The citizens of Illinois can always refuse to cooperate. Their defense is the Second Amendment.
I knew they would try something.
Odds are, it’ll probably pass.
If the IL RATs are dumb enough to pass this bill, its enforcement will be enjoined immediately by a federal judge (or by the 5th Circuit), which would be the third time in three years that IL is b1tch-slapped for its gun-grabbing by the federal judiciary.
If you ban every semi-auto with no grandfathering, why would anyone need a 10 round magazine?
I don’t think this or anything close to it will pass or survive longer than 2 minutes without a successful court challenge, but...
Mr. Cullerton, there are at least 1.4 million legal gun owners in Illinois. There are about 3,600 employees (note, that’s employees, not patrol officers) of the Illinois State Police. How do you plan on collecting the firearms from those 1.4 million people? Do you really expect the State’s Attorneys of Illinois to spend the time and money to prosecute them all if they refuse to become defenseless?
The correct answer is to take to the phones/streets immediately and try to stop this unconstitutional and evil gun grab. If that fails, the next answer is to resist evil, including (but not limited to) fighting in court. After that, there are a number of options, and among the presumably legal ones would be air guns, where I found a sweet fully automatic air rifle online that I am checking out. There are also air rifles as big as .45 caliber, black powder (which can be made convenient), crossbows (high lethality, which I like for the application), and many other options even for those who choose to stay within this unjust and unconstitutional proposed law.
If I lived in Illinois and was limited to bolt action and actually following that law, I would get a big one where the first shot does the trick. There are some very nice bolt action rifles where one shot would be just fine. They are expensive, but AR-15s are expensive now too (a dealer I know just sold a nice, fully-loaded and accurized AR for over $5k), and I imagine someone from IL could sell/trade rifle for rifle with someone from another state who wanted the rate of fire and would give up the stopping power in return.
Gun control has worked beautifully in Chicago ... well, if by ‘beautifully’ you mean giving a billion dollar industry over to organized crime.... AND having high murder rates...
Does it apply to the police as well?
The DSM-V should have included Liberalism as one of it’s mental disorders.
Stupid government actions have consequences.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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
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.
So classic bird guns like the Remington 1100 are now "assault weapons?" Wow. At least they are not pretending any more. Let's see how that works out for them among the notoriously low voter-interest recreational sportsmen demographic.