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The basic gist I get is that gun owners could get ensnared over innocent mistakes, but I'm not certain how that would play out in actual practice. Anyone have any clarification?
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SB1722 is the Mandatory Minimum sentencing enhancement bill.

There are a lot of things that could be said about it but the time for working against has passed, so I'm sticking with the specific question.

 

There are predicate offenses that, once convicted, qualifies the offender for roughly twice the minimum sentencing for more serious gun offenses than currently exist in law. One example of a predicate offense is use of illegal ammunition.

 

Illinois law prohibits most non-lead based ammunition for handguns. So an environmentally aware handgun hunter using lead alternative ammunition will qualify for 7 instead of 3 years for some later offenses. It doesn't really make sense to say you're guilty of some violation and should be punished, but you get punished more if you're an environmentalist.

 

From another point of view, some legislators recognize a basic truth about living in difficult areas - that truth being that some people carry who technically shouldn't. They might not have the funds to get a carry license or might not be able to take 2 days off for the training, or they might simply mistrust the process. Others might have been carrying so long they see no need to complicate it.

 

Some of those people are in a category that "carry for safety". They don't mean anyone any harm. They just want to get to work and back home again. There is a lot of concern on the part of some legislators to not involve people "who carry for safety" in any of this. And, while we don't condone the practice, we do share concerns about the potential to fill our prisons with people in that category instead of those that are causing the problems.

 

As I've said before, we all protect the group we call "our people". Well, our people are gun owners. Even those who "carry for safety".

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Illinois law prohibits most non-lead based ammunition for handguns.

 

 

excluding those handgun projectiles whose cores are composed of soft materials such as lead or lead alloys, zinc or zinc alloys, frangible projectiles designed primarily for sporting purposes, and any other projectiles or projectile cores that the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury finds to be primarily intended to be used for sporting purposes or industrial purposes or that otherwise does not constitute "armor piercing ammunition" as that term is defined by federal law.

 

If the ammo is legal in US, the ammo should be legal in Illinois.

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The basic gist I get is that gun owners could get ensnared over innocent mistakes, but I'm not certain how that would play out in actual practice. Anyone have any clarification?

If you read the bill, it is garbage...

 

Reduces sentencing for burglary...

 

And drugs, by changing school zones to schools occupied at the time of the offense and reducing the 1,000' perimeter to 500'.

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