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Daley Attacks Trap Shooting - And Loses
Illinois State Rifle Association | 29 November 2001 | Illinois State Rifle Association

Posted on 11/29/2001 1:27:04 PM PST by Ford Fairlane

DALEY ADMINISTRATION ATTACKS TRAPSHOOTING – JEOPARDIZING $40M IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

CONTACT: Richard Pearson, Illinois State Rifle Association, (815) 635-3198

WEB SITE: http://www.isra.org SPRINGFIELD, IL - - The following was released today by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA):

As expected, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and Cook County State’s Attorney Dick Devine flexed their political muscles in an attempt to impede development of a world-class trap shooting facility in southern Illinois.

Earlier this year, the prestigious Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA) announced that it would move its headquarters and museum from Vandalia, Ohio to a location near Sparta, Illinois. The new 1,300-acre headquarters would include state-of-the-art trapshooting, skeet shooting, and sporting clays facilities. The site would also host the renowned Grand American trapshooting tournament beginning in 2004.

The ATA’s move to Sparta would provide a much-needed shot in the arm to the local economy with an initial boost of approximately $40 million. Additional long-term economic benefits would come in the form of tourist dollars and jobs for local residents.

Politically motivated meddling on the part of Daley and Devine placed Sparta’s good fortune in jeopardy.

In order for the ATA facility to be successful, certain improvements to the Illinois Firearm Owners’ Identification (FOID) Act would be required. Such improvements would allow out-of-state residents to purchase ammunition while taking part in competitive events at the ATA facility. Without such improvements to the FOID Act, the ATA facility might not be viable.

In testimony before a Senate committee today, lobbyists representing Daley and Devine expressed their unequivocal opposition to these reasonable improvements to the FOID Act. Later, from the floor of the House, Daley political allies made unsubstantiated claims that implementing the proposed improvements would lead to more crime and violence on our streets.

In its wisdom, the Illinois House voted 90 to 23 today in favor of implementing these important improvements to the FOID Act.

“The improvements to the FOID Act passed today by the House will greatly benefit law-abiding trap shooters while in no way hindering the state’s ability to keep guns out of the hands of criminals,” commented ISRA president Richard Pearson. “We fully expected Daley and Devine to run interference against these proposed improvements. Woefully unable to contain violent crime in Chicago, Daley and Devine would have liked the good people of Sparta to take it on the chin.”

“For years we’ve heard Daley administration officials crow about how they support hunters and sportsmen,” continued Pearson. “But when the world’s foremost trapshooting association seeks beneficial improvements to the FOID Act, Daley and his cronies do all they can to interfere. The Daley administration’s testimony before the Senate today is yet another expression of Daley’s promise that, if it were up to him, nobody would have guns.”

“I’d say that the 90-23 vote today in the Democratically-controlled House will serve as a painful reminder to Mayor Daley that not all share his disdain for the shooting sports and the people who practice them.”

The ISRA is the state’s leading advocate of safe, lawful and responsible firearms ownership. For nearly a century, the ISRA has represented the interests of over 1.5 million law-abiding Illinois firearm owners.


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To: Lazamataz
Daley & Devine had about 20 - 30 gun control bills they tried to get passed statewide last year.

And Devine is running for governor.

21 posted on 11/29/2001 2:42:13 PM PST by Ford Fairlane
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To: Ford Fairlane
Is this article implying that a non-resident of Illinois is not allowed to buy ammunition in that state?
22 posted on 11/29/2001 4:07:36 PM PST by William Tell
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To: William Tell
The law is sort of wierd. If I remember right, it reads that you must have a valid foid to purchase or posess firearms or ammunition, the exception being if you hold a valid non resident hunting permit. There are also exceptions for non-residents traveling with firearms and for an FFL selling to an out of state resident (for example in a border town). Illinois has reciprocity agreements aith all the bordering states for non resident purchases of long guns (and probably ammo) but if you are not from a bordering state you are out of luck.

Illinois weapons laws are so confusing that most law enforcement officers dont even properly understand them.

23 posted on 11/29/2001 4:24:36 PM PST by Ford Fairlane
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To: Lazamataz
You think YOU guys have it rough. Live in New York!!! In order to own a handgun AT ALL, you must have a pistol permit.

Actually, we in Chicago are allowed to own a properly registered handgun, but we are not allowed to store, carry, have, hold, possess, wield, cache, date, juggle, or play drop the pistol with a handgun anywhere within the city limits.

Since I live so close to Cabrini, I can't tell you how comforting it is to know that those apparent ruffians I frequently see are restricted by law from using firearms in their criminal enterprises.

24 posted on 11/29/2001 5:01:14 PM PST by Fifth Business
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