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  1. I moved away from Illinois 5+ years ago. I'm guessing they don't know that I'm gone... Which is good, because in SC I can go into a gun store and point to a pistol and take it home with me. And, really, 90% of my collection is on the verboten list. Highly recommend y'all exit as able. My youngest went to college and we were gone.
  2. Good Lord. I just read through this: https://isp.illinois.gov/StaticFiles/docs/Home/AssaultWeapons/PICA Identification Guide.pdf Yeah, pretty much everything I own falls onto this list.
  3. Well, maybe not. It depends upon how badly those in power in the state want to make an example. It’s a state law - not a county law. And while there may be plenty of local sheriff’s that say they’re not going to spend time/money on enforcing state laws, there’s always someone, somewhere who will. And the ISP is the enforcement arm of the State. So, yeah, I think we can count on gestapo tactics. Hopefully not many, hopefully not widespread, but guaranteed there will be some.
  4. I’m too lazy to go and quote chapter and verse and am about to get roundly booed down, so take it for what’s it’s worth… 922 is all about “assembling” - doesn’t say anything about “possession”. There are literally dozens of pages like this on the internet… https://www.ar15.com/forums/Armory/Possessing-a-firearm-that-doesn-t-conform-to-922r-is-legal-/2-534639/. Yeah, I wouldn’t want to be a test case either. Having said that, how’s anybody gonna know if you don’t tell the cops a. You assembled it, and b. There are non-US parts in the gun. Your answer is “I didn’t assemble it” and “I was under the impression that all of the required parts were US made”. Sure, I suppose if a DA somewhere really wanted to nail you, he could go and a. Take the gun apart, b. Analyze all parts to determine if they were of non-US origin. And just how would be do that for non COI marked parts? And what about all the LE guns that were imported and sold to non-LE end users? I tend to fall in the camp that 922 is pretty much unenforceable.
  5. I left Illinois about five years ago… but had thought about it at least weekly for most of the thirty years that I was there. People don’t move because they have jobs, they have family there, they have kids in school, etc. I get it. Funny, when I left I was 54 and *everybody* I knew talked about “they can’t wait to get out of Illinois” but, you know, nobody did it for all of the reasons above. My catalyst was once my youngest went off to college. I literally dropped him off at college (1000 miles away) and then turned left and went to South Carolina. So… it was easy for me to go and the timing just worked out for my family. Yet… what if it hadn’t? At least 80% of my collection would be prohibited with these whacky new laws in Illinois. Sure, sure, you can “register” them and let the government know where they are and all. Gotta be safe. But how long before they decide they should start picking them up? And while many of us are gun people and technology people, what happens to the guy who was completely unaware of the registration thing? Of course ignorance of the law and all that… It seems there is a process in place to leave these items to your heirs - and there’s even a helpful little FAQ that says, “what if I inherit something that was not previously registered?” The ISP kindly suggests that you go ahead and submit a registration request. How much you wanna bet they’ll come get it? And potentially charge you with a crime. Forgetting for a moment about your fifth amendment rights to avoid a requirement to confess to a crime. The most interesting thing, of course - and this is super easy for me to say as I’m eating popcorn 1000 miles away - is what’s gonna happen come the deadline in January when only a fraction of those required to register actually do so? That’s when we’re gonna see the gestapo brush off that list they’re not supposed to have and start kicking in doors. Don’t like your neighbor? Drop a dime on him and call up the ISP and tell ‘em you know he has unregistered “"""assault weapons"""”. Scary stuff, I know. We all know that some folks are going to get nailed and made an example of to drive compliance. There may very well be a bunch of dead gestapo members once they start kicking in doors, but what about the guy that gets arrested? His defense should be, “no, didn’t know anything about the requirement to register an item I bought legally ten years ago…” and, even better, “since you guys knew where to come since you were keeping illegal lists, why wouldn’t you have just sent me a letter and picked up the phone and advised me that there was a change in the law? That would have been the neighborly thing to do.” I’m guessing that kinds of people who have already registered weren’t really gun people - or maybe they were the same kind of people who lined up for the covid shots. I dunno. I’m also guessing that a ton of people are never going to register. It’ll be interesting to see what happens. It was the highlight of my life to get the heck out of Illinois. Highly recommended - there are jobs and schools and all that in 49 other states.
  6. Got this via email a few minutes ago… Guess nobody told ISP I moved outta Illinois in 2019… Best. Move. Ever. I probably have 25+ guns in the safe that I bought mostly because I would walk into the LGS and point to one and say, “I’d like to take that one home today, please.” Good Lord, 90% of my stuff is on that stupid list you guys got going up there now. How’s that going? Timing is indeed everything.
  7. Got it the other day - good for the next ten years. And then, of course, I found the old one. Go figure.
  8. Lost my foid card and noticed it a few weeks ago. Went out to the ISP website and clicked on the "report lost or stolen" link and it walked me through the questions & had me upload a new photo. I definitely clicked on the lost/stolen link, yet the receipt that I received at the conclusion of the transaction said "payment received for NEW foid card". I didn't think much about it at the time, but did wonder whether they'd give me a replacement card for the remainder of the term left on the lost card (about three years remaining) or whether I'd get a new 10 years out of it. The fee was $10, plus a buck for paying with a credit card. I submitted the lost application on 2/14 and just happened to check the ISP site today. Shows my card as being active, issued yesterday for a period of ten years. So, pretty easy process. I'm sure it'll show up in the mail in a few days. Same number as my CCW (the prefix of 14 added to the original foid #). And the best part? It's my last foid card as I'm moving south in 2 years, 2 months, and nine days. Cannot freaken' wait.
  9. Too lazy to go through all the threads to see if this has been posted... envelope, letter, card, etc. http://www.smugmug.com/photos/i-m5wc3RZ/0/XL/i-m5wc3RZ-XL.jpg http://www.smugmug.com/photos/i-SH9fX4h/0/X2/i-SH9fX4h-X2.jpg http://www.smugmug.com/photos/i-nrWL7hq/0/X2/i-nrWL7hq-X2.jpg http://www.smugmug.com/photos/i-DQf6Nw7/0/X2/i-DQf6Nw7-X2.jpg
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