Illinois pards

[Rye Miles #13621]

http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/2013/5/illinois-concealed-carry-bill-with-statewide-preemptio

 

 

sorry link don't work. (??????)

[Buck D. Law, SASS #62183]

Passed Illinois House 85-30. That is good news and I hope a sign of what is to come in the Senate. Woo hoo!

[John Boy]

http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/2013/5/illinois-right-to-carry-legislation-endangered-in-springfield.aspx

[Guest jeweler jim]

SPRINGFIELD – With just days to go before the scheduled adjournment
of their spring session, Illinois lawmakers felt their way forward
Wednesday, inching toward compromise on allowing citizens to carry guns
in public.
The House and Senate are at
odds: Each chamber has adopted its own plan to answer the dilemma with
little hope that the other chamber will go along.

Copied from one of the local papers. There is the distinct possibility that nothing will be passed. Said that from day one and then we'll have to get someone arrested for a test case in carrying (Constitutional Carry) without any law to govern. Only time will tell... lots of time... When everyone started to celebrate the fact that we got concealed carry I suggested not holding your breath.

 

Senate version is a piece of excrement and the House version while not great is the least smelling of the two.

 

My opinion only as I sit here with one concealed and one openly shown.

 

As above ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ

[Utah Bob #35998]

Keep up the pressure!

[Blackwater 53393]

Looks like the IL. legislature passed a substantive handgun carry bill last evening by a large majority, enough to overide a gubernatorial veto! The legislature adjourned, so if the gov. decides to veto the bill it could be stalled until they reconvene. He might find himself in contempt of federal court.

 

 

We'll see!!

[Guest jeweler jim]

Tick toc, tick toc &drip, drip, drip. June 9th approaches...

[Curley Fryes]

If it does go through, they'll be millions of Illinoisans that don't have FOID cards applying for them, and millions of Illinoisans that DO have FOID cards and the training applying for CC permit. It going to take a looonnng time to get a permit.

[Col. Nathan C. Riddles, SASS # 7462]

Below is an email I just received from the 2nd Amendment Foundation:

SAF LAUDS ILLINOIS LAWMAKERS ON CCW BILL FORCED BY LANDMARK LAWSUIT

BELLEVUE, WA — The Second Amendment Foundation said Friday evening that adoption by Illinois lawmakers of the state Firearm Concealed Carry Act is a “good step” toward bringing the Prairie State in line with the rest of the nation, and that it “would not have happened without our federal lawsuit in Moore v. Madigan.”

“It is a shame that this had to go right down to the wire,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, “but the important thing is that Illinois citizens will now have a law that makes it possible for them to exercise their right to bear arms outside the home for personal protection. This is why we went to court in the first place; to secure for Illinois residents the same rights enjoyed by citizens in the other 49 states.”

Under the new law, both residents and non-residents may apply for Illinois carry licenses. The new license will be valid for a period of five years. There are provisions that do allow law enforcement agencies to object to the issuance of a license, but there is also a mechanism by which those objections are reviewed by a Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board.

The new law has a 16-hour training requirement for new license applications, and a three-hour refresher for license renewals. There are also prohibitions on carry into certain locations.

“While this new law is not perfect,” he said, “it’s one giant step protecting the human right of self-defense.”

“This Act will give Illinois citizens a great opportunity to demonstrate to reluctant lawmakers that concealed carry can work as it has been working in other states,” Gottlieb observed. “A bright new day is dawning for the good people of Illinois who have waited patiently for years to see this happen.”

[Dusty Balz, SASS#46599]

If it does go through, they'll be millions of Illinoisans that don't have FOID cards applying for them, and millions of Illinoisans that DO have FOID cards and the training applying for CC permit. It going to take a looonnng time to get a permit.

 

 

Not to toss water on the fire, given the way the scumbag politician work, you will wait two years for a FOID card and then another 3 years to get a CCW. All while the scurry to try and change the law.

 

Keep the fight pards

[Guest jeweler jim]

As they say... "The devil is in the details." Will wait for the definition or what will be required in the training and how long to get the approval from the state bulls. The FIOD card is now taking minimum two to three months for what is suppose to be four to six weeks. you don't suppose that the wait to get the card will increase do you? Also they are suppose to work out the "new" ID that will incorporate the drivers license, FOID and concealed carry into one ID with or without the concealed carry in it. How long do you think that will take.

 

Personally I'd like to see Quinn refuse to sign it so we could go to "constitutional carry," but that would be to much to hope for.