Posted on 03/09/2005 12:09:08 PM PST by Mini-14
SPRINGFIELD -- Average citizens could carry concealed weapons under two bills that won overwhelming approval in a House committee Tuesday, setting up a rare, full-blown House floor fight over the issue that advocates say will make people safer and critics contend will lead to more gun violence.
The move further buttressed the National Rifle Association's strategy to not only blunt Mayor Richard Daley's push for gun-control laws but to take the fight to him with a frontal assault of its own.
"I'm heartsick," said House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie (D-Chicago), a major advocate of gun control. The NRA is on a "rampage" in Springfield, Currie said.
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Good point
I am shocked. I think the last few elections have really ticked off the down-staters (rightfully so!) and they are tired of having Daley run the entire state. Cook County needs to break off and become it's own state.
Cook County needs to break off and fall into Lake Michigan.
good to "see" you're still around!
Yeah, getting slowly back into things, but busy as can be. I penned a column for SAS's latest newsletter about taxing ammo. It was my first foray back in to the activism arena in a LONG time.
Anyone have any updates on this bill? Has it made any progress. It would be great to see this pass here in the Peoples Republic of Illinois.
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