Posted on 01/06/2023 8:44:03 AM PST by smokingfrog
DOA with SCOTUS.
Another Democrat circle jerk.
No bills get passed in IL unless Mafia approved or get elected for that matter.
Illinois State Rifle Association says they will sue immediately if it passes.
IMO it doesn’t matter whether it passes or not, based on some recent Supreme Court decisions on the 2nd Amendment all these Assault Weapons bans have been ruled unconstitutional
They don’t care.
It looks like they’re doing ‘something’, and the populace continues to be disarmed and disenfranchised.
Not one gun will be taken from the hands of criminals, so nothing changes - but reference line 1 - they don’t care.
This is what politicians ‘doing the work of the people’ looks like.
dozens of firearms defined by the state as assault weapons. ....................... Wheeeew, my claw hammer is still safe.
We need to push to make people stop using the word “weapon” wrong. Guns are tools and only become weapons when used to ‘assault’ people. A weapon is ANY object used to harm someone.
Lacks definition and unconstitutional on its face.
A system that affords itself special privileges while denying the rights of its citizens through special carve-outs is very dangerous and unequal.
Gun stores should refuse to sell banned weapons for personal use everyone.
The new Illinois law allows for .30 caliber or greater centerfire cartridges for deer hunting, BUT ONLY bottle-neck cartridges less than 1-2/5 inches, or straight-walled cartridges. But these cartridges are only allowed in single-shot firearms.
Before, we were pretty much restricted to shotguns and slugs, and black powder rifles.
They can’t even define what a woman is.
Be safe people, like the citizens in the Mexico city currently being protected by their army....finally?
“How likely is this to pass in the IL senate?”
It will pass and Prixter (well, that’s what WE call him, anyway) will sign it.
It is clearly unconstitutional, but we’ll have to let it play out through the courts.
I read the whole bill, which has been posted on line, and it appears it is in effect banning several semi-auto pistols, because their basic, as-designed magazines hold more than 10 rounds. The bill also criminalizes possession of ANY magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds, regardless the type of firearm. It’s an ex post facto law, and is unconstitutional.
About 100%.
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Waiting on MN to do this too...
I’ve challenged a few people to tell me, exactly, what a ‘bazooka’ is. They all stammer and say, ‘It’s a big gun’.
No, they always say about the Second Amendment, ‘What about a bazooka?’ That’s the context in which I challenge them. Of course they don’t know what it is, but that doesn’t stop them from invoking it.
How utterly arrogant of those legislators! As if any law they pass will have an effect on the very problems they claim that their law is worded to impact. This and similar laws will only impact, by definition, “law abiding” citizens. It is not the law abiding citizens who are the problem.
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