Semper Fi.
3 words: They Aren't AMERICANS.
I live in Illinois. These people get elected because the Republican party has been emasculated by the recent George Ryan ethics scandal and the failure of party leadership to offer and support strong conservative candidates.
That being said, I would think such legislation is unconstitutional and should be immediately contested in the courts.
Two words: DEAD PEOPLE
You did great.
"Thank God I don't live in Illinois."
I do. And if I may speak on behalf of the rest of the conservatives in this state, We're sorry. Maybe some of you "super" red state dwellers could send a few of yourselves over here to help even things out.
"How do these people keep getting elected?"
Unions, Chicago:Home of the Jesse Jackson Black Mind Control Looking For A Handout Program, Not enough people downstate (who are generally conservative to moderate) to offset the high liberal condensed Chicago Metro area, and former Republican Governor George Ryan's License For Bribes scandal. Last gov race could have been won by candidate Jack Ryan who was strongly ahead in the polls, until a judge ruled it was O.K. that the press be privey to sealed court documents pertaining to his divorce. Apparently coercing your wife to a sex club is bad for your political future........unless your Bill Clinton.
I'm with you. Thank God I don't live in IL too. They have some of the worst laws in the country.
I don't recall, to quote Mrs. Clinton, the words safe, lawful, and responsible, anywhere in the second amendment. That might be the beauty of the second amendment, anyone can own firearms until the various federal agencies, states, counties, cities, towns, municipalities, and other governmental entities start exercising their safe, lawful and responsible tactics in defiance of the Constitution of the United States of America.
They never stop and never give up. We must be more agressive in combatting these loons.
Cabela's should respond by building in Gary, Indiana instead. Then they should mount an advertising blitz in the Chicago market pointing out that the jobs, tax revenue, and economic growth they would have brought to Illinois will be going to Indiana instead, but jobs would still be open to Illinois residents willing to commute across the state line. They should emphasize in their ads that they were very interested in putting a store in the Chicago area, but that excessive, prohibitive, and confiscatory regulations made it economically infeasible to do so.
Because the actual voters can't compete with the dead ones. The precincts with the heaviest voter turnout are Graceland, Mt. Carmel and Waldheim. They always go 100% Dem. My grandfather and Al Capone, Dion O'Banion, Hymie Weiss, Vince Drucci all have voted the straight Machine ticket since 1948.
Because the actual voters can't compete with the dead ones. The precincts with the heaviest voter turnout are Graceland, Mt. Carmel and Waldheim. They always go 100% Dem. My grandfather and Al Capone, Dion O'Banion, Hymie Weiss, Vince Drucci all have voted the straight Machine ticket since 1948.
This is what will happen. Cabelas Will bribe, oops I mean lobby, the pols in question and the issue will disappear. This is no different than how business is done in the Middle East. It's just that the bribery is done more up front there. Out politicians on both sides of the aisle know this, and have been doing it for decades. Why do you think millionaires run for jobs that pay 100k. It's the power and graft that pays off. Have you ever seen a politician that left office broke?
If someone took the time to do the reseaerch, I bet he or she would find that very few, if any firearms purchased from Cabella's have been used by the original owner to commit a crime. Another "feel good" law that will nothing to make the world a safer place "for the children."
Tar and feathers. LONG over due...
All Illinois residents go to the NRA-ILA website and from there look up your reps and then email them or get their phone numbers and contact them that way.
I do live in Illinois and I plan to join the Illinois State Rifle Association today.
Why would any freedom loving company want their sales tax contribution to go to fund those freedom hating Marxists anyway? They should locate on the Interstate about 1/4 mile into Indiana, and give IL residents a way to flip the IL legislature the bird on both the 2A infringements AND the sales tax! Actually, make that 2 miles across the state line, so the IL state troopers can't sit just inside IL, watch who goes into the store, and find some excuse to pull them over and search them when they drive back across the line.
Chicago Democratic Machine + Most people in Chicago couldn't care less about rights as long as the welfare and the cushy city jobs keep coming. I used to think NYC was the absolute worst place to live if you cared about your rights, but Chicago is trying to take first place.