More on the Illinois Gun Grab

Truly horrific, you all. Via Real JeffS yesterday:

…This is very serious. We are at DEFCON 1 in Illinois, folks.

MESSAGE FROM COMMITTEE DEMOCRATS: “Eliminating law-abiding gun owners is a good ‘first step’ towards a ‘civil society.’”
UPDATE: From a comment in another post:

There will be a floor vote on these issues as early as tomorrow. HB1263 (assault weapons ban) and HB 815 (magazine ban) have been passed out of committee and will be brought to the floor for a general vote by tomorrow morning. As written, the ban will outlaw not only most rifles and shotguns used for hunting and sporting purposes, but also most handguns used for home and self defense. There is very little time to contact your legislators and express your outrage at this blatant gun grab

ths update: More from Fox:

Illinois Dems advance gun control bills, firearms group warns of ‘no exemptions’

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.
National Rifle Association lobbyist Todd Vandermyde told lawmakers the bill would restrict about 75 percent of handguns and 50 percent of long guns in circulation today. He also said it would treat law-abiding gun owners like criminals, and is in conflict with Second Amendment rights upheld by the courts.

“I’ve never seen a piece of legislation that tramples on so many court decisions,” Vandermyde said.

4 Responses to “More on the Illinois Gun Grab”

1. JeffS says:

   January 3, 2013 at 10:44 am

   The fascists are on the march.

2. Kathy Kinsley says:

   January 3, 2013 at 5:45 pm

   Indeed they are.

3. Michael Lonie says:

   January 3, 2013 at 8:43 pm

   So, are they going to send the police and the Natinal Guard door-to-door to confiscate citizens’ personal property? Will they have warrants, or will they not bother with such an anachronistic, irrelevant relict of those dead whire men, the Founders? And will those confiscators arrive with guns out and threatening to shoot, as if they were muggers, burglars, thieves, or tax collectors?

   I’ll bet they don’t send the confiscators to gang-dominated areas.

4. leelu says:

   January 6, 2013 at 1:19 pm

   Court decisions! Screw the court decisions.

   I flies in the face of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution!!

   Sheesh, what a maroon.