Todd Vandermyde (not shown) is to realpolitik what Texas is to pretty women. Or something like that. To land The Land of Lincoln a concealed carry law that isn’t gun control in disguise, Todd’s been fighting the good fight in Springfield. His job was made harder by the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear a case re: New York’s “good and substantial reason” provision in their concealed carry legislation. Well that’s Gov. Pat Quinn’s story, anyway. chicagotribune.com reports that Quinn’s still urging Attorney General Madigan to appeal a concealed carry mandate from a federal appeals panel to the Supremes. In the run-up to the June 9 deadline, Todd files this interim report via [ammoland.com] . . .
Last week we spent a lot of time working on killing off HB-2265. A bill that would set up a mandatory 3 year minimum sentence for an AG-UUW.
What might seem like an unconventional pairing, Governor Quinn’s office has been engaged in helping kill this proposal by Mayor Emanuel due to its nearly $1 BILLION cost to the state.
Mayor Emanuel has taken to calling legislators personally to try and sway them, while city lobbyists have taken to portraying anyone opposing the measure as soft on crime.
This is very simply a 2013 version of the Safe Neighborhoods fight of 2000 only it’s on steroids. We have a mayor who acts like a petulant child demanding he get things his way and stamping his feet.
In putting the votes together it was a simple math equation that said hanging on to a majority of republicans, along with downstate democrats, and adding in the black caucus made it nearly impossible for the City to find the 60 votes to pass the bill. While we have tried to tell them how to fix it, they have refused.
We start with the fact that the state has taken little to no action on passing a carry law to address the Court’s ruling in Moore/Shepard. They have done nothing to address the unconstitutional finds of the Court on the basic UUW and AG-UUW statute. Not to mention the ruling by a Cook County Judge in Mosely where not only did he find that the statute was unconstitutional it also violated the disproportionate penalties rule.
After tying them in a knot all week, they decided to go over to the senate and try to add their language as a floor amendment to SB-1003 late Friday. Same stuff, different chamber.
All the while the City continues to demand that they get to set their own rules for carry in the city and that the carry law contain no preemption language. My response – “Yea Right”. Add to this that the Senate continues to hold secret talks about a carry bill and the House seems to have put on hold any more floor debates.
Add to the mix talks of drafting a bill dealing with mental health issues and FOID reporting and Sheriff Dart’s idea about picking up revoked FOID cards and firearms reporting. Next week we will have another run at things and we’ll see where it all is going.
Call your state senators starting Monday and tell them to oppose Mayor Emanuel’s proposal for SB1003.
Call your state representative and tell them to continue to oppose Mayor Emanuel’s Billion dollar boondoggle, until concerns about out of state gun owners, and the carry issues have been addressed.
Continue to call your reps and senators and tell them
NO BAD CARRY BILL.
(Carry legislation must include shall-issue, statewide preemption, carry on public transportation, and commercially available training.)
Session is far from over with about 6 weeks left. We should take heart that we have made it this far without any significant anti-gun proposals being passed.
As I said, more will come, and we will have to defeat it as well as work on passing a carry law. I fully believe that we will have to kill a bad carry bill to prove we can and are serious about what we want and fought to get.
Left that state where I was born and raised 3 years ago and haven’t looked back!
Reid is NOT called “…Happy Harry…” here in NV. More often than not he is called “…STINKY PINKY…”! He DIDNOT walk to school from his home in Searchlight, and the only time he boxed was when he could fight a girl. Even then he got his ass beat!
I’m glad we’ve got Vandermyde here in Illinois.
If he weren’t here, we would have been NY, CO, CT a long time ago, only worse.
John
It was NOT gun powder!
BTW the BPD has already stated that it aint their fault TWO bombs were planted on a sidewalk and in a store front in plain view and no security team checked it out!
The president has stated, (in an emotionless reciting of empty rhetoric) that Justice will be done (as it has been done in the Benghazi Massacre)
The Westburo Baptist Church says the death of 8 YOs and 144 injured is caused by “gays” and that God delivered the bombs.
Both statements hold equal merit in my mind
I have been surfing online more than 3 hours today, yet I never found
any interesting article like yours. It’s pretty worth enough for me. In my view, if all site owners and bloggers made good content as you did, the net will be a lot more useful than ever before.
Looks like a rave video.
Drop some ecstasy, grab your binkie and hit the range.
I’ve always kinda preferred live prairie dogs for reactive targets. The sheer acrobatics involved are priceless. There’s nothing like having a ton of fun and leaving a courtesy smorgasbord for the hawks, badgers and coyotes. No clean-up!
It’s Silent Bob!
Why do I suspect that the people who will hang the politicians one day will get to Harry Reid quickly?
How is this suppose to keep our kids safe in school?
I’ve been utilizing my ccw permit here for years, it’s called the second amendment. Hopefully now, however, I’ll be able to pack something a bit more substantial then my P3AT, and not have to worry about printing.
One can hope.
Actually, I think what she is saying is pretty close to the truth. The centerpiece IS background checks, but the Dems will try to slip in an AWB and Hi-cap mag ban under the table as an amendment. So, on the surface, those rejecting it will look like they are rejecting background checks, even if it is the amendments that really draw their ire.
Her assertion that, “Democrats believe Republicans will have a hard time explaining why they voted against legislation that secures more money for school safety and closes the so-called gun show loophole.” is certainly true. It is nothing new that pro-gun people always have an uphill battle trying to explain their views to people who refuse to listen.
Who are the
hoeswomen?I’ve been playing the 3gun game for a couple years now. My reloads are a disaster in my 870, but I and everyone knows this is what wins shotgun COF’s. My spring (clipped/shortened) is still too strong, I have poor shell-feeding technique and no viable unloaded shell management other than a loose pouch. Why haven’t I corrected this?
Someone needs to remind them that they have officer discretion and they can choose not to enforce it if they don’t want.
If they enforce it, therefor they agree with it.