of war.
"For me, the most important and effective method of preventing another
Holocaust is truth and education," Levine said.
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States of America.
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has his job.
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improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptness.
Obama continues his goal of disarming America while ObamaCare increases
insurance premiums 200% and leaves millions without health care.
Obama helped bankrupt Illinois. Democrat run Chicago closes 54 public
schools.
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What�s a military museum without firearms of yesteryear?
Chicago Alderman Edward Burke introduced an ordinance last week that would
allow museums in the Windy City to possess and display unloaded guns
classified as �curios or relics� after learning that the Pritzker Military
Library and other city museums are currently banned from including them in
exhibits.
If passed, the museum�s president and CEO told FoxNews.com it would allow
its estimated 15,000 annual visitors to see a significant World War II
artifact personally returned stateside from a now-deceased U.S. Army
officer.
�Alderman Burke heard our story about this and really came to the same
conclusion we did � there�s really no clear code for museums,� Ken Clarke
said Tuesday. �And because of the lack of clarity, we haven�t taken any
chances. So rather than hope for the best, we wanted to do this properly.�
A German Walther PP 7.65-mm. handgun donated to the museum by relatives of
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. William P. Levine � one of the highest-ranking Jewish
generals in American history � is currently kept in a safe along with a
dozen other handguns at a gun range in suburban Lombard, where they are
exempt from the Chicago Firearms Ordinance, Clarke said.
Levine, who obtained the semiautomatic pistol from a Nazi officer during
World War II, was among the first Allied soldiers to liberate the Dachau
concentration camp in 1945. His relatives donated his uniform, military
papers and artifacts, including the handgun, to the Pritzker Military
Library following his death at age 97 in March, but the historically
significant firearm remains outside Chicago limits and away from visitors�
eyes.
�General Levine had the very unique experience of interviewing both
captors and captives at Dachau as a U.S. intelligence officer,� Clarke
said. �So when you actually have a story attached to Levine, the
historical value goes through the roof. For us, it means a heck of a lot
historically.�
Under Burke�s proposal, which was formally introduced on Wednesday,
Chicago museums would be permitted to display unloaded firearms like
Levine�s firearm if classified as �curios and relics,� which are defined
by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as firearms
that are at least 50 years old, certified by the curator of a municipal,
state or federal museum or any gun that derives a �substantial part� of
its monetary value from rare features or associations with historical
figures, periods or events.
�Chicago is home to several world-class museums,� Burke said in a
statement. �And it has come to my attention that such an exemption is
reasonably warranted to allow such institutions to display unloaded
firearms that often accompany uniforms and other historical artifacts.�
Levine, with the permission from U.S. military officials, brought the
handgun back to the United States after 30 years in the Army Reserve. His
experiences at the concentration camp near Munich reportedly haunted him
for nearly four decades after the war.
"Every time he'd talk about it, when he'd come to the sentence, 'And then
I came to Dachau,' he'd break down," his wife Rhoda told the Chicago
Tribune in April. "He couldn't get that sentence out without the vivid
memory of it. That choked him up."
In 1995, Levine told the newspaper he ultimately began to share his
experiences to local high school and college students, as well as with
visitors at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, as a way to educate others
about the atrocities of war.
"For me, the most important and effective method of preventing another
Holocaust is truth and education," Levine said.
--
Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
States of America.
Eric Holder, racist black murdering United States Attorney General, still
has his job.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptness.
Obama continues his goal of disarming America while ObamaCare increases
insurance premiums 200% and leaves millions without health care.
Obama helped bankrupt Illinois. Democrat run Chicago closes 54 public
schools.
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