BREAKING: Illinois Bill to Ban All Modern Firearms

The Truth About Guns ^ | Robert Farago | January 1, 2013

[neverdem]

UPDATE: Click here for the latest details on the gun ban and ammunition magazine registration bill, which includes new regulations for gun ranges.

Press release:

“The ISRA has learned from a credible source that Illinois Senate President John Cullerton [above] will introduce a so called ‘assault weapons’ ban on Wednesday when the legislature returns for its ‘lame duck’ session. Cullerton hopes to ramrod the bill through and get it to Governor Quinn for signature by Friday. If he is successful at doing so, nearly every gun you currently own will be banned and will be subject to confiscation by the Illinois State Police . . .

“Based on what we know about Cullerton’s bill, firearms that would be banned include all semiautomatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns. Pump action shotguns would be banned as well. This would be a very comprehensive ban that would include not only so-called ‘assault weapons’ but also such classics as M1 Garands and 1911-based pistols. There would be no exemptions and no grandfathering. You would have a very short window to turn in your guns to the State Police to avoid prosecution.”

TTAG’s sources tell us there will be two bills: one for semi-automatic rifles, lever guns, shotguns and handguns with certain features (e.g., threaded barrels); and one for ammunition magazine capacity.

Mags would be limited to 10 rounds and owners of existing magazines holding more than 10 rounds would have to register them with the state police.

One [non-ISRA] gun guy on the front lines in the Land of Lincoln tells TTAG that the odds of the bills going through are 50 – 50. He advises gun owners both in and out of state to call Senate President Cullerton at 217 782 2000 and/or find another legislator to pester at ilga.gov.

“If gun owners around the country melt the phone lines in the next three days we can push this thing back . . . that would be a tremendous morale boost ahead of federal legislation.”

About Robert Farago

Robert Farago is the Publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.

[Pollster1]

True that.....just got thru cleaning one that holds sub MOA out to a 1000yds....got less than 3 grand in it scope and all 308 24” barrel

That sounds very nice; I may get one soon. It could be a nice tool in a variety of situations.

[1rudeboy]

Like Ronald Reagan?

[listenhillary]

I have a house in central Missouri that is for sale. In a small town 20 miles away from several universities.

Illinoisans get first dibs.

[SumProVita]

Could it be that he wants such a ban because Illinois is so exemplary in showing how banning guns works????

“One of the cities with the strongest gun laws in the nation, Chicago, had 532 murders in 2012 and it is now considered to be one of the most dangerous cities on the planet.”

Progressives are truly insane.

[Hardraade]

Your casus belli is well beyond established already. Anything more is just like Ariel Sharon yelling about one “red line” after another.

[LadyBuck]

Jumping on the home-for-sale bandwagon for Illinois refugees:

House for sale in Eastern Iowa. 4BR, 4Ba 3000+SF
Totally renovated home, huge yard. Convenient to I-380, 20 minutes to UofIowa/ I-80. Upscale & mostly conservative neighborhood.

[HomeAtLast]

“Melt the phone lines”

Yeah, that’ll put the fear o’ God in them rascals.
Just keep paying your taxes, people. Support the status quo.

[Secret Agent Man]

you can murder your unborn child, but you can’t use a gun to defend it’s life or yours, once it’s born.

how’s that libtard pretzel logic?

[Sergio]

I’m seeing this as a liberal revisionist constitutional gun ban. I.E. “When the 2nd A was written, there were only muskets, so letting you have only muskets, meets the constitutional requirements of the 2nd A.”

If the law is passed and then overturned, it would add to the argument that the 2nd A applies to weapons in current use, and not just weapons in existence at the time the Constitution was written.

[Secret Agent Man]

bamster’s home state up in flames - i bet he’s happy, and so is rahm-it-in.

[matt04]

I guess they looked at Chicago and said, this is working great. Maybe we can get 500+ murders in every city if we ban and confiscate all guns from law abiding citizens.

[TChris]

I guess they looked at Chicago and said, this is working great. Maybe we can get 500+ murders in every city if we ban and confiscate all guns from law abiding citizens.

Obama has a cabinet member who said his goal was to get US gasoline prices up to the same level as Europe's, so everything would be "fair".

Perhaps this administration's goals are the same with the murder rate. Not enough people in Chicago getting whacked to compete with London yet.

[GnL]

The 2nd Amendment was incorporated to the states in 2010 in the SCOTUS case McDonald vs. Chicago. There is no freaking way an across the board ban could be considered constitutional in light of Heller and McDonald.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

“Based on what we know about Cullerton’s bill, firearms that would be banned include all semiautomatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns.

TTAG’s sources tell us there will be two bills: one for semi-automatic rifles, lever guns, shotguns and handguns with certain features (e.g., threaded barrels); and one for ammunition magazine capacity.

Mags would be limited to 10 rounds and owners of existing magazines holding more than 10 rounds would have to register them with the state police.

What is the point of “registering” magazines with 10+ capacity and banning semiautomatic pistols and rifles?

Gandalf

[sport]

I don’t know if you have caught on or not, but the Democrats have openly said,”The Constitution can go to hell, we are going to do as we damn well please”.With that, came the dare to us to stop them.

[moose07]

Your post caused an interest:

Crime rate	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10
Homicide total	184	184	175	160	169	167	139	190	159	146	171	190	189	204	182	168	162	156	148	136
Homicide rate	2.5	2.5	2.3	2.1	2.3	2.2	1.9	2.5	2.1	1.9	2.3	2.5	2.5	2.7	2.4	2.2	2.2	2.1	2.0	1.9

Source

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[Harald Westmoreland]

They’re not interested in disarming them...only productive, law-abiding citizens...you have to realize in their eyes, WE are the enemy.

[NormsRevenge]

Oh I get ‘it’ Thanks. The WoD was lost before it ever started. as to gangs, you should see our neighborhood as is.
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Get it ;-]

[HalfFull]

Was talking to the owner of my local gun shop yesterday.

He was at the Chantilly gun show over the weekend and AR-15’s couldn’t be had for less than $3K, and ammunition was going for three times the normal price. Said he saw someone pluck down 30K to buy these weapons and ammo.