As Chicago-native Emilay Zanotti tweeted:
Oh, Illinois. Wasn’t one Supreme Court smack down on guns enough?
— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) January 3, 2013
Nope, apparently it wasn’t. Because if these new gun restrictions go into place, you can betchurass it’s going back to the Supreme Court:
Illinois Senate Democrats advanced legislation late Wednesday to restrict semiautomatic weapons and high-capacity magazines, pressing forward with new gun control measures in the waning days of the session over the objections of firearms groups.
Amid the developments, the Illinois State Rifle Association issued an “urgent alert” to its members warning them that Democratic legislators were trying to push through last-minute anti-gun legislation.
“There would be no exemptions and no grandfathering,” the group stated in its alert. “You would have a very short window to turn in your guns to the state police and avoid prosecution.”
A Senate committee approved two bills, one dealing with the weapons and the other with magazines. Democratic supporters could face a tough sell in the full Senate.
One measure would ban the possession, delivery, sale and transfer of semiautomatic handguns and rifles. People who currently own such weapons could keep them but would have to register them. The bill would allow semiautomatic weapons to be used at shooting ranges, but those facilities would be regulated.
Also banned by the proposed bill would be pump shotguns. Which means that ALL semiautomatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns will be banned; and all pump shotguns and rifles will be illegal.
In other words, 98% of the guns I currently own would be deemed “illegal” in Illinois. Again — there is simply no way I would volunteer to register or get rid of any of my guns. You know — because of the tragic canoe accident. You know — the one that sadly resulted in all of my beloved guns sinking to the bottom of the deepest part of the bay.
The bills, HB815 and HB1263, would ban 80% of all guns in Illinois.
I’m sure Chicago gangbangers, drug dealers and other assorted thugs will be lining up to be the first to register their weapons. And will now start to obey the even stricter gun laws that obviously weren’t strict enough to keep Chicago from becoming the most dangerous city in America.
Just a reminder on the consequences suffered by Chicago’s already too-draconian restrictions on guns:
In 2012, 532 people were murdered in the city of Chicago, according to statistics compiled by the Crime in Chicago website. The number of people murdered the year before was 441, meaning in the city of Chicago, murders have increased by 91 from 2011 to 2012.
The website also claims that, through December 25, 2012, there 2,670 people were shot in Chicago last year. That’s also an increase from the year before, when 2,217 people were shot in Chicago that year.
All this ban would do — in addition to violating the second amendment — is to ensure that criminals continue to be better armed than the society they intend to victimize.
Gun manufactures in Illinois have already threatened to leave the area if laws limiting guns are put in place. ArmaLite owner Mark Westrom told FoxNews.com that he’s been fielding offers from at least two others states to move his operation if gun control laws in Illinois are pushed through.
Might I suggest moving to Texas?
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I am confident this will be short lived! SCOTUS will have none of it. I am not sure the reason Illinois pols are pursuing this after Chicago got crushed the last time? The only said thing is that they are wasting my tax dollars pursuing a law that will ultimately be judged unconstitutional.
Thats what everyone thought about obamacare also. listen posting bout your hate of this coming law will make u easy targets for the coming dictotorial government.
I wonder if your IP address would indicate you’re in the United Kingdom? Gotta say; I’m looking forward to January 29th coverage, can’t wait to see bones declare “she’s dead Jim”
They are violating not just the US constitution with this shit. they are violating their OWN constitution..
SECTION 22. RIGHT TO ARMS
Subject only to the police power, the right of the
individual citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be
infringed.
everyone south of I-40 and between the Mississippi river and the Rockies thought that obamacare would be ruled as unconstitutional once it hit the supreme court. well we see how far thinking got us. now as for the gun rights. England and Russia have both had their rights pulled from them in the name of safety of the society. which started in the USA when a woman sued a restaurant when she spilled coffee in her lap on the way out of the parking lot ’cause it was too hot.We can’t have safety and freedom. one or the other. The Government must protect you from yourself
Re the McDonald’s lawsuit: McD refused to pay for a $20k hospital bill for the second degree burns an elderly woman received when the coffee cup collapsed in on itself b/c it was 20-30 degrees higher than the industry standard. McD had already been put on notice that their coffee was resulting in serious burns but they settled out of court. Instead of correcting the error, they continued serving it at a dangerous temperature and then played hard ball with this woman. Fuck them.
Me thinks Mickey D should serve coffee COLD. That will teach people a lesson, heh to not confuse a hot beverage with a cold one
No, they should serve it at a temperature that does not cause the cup to collapse in on itself and give people 2nd degree burns. That elderly woman suffered and required skin grafts & numerous operations to debride her wounds. Your inability to acknowledge another person’s suffering is noted.
What about personal responsibility do you not understand!!! No wonder there are signs on everything nowadays because people will play dumb just to litigate for the moola! Youn have noted nothing about what I believe suffering is!!! Only idiots would assume that coffee is not hot and not handle the cup with care!!! You are an opportunist looking only for monetary gains. Frivolous lawsuits with enormous jury verdicts rewarding people’s stupidity is what’s ruining this great nation of ours!!!
I’ve noted that you are an asshole and not a very bright one, either. You buy a fucking cup of coffee you expect to be able to hold the fucking cup and not have it collapse in on itself because the coffee is 20-30 degrees above the industry standard. There was nothing frivolous about this lawsuit.
Be careful at home next time you brew a cup in your Kourig! Maybe if it’s hot (as it should be) you can litigate Kourig for say 20 mil. I say the best chances you will get here are if you litigate your dumbass! What a pathetic apologist for stupidity you are. Are you teaching this to your kids? I never spilled coffe on myself yet because unlike people like you I have a functioning brain and use it.
The fucking cup semi-melted, you jackass! Every time you post, you prove yourself even more stupid.
Okay tort – happy lunatic. I will grant you that a cup can “semi” melt. Can we prevent ourselves from getting a hot beverage spill in our lap? Did the cup “semi” melt in say 5 seconds, 22 seconds or a longer time – this to notice the semi-melting process if you will. When this litigant touched the cup while at the counter did she not feel it too hot for her? You and I would, correct! If so would you still attempt to carry it by hand (or on a tray)? I say this litigant felt the cup as too hot while at the counter and yet did not call the server’s attention to it and attempted to lift and carry the too-hot-for-her cup of coffee. Finally when this cup “semi” melted, than she had that eureka moment. Too little too late, heh. Two words – TORT REFORM!!!
Fuck off. I’m now convinced that there is some truth in what your fangirl, julia, says about you.
You just can’t handle the truth Anon, CAN YOU?
Me thinks you do not voice disagreement in any coherent shape or form. Counteract my assertions with thought-out arguments. But you can’t do that Julia, heh?
All you do is insult me and my family as your form of disagreement. About you being a stalker; how many forums have you visited where you are spewing insults about me/my family so vile and angry they all thinke of you as someone who should exist in a straight-jacket? Does that not define a stalker. A side note: all the forums you have visited are now deleting your idiotic comments about me. They all stand with me against you. Now, how does that make you feel?
You have fixated on me in a way that only indicates you are severely disturbed a person. Please get some help before you totally implode!!!
Thomas? You’ve got a fan girl? When did you get a fan girl? I’m confused…;P
*poof*
Yeap Sean – and a cyber stalker at that!!!
Daaayyyummm.
Sean, she is as nutty as squirrel shit in a pecan orchard.
This is just another attack on our, Second Amendment Rights perpetrated by this evil government who will use Chicago or other vastly overcrowded crime stricken cities as models for a much bolder agenda, that will indeed affect all of us, when push comes to shove in the next few months..
The only thing this government fears is a armed militia of American citizens, ready to take it to the next level…? “Revolution…”
Government statistics often exaggerate especially when it comes to those homicides and them casualties of war too… I remember reading some of those Gov statistics back in the 60s.. Some claiming as little as 20 American soldiers dying per day in Vietnam, when the number was much much higher…
This wicked government of today will seize any and all opportunity’s to exploit our constitutional rights with some quite destructive agendas, that are alien to many of us who remember growing up in the JFK years… We have foolishly allowed Satan to have the upper hand in a vast spectrum of that lawless political machine…. These politicians who seek to destroy us from within have become slaves to the God of this world, for they are indeed spiritually dead and demonically influenced creatures who wouldn’t hesitate too spit on the graves of our founding fathers…
There are millions of people on this Internet making tens of millions of comments that will never be read by anyone… However, I am one person out of those millions who now post an image taken many years ago with a camcorder that I believe to be, “The God of this world…”
Too those of you who are not spiritually blinded you will see this creature for what it is… Others’ simply will skeptically disapproved of it thus, calling it fake… We are always open to discussion for our different views on weird stuff….
However, just out of the cameras narrow range just about this startling image were the words O.b.a.m. These appeared briefly high in the sky just before this image… all disappeared in a blinding flash of blueish green lightning seen by thousands of residents in the city of Milford…
Ladies and gentlemen I give you, the image of the beast? The Lord of this world…:evil:
Where is the camcorder image of which you spoke?
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