You may remember the enormous outcry when a Springfield Armory’ and Rock River Arms-paid lobbyist brokered a big box retailer and manufacturer carve-out deal with the Illinois legislature that enabled the progress of a gun dealer licensing law. A law carefully designed to . . .
increase the cost of doing business for independent gun dealers and intrude upon Illinois residents’ gun rights — notably by requiring all gun sales to be videotaped. Thanks to grassroots opposition, led in part by a semi-penitent Springfield Armory and Rock River Arms, the law was shelved. Not killed. Shelved. Now it’s back.
Here’s the Illinois State Rifle Association’s call to arms [via ammoland.com] to defeat the resurrected legislation:
SB1657 Willis – Gun Dealer Licensing:
This is the legislation that would force your favorite gun store to close under a mountain of new regulations. This bill will affect your ability to buy firearms or ammunition in Illinois. Never mind the weight of all the federal regulations that gun dealers and gun owners must deal with, your retailer and you will have more Illinois regulations and fees now too.
The bill as amended passed out of the Senate on a 30-21 vote in the spring session, and was never called for a House vote. The push is on this week to try to pass this bill
Recent media attention, including Chicago’s report about traces of recovered firearms, falsely paint a narrative trying to drive an additional, unneeded, level of licensing for firearms dealers. In a move defying logic, the bills specifically carves out big box stores that sell firearms, giving them an unfair advantage over your smaller, local firearms retailer.
SB333 Harmon – SFA1 – Details to try to get Gun Dealer Licensing to pass
This amended shell bill would water down of a few of the details in SB1657, in order to ease opposition to Gun Dealer Licensing. In reality, it is a delaying tactic only, putting off the expensive privacy-invading video recording of all activity in the store, and starting off the cost of licensing too low to support the expensive implementation of yet another state government program. In other words, the true cost of compliance would come into play shortly after enacting dealer licensing.
All gun dealers are already federal firearms licensees, subject to extensive regulation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (and Really Big Fires). This law would add another layer of bureaucracy to the free exercise of the Second Amendment-protected right to keep and bear arms. By yet another group of bureaucrats who are sworn enemies of that right.
The fight is on. Again. Watch this space.
Another thought….
Locking guns up is theorizing that reducing the number of guns will reduce the violent crime rate. Has this theory not already been proven wrong and the number of guns owned is up by 100 million just in the past decade and Violent crime rate have continued to drop?
What kind of bullet proof vest did the shooter wear? Soft body armor level 3a (or lower) vest like a police vest or flak jacket where 5.56 zips right through? Or a plate carrier with level 3 or 4 hard body armor plates that are rifle rated (but leave the whole stomach region unprotected)?
It would make sense not to aim on a plate carrier, but it only covers half the torso, shooting to the head or tummy is still possible. Soft body armor? Give it as much 223 as you have, it will kill him just fine.
Many handguns are stolen from automobiles. It’s time to put much bigger penalties on crooks for auto burglary and theft. Right now it is pretty much a slap on the wrist.
Quit blaming the object and go after the perps!
So Devin Kelley was a “fundamentalist evangelical athiest”. All he needs is a (D) after his name.
I knew I’d seen that Texas killer before…
https://youtu.be/XGvuyT32Uwc
Be it an AR or a more looking hunting rifle. All are capable of more rounds than 5. If your going to close it down to 5. People can reload those mags fast into the rifle, so really makes no sense.
This is just silly, games are for 14 year olds. Far too many things to do in life than be stuck staring at a monitor or a TV. Please, no more silliness like this!!!
Devin Kelley may not have been court ordered, Im pretty sure it’s, Voluntary, court recommended, and court ordered. The Court Ordered is the big one, Voluntary admission probably doesn’t have locked doors, court recommended pretty lenient after two weeks, court ordered your fucked. Colorful past, I was court recommended to the biggest state mental institution in this state, after two weeks, to escape all I had to do was walk off. So Kelley’s “escape” maybe wasn’t all that Alcatraz rubber dingy. Don’t know.