mauserme Posted March 3, 2024 at 11:35 PM Share Posted March 3, 2024 at 11:35 PM Witness Slips Needed! Taking a break from their main election year concerns about retaining office, those hoping to further ignore the Supreme Court will return to Springfield this week. Never content in their efforts to diminish the Constitution they swore to uphold, several bills posted to the House Judiciary – Criminal Committee hearing 3/5, need our attention. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v Bruen the US Supreme Court tells us that laws affecting the Second Amendment are preemptively unconstitutional if no analogous law existed at the time of the founding, circa 1791. Serial numbers were not common on firearms in 1791. They were not required under Federal law until 1968. Yet Representative Croke hopes to increase the penalties for violating an already unconstitutional law from a misdemeanor to a felony, making a person possessing an “unserialized” firearm ineligible to own firearms at all. We oppose HB4550 Crim Cd – Unserialied Firearms, as any freedom loving person should. In DC v Heller, the Supreme Court instructs us that the government may not require firearms be locked away, yet HB5065 Crim Cd – Safe Storage Firearms would require just that.. Yes, there is an exception for a gun in immediate possession, but Heller included no such prerequisite, and there is no analogue in the founding era. In our last alert we spoke of the Bridge Too Far that is the Protect Illinois Communities Act. With his HB5178 Elec Cd – Firearms Polling Place, “Bridge-Too-Far-Bob” Morgan would like to double down on existing law prohibiting firearm possession in “Any building or portion of a building under the control of a unit of local government.” Or, perhaps proposing duplicative law is simply a reminder of his deeply flawed understanding of this subject matter. With HB5442 Firearm Owners ID – Fees, Bridge-Too-Far-Bob seeks to increase the cost of gun licensing in Illinois, a license and fee scheme that can find no historical analogue and is countenanced by no other enumerated right. And, newly appointed Representative Muhl tells us in HB5558 Crim Cd – Lost Firearms that those who's lost gun has been recovered should be fined up to $1,000 and possibly lose their FOID and CCL. During the founding era folks would celebrate getting their lost property back. In today's upside down world, some now see that as reason for punishment. There is a movement among anti-gun forces to abrogate NYSRPA v Bruen's requirement to remain faithful to Constitutional principles. It is our job to remind them that when they do not, they may face another bridge too far. Join us in our opposition to the following bills. File Witness Slips Now! Detailed Witness Slip Instructions Log On to the ILGA Dashboard In order to avoid completing each field manually, at the top right Log on to your ILGA Dashboard or Create a New Account if you haven't already created one, then return to this email and click on the links for each witness slip. ### HB4550 Crim Cd – Unserialized Firearms OPPONENT! Read More About This Bill File an OPPONENT Witness Slip Track the Witness Slips HB5065 Crim Cd – Safe Storage Firearms OPPONENT! Read More About This Bill File an OPPONENT Witness Slip Track the Witness Slips HB5178 Elec Cd – Firearms Polling Place OPPONENT! Read More About This Bill File an OPPONENT Witness Slip Track the Witness Slips HB5442 Firearm Owners ID - Fees OPPONENT! Read More About This Bill File an OPPONENT Witness Slip Track the Witness Slips HB5558 Crim Cd – Lost Firearms OPPONENT! Read More About This Bill File an OPPONENT Witness Slip Track the Witness Slips Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT1 Posted March 4, 2024 at 12:12 AM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 12:12 AM Trying to remember how many of these I've filed, dozens. IL doesn't care about them, and just flat out ignores the courts unless there is a penalty, and there isn't one for ignoring bruen apparently or we wouldn't have the ban we are now under. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear226 Posted March 4, 2024 at 12:17 AM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 12:17 AM done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stigz Posted March 4, 2024 at 12:33 AM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 12:33 AM Done. It sure would be nice to be able to support a bill for once in this state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk5 Posted March 4, 2024 at 01:54 AM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 01:54 AM Done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith44 Posted March 4, 2024 at 01:56 AM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 01:56 AM Done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dogsoldier321 Posted March 4, 2024 at 02:16 AM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 02:16 AM Done. Thanks Mauser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rangerdeepv Posted March 4, 2024 at 02:17 AM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 02:17 AM Done.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTHunter Posted March 4, 2024 at 02:27 AM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 02:27 AM Done X 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearhead Posted March 4, 2024 at 03:23 AM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 03:23 AM Done x2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bmyers Posted March 4, 2024 at 11:41 AM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 11:41 AM Done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilJim Posted March 4, 2024 at 12:23 PM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 12:23 PM Done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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3ddiver Posted March 4, 2024 at 02:11 PM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 02:11 PM On 3/3/2024 at 6:33 PM, stigz said: Done. It sure would be nice to be able to support a bill for once in this state. Even just one. It is tiring always playing defense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve51 Posted March 4, 2024 at 02:52 PM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 02:52 PM Done X 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
springfield shooter Posted March 4, 2024 at 03:05 PM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 03:05 PM Done for all. If I may, respectfully......Please don't get discouraged. Us discouraged is just what the anti-2A side wants. Thanks Mauser, and to all there at Illinois Carry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framos242 Posted March 4, 2024 at 03:22 PM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 03:22 PM Done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vodoun da Vinci Posted March 4, 2024 at 03:52 PM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 03:52 PM Done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veela Posted March 4, 2024 at 04:19 PM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 04:19 PM Done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felixd Posted March 4, 2024 at 04:19 PM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 04:19 PM Thank you once again for the alert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albike Posted March 4, 2024 at 04:29 PM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 04:29 PM Done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illinois Sucks Posted March 4, 2024 at 05:43 PM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 05:43 PM Done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papa Posted March 4, 2024 at 11:19 PM Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 11:19 PM Thanks Mauser for making it so easy to file. I'm done on all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauserme Posted March 4, 2024 at 11:39 PM Author Share Posted March 4, 2024 at 11:39 PM Thanks to everyone who filed against these bills! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yettiblood Posted March 5, 2024 at 12:29 AM Share Posted March 5, 2024 at 12:29 AM Done. All Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcspider Posted March 5, 2024 at 02:46 AM Share Posted March 5, 2024 at 02:46 AM done, all of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mab22 Posted March 5, 2024 at 04:29 AM Share Posted March 5, 2024 at 04:29 AM Done. Sometimes I think we need another tack as I don’t know how effective this is, they just don’t care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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