Since it is Illinois, they are probably planning to seize everyone’s guns before the change goes into effect.
Why did Prickster sign this? Votes.
It’s because no 1776 colonialist, ever, hunted deer with a flintlock (or percussion cap) to put meat on the family table.
Yeah, that roast backstrap was purchased at the Crown Approved butcher.
This isn’t about deer.
It’s about control....................
That “shall not be abridged” part seems to have them stymied . . .
Far less wounded deer get away.
I remember a Tap’s Tips story about a deer hunter that shot his first deer. He was so proud, and as he began to gut it, he remembered his fishing buddy who asked him to save the deer’s tail for tying jigs.
The guy cut off the deer’s tail, and the deer was just stunned, and got up and ran away. Leaving him standing there with the tail in his hand and no deer.
Leave it to the Great State of Chicago to write a pointless law that makes it as difficult as possible to comply with other than to spend lots of extra money.
Sure I will permanently alter (read Damage) my firearm so that I can go hunting whitetail deer.
First off, if you have to fire more than one round to take a deer you probably should not have taken the shot to begin with.
Second, I have never been hunting with anyone that just starts firing shot after shot at a deer. I have only heard one story from another hunter of someone he hunted with doing so.
This law pretty much eliminates pistol hunters. Unless someone starts manufacturing pistol cylinders with only 3 chambers for revolvers.
This legislation almost doesn’t do anything at all. And it says what the Illinois government thinks of you, a peon to be given occasional worthless indulgences.
Does anyone even make a rifle with a two-round magazine (magazine + chamber = 3 rounds max)?
At best this makes the rare double-barrelled rifle legal, or you could install a non-removable plug in a bolt action rifle. All made in the tight confines of the allowable ammunition.
What Illinois really needs is an open season on Democrats.
I didn’t realize that Illinois even allowed centerfire rifles for deer hunting at all - at least the public land was shotgun slug-only when I was there, though that was decades ago. In many states, people get around the no rifle law using “Contenders”, which are technically pistols (albeit very large ones, usually scoped) that shoot centerfire rifle calibers like 270s, 30-06 etc. I guess IL allowed single-shot rifles as a compromise.
So glad I live in a state where the regs read:
“FIREARMS
Deer & Bear
• Modern Rifles and Handguns: Centerfire
only, .22-cal. or larger with expanding
bullets. There is no restriction on magazine
capacity for rifles”
“One shot, Stevie, one shot.”
Deer hunting with machine guns!