Yeah, nobody saw this one coming:
Illinois’ new “assault weapon” and magazine ban is in effect, and on October 1, that state opened its registry for grandfathered weapons and magazines so that owners who already have legally purchased weapons can register them with the state. Illinois gun owners, of course, rushed to register their weapons and magazines in compliance with the new law.
Just kidding. Almost nobody has registered anything.
As part of the Protect Illinois Communities Act that was enacted earlier this year, the registration portal for firearms owners in Illinois that own certain semi-automatic firearms, accessories and ammunition opened Oct. 1. While the law bans more than 170 semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and handguns, it also bans handgun magazines over 15 rounds and rifle magazines over 10 rounds. Magazines do not have to be registered.
Illinois State Police published the first round of statistics Tuesday, and of more than 2.4 million Firearm Owner ID card holders, 1,050 individuals have registered a total of 3,202 firearms, .50 caliber ammunition and accessories.
“You’re at 0.0004%. That’s a rounding error,” gun rights advocate Todd Vandermyde told The Center Square.
To be fair, as Glenn Reynolds would say, that’s about half the number of Connecticut gun owners who rushed to register their AR-15s etc. after a similar law was passed there.
ILGov Fatboi Pritzker must be shitting in his capacious pants.
It should be pointed out that the acronym of the Protect Illinois Communities Act is PICA, which, in addition to being a typesetting measurement, is a mental disorder which compels its sufferers to ingest dirt.
Yes, I think we can all imagine something slightly more organic that we cordially invite the Illinois Legislature to eat. (Not for nothing do the Chinese call it “Night Soil”.)
“While the law bans…”
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The very idea is so retarded that all I can offer is a hearty LOL.
Seriously, I have just never understood the idea of someone thinking they have the right to “ban” another person from possessing what they want.
Any person that believes they have the right to ban anyone from possessing what they will is admitting to a mental illness and needs to physically confined until such time that they have been determined to be in control of their faculties.
CT did it again and banned more rifles this year and demanded these items be registered. CT already has an illegal and widely inaccurate registry. They put that in effect years ago. They enacted all private sales to go through the state police a number of years ago to catch any private sales. Now private sales are pretty much banned in the state.
These state legislatures need to get spanked in the courts and the legislators need to be voted out of office.
JQ
Unfortunately, I still live in the People’s Republic of Illinois, formerly the “Land of Lincoln”, and I shoulda gone out and purchased one of those nasty AR’s or AK’s when I coulda. I asked a friend of mine if he was going to register his after the law was passed. His answer was “Fuck no!” Like most people here he knows this is going to percolate through the courts and then, finally, the Supreme Court will tell Illinois’s stupid politicians “you can’t do that.” At which point they’ll go and pass another stupid law. Rinse and repeat, ad nauseum. In the interim I will go out and buy a nasty semi-auto or two, especially if I’m still in Illinois.
These politicians are not learning via court decisions striking down these atrocious laws.
Anyone have any ideas on how to educate these legislators and governors so that they stop pushing these laws and policies? Anyone have an ideas that they wish to express out loud?
JQ
Required curriculum: Pinochet 101