What exactly is a “high-powered weapon”?
Doesn’t matter. It will be overturned by SCOTUS. Who exactly gets to define what an assault weapon is? My dog is an assault weapon, as is my car.
Could a politician’s mouth be considered an offensive assault weapon?
SUPER Majority: House, Senate, and Governor.
Plus, law enforcement was stripped of several protections in the last session.
Source: http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/7.1/Gun-Facts-7.1-screen.pdf, page 21.
Extremely likely, but in the long run it won't matter. Miller v. Bonta is pending in California, and once it is overturned, that will set the nationwide precedent that post Bruen all of these so-called "assault weapon" bans are unconstitutional.
Deer hunting in Illinois:
Illinois Department of Natural Resources, ammunition is restricted to .30-caliber or larger centerfire cartridges that are less than 1 2/5 inches in length or straight-wall cartridges of at least .30 caliber. Acceptable cartridges “must be available as a factory load, with the published ballistic tables of the manufacturer showing a capability of at least 500 foot-pounds of energy at the muzzle.”
The list of approved cartridges includes .45-70 Government and .450 Bushmaster. The .300 Blackout and .44 WCF are also on that list, along with a half-dozen other bottleneck rounds, but most of the approved rifle rounds are straight-wall cartridges.
No bills get passed in IL unless Mafia approved or get elected for that matter.
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.
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...
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.