ILLINOIS gun owners : ACTION NEEDED

[melensdad]

Saw this on the Illinois State Rifle Association Site.

URGENT ALERT - YOUR IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED

DALEY FORCES LAUNCH RENEWED ATTACK ON YOUR GUN RIGHTS
LATEST EFFORT WOULD SHUT DOWN ALL GUN SHOPS

Late last week, Daley sympathizers in the Illinois House passed HB180 out of the Rules Committee and on to the floor of the House. A vote on

HB 180 is expected as early as this coming Tuesday.
Should you be worried about HB 180? ABSOLUTELY!

HB 180 would include the following:

• 1. Require all Illinois gun shops to secure a license to operate issued by the Illinois State Police. Under this bill, the State Police “may” issue a license to a gun shop and would establish all rules and regulations required to keep the license. You know what that means – either nobody would be granted a license, or those who did get licenses would be so burdened by regulations that they could not make a profit. BOTTOM LINE: HB 180 would shut down all gun shops in Illinois.
• 2. HB 180 requires that all your gun purchases be registered with the state police. BOTTOM LINE: HB 180 is a licensing/registration scheme designed to keep track of how many guns you own so they may be easily confiscated at a later date.
• 3. HB 180 allows any police officer in the state go to any gun shop in the state to conduct so-called record reviews. BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago CAGE Unit could, and would, inspect gun shops across the state doing these record reviews. Shop owners, no matter where they are located, would be forced to cooperate with the CAGE unit or lose their licenses. The true purpose of these visits is to cost gun shops time and money and ultimately cause them to go out of business.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO SAVE YOUR GUNS:

1. Starting Monday morning, call your State Representative and politely tell him/her that you oppose HB 180 and that you would like to see him/her vote against the bill when it comes to the House Floor. If you do now know who your state representative is, go to the following web site and follow the directions for looking up your legislators: Illinois State Board of Elections. If you know who your State Representative is, you can look up the phone numbers of their Springfield and district offices here.

2. Pass this alert on to all your friends and family, ask them to make calls as well.

3. Please post this alert to any and all blogs and bulletin boards to which you may belong.

Thanks in advance for your help in this matter. The future of lawful gun ownership in Illinois depends on you!

Posted Mon Feb 8 05:43:45 CST 2010​

 

[jedi]

IL following the ways of CA!

Thanks for the update. Looks like with the Chicago case @ the supreme court they are figuring they are going to lose so they figure they move on to the next way to shoot us. (PUN intended).

 

[mrjarrell]

I always wanted to be a gun runner when I grew up. Looks like I might get a chance! Sweet!

 

[flagtag]

Why do you think we call IL the "Naziwannabe" state?!
And Chicago is "The People's Socialist Republik of Chicago" and Cook County is, of course, "Crook County".

 

[Buckaroo]

Sounds like they are nervous about the McDonald case!

Buckaroo

 

[spirit390]

That is why we call it the "peoples republic of illinois". Go figure the crooks in $hitcago run all the state. I really need to move just not cause of this but I'd like to someday own an AR70

 

[Bigum1969]

Stallinois. It smells being this close to them.

 

[rambone]

Bad times.

 

[Mike_M]

Let us not forget where BHO got all his political training.......

 

[flagtag]

Let us not forget where BHO got all his political training.......

Exactly!

 

[dustjunky2000]

I always wanted to be a gun runner when I grew up. Looks like I might get a chance! Sweet!

I'm with ya on that!

[FONT=georgia,palatino]"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." [/FONT]

 

[melensdad]

Here is an article from The Examiner which provides a bit more information.

Illinois declares war on gun ownership

February 8, 10:22 AM
Macon County Conservative Examiner
Robert Moon


The Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) is warning gun owners about a new attempt by the state legislature to quietly stifle gun ownership even further throughout the state, known as HB 180.

In what is already one of the most hostile anti-gun states in the country, this bill would impose sweeping new regulations on gun shops that would increase costs and excessively complicate the process of purchasing a firearm.

For instance, it would make even the very existence of all gun shops subject to the arbitrary whims of the Illinois State Police by creating yet another intrusive government licensing process in which the police would have sole discretion over who gets to sell guns. It would also require that all guns be registered with the state and enable any police officer anywhere to completely shut down a shop at will in order to conduct frivolous searches and "records reviews."

Never mind the staggering nationwide drop in crime that accompanied record gun sales in 2009 (as I noted here). 48 other states have figured out that an armed citizenry is the solution, rather than the problem, yet Democrats here in Illinois still continue to insist on disarming law-abiding citizens and treating our constitutional right to bear arms as some kind of scourge on humanity.

To fight back against this insanity, click here and tell your state representative to vote "NO" on HB 180 (scroll down). Click here to find your elected officials.

Also, be sure to join citizens from across the state in Springfield on March 10th to stand up for our gun rights.

 

[flagtag]

Please join us at this year's IGOLD (Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day) event on March 10th. Help us get Concealed Carry in our state.

If you click on the link above, you can "read all about it"! For those of you who don't want to drive that far, you can take a train or catch one of the busses at locations listed. There may be a small fee to board some of the busses, but the Danville/Tilton bus is "donation" only.

If you do decide to go - PLEASE - NO GUNS - Please. (No empty holsters either) If you go using your personal vehicle, please make sure that if you take a gun with you it is secured as described by law. (It would be better not to take one.) I understand you will feel vunerable.

You may make and bring signs (or carry your state flag), but they will not be allowed inside the Capitol Building. It would also be a good idea to leave your knives behind as well (The bus driver may store any guns/knives in the storage/luggage compartment on the bus if you wish. Our driver did so last year.)

You may speak to any of our "representatives" as well and tell them of your experiences carrying in IN. Let them know that the CITIZENS of IN support the CITIZENS of IL and that you are watching.

I hope to see you there. I will be taking the Danville/Tilton bus at the Gutterage Harley Davidson lot (South side) (IL route 1)

Please join us and let YOUR voices be heard along with ours.