Here is the way the anti-freedom, anti-gun politicians in Illinois greet over 5000 Illinois gun owners...

HB 12 - One Gun a Month
3/11/2009 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Susana A Mendoza
3/11/2009 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez
3/11/2009 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Cynthia Soto
3/11/2009 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. William Davis
3/11/2009 House Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Marlow H. Colvin

This is how they responded to over 5000 gun owners coming to Springfield, IL on March 11, 2009.

If any of these freedom hating politicians is your State Representative, please vote them out of office.

IGOLD 2009

I attended the Illinois Gun Owner Lobby Day (IGOLD) today. With about 2500 people last year, we doubled attendance. Richard Pearson, Executive Director of the ISRA, told me the attendance estimates for this year are over 5000. What an impact on the legislators that makes.

$1 Million Insurance Bill Gets Tabled!

Rep. Kenneth Dunkin, who sponsored HB 687, has talked with Illinois gun owners and agreed to table the bill.

Now, that is a result from the IGOLD.

Rep. Dunkin, thank you for listening to reason and talking with gun owners.

HB 2257 Passes out of Committee with an Amendment

HB 2257 creates a carry licensing system for the State of Illinois.

The bill was passed out of committee today with an amendment adding a requirement for fingerprinting and a fee. Also added was a requirement to file the application for a carry license with your local sheriff's department.

The Gun Ban Mentality

This is the mindset:


Sure, let's pass another law and make murder more illegal, that will stop it. Why don't we outlaw automobiles too, that way we can stop drunk driving as well. And when the guns and cars are gone and people are still dieing, maybe we can outlaw knives, baseball bats, sticks, rocks, rope, pantyhose, hammers, fire pokers, pipe, wrenches, screwdrivers, knitting needles....I may have missed a couple other items that someone could get killed with, we can add those too.

Glenn Beck on the $1Million Liability

From You Tube-Glenn Beck on Fox

Anti Firearm Legislation in the Illinois General Assembly

Some of these are silly, some are blatant attacks on the right to keep and bear arms.

HB 0012 CRIM CD-ONE GUN PER MONTH
HB 0048 FOID CARD ACT-PRIVATE SALE
HB 0165 CRIM CD-ASSAULT WEAPONS
HB 0179 CRIM CD-STORE FIREARM-MINOR
HB 0180 HANDGUN DEALER LICENSING ACT
HB 0199 CRIM CD-ONE GUN PER MONTH
HB 0687 FIREARM OWNERS ID-INSURANCE
HB 0845 CRIMINAL LAW-FOID CARD
HB 0867 * CRIM CD&CD CORR-AGG BATTERY
HB 1032 CRIM CD-USE STOLEN FIREARMS
HB 2389 CRIM CD-FIREARM SAFETY
HB 2390 CRIM CD-HANDGUN SAFETY LOCKS
HB 3791 CRIM CD-FIREARM AMNESTY
HB 4243 FIREARM OWNERS ID-DATABASE

SB0085 FIREARM LIABILITY ACT
SB0031 FIREARM OWNERS ID-REVOCATION
SB1848 HANDGUN DEALER LICENSING ACT
SB1275 CRIM CD-ONE GUN PER MONTH
SB1721 CRIM CD-ASSAULT WEAPONS

* At first glance this bill seems like it isn't a problem until you get to this part:

Provides for enhanced penalties for carrying or possessing firearms or other dangerous weapons in a conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by a public transportation agency or on a public way within 1,000 feet of the real property comprising a public transportation facility.

I believe this would make possessing a firearm in your car and driving by such a facility would be in violation. If it passes plan your driving carefully.

Illinois Firearm Database

HB 4243 - Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that the information contained in the record of transfer of firearms, stun guns, and tasers shall be forwarded to the Department of State Police, which shall create a database containing all such information in the record.

"Any person within this State who transfers or causes to be transferred any firearm, stun gun, or taser shall keep record of such transfer for a period of 10 years from the date of transfer. Such record shall contain the date of the transfer; the description, serial number or other information identifying the firearm, stun gun, or taser if no serial number is available; and, if the transfer as completed within this State, the transferee's Firearm Owner's Identification Card number. On or after January 1, 2006, the record shall contain the date of application for transfer of the firearm. Additionally, such record shall be forwarded to the Department of State Police, which shall create a database containing all such information in the record. On demand of a peace officer such transferor shall produce for inspection such record of transfer. If the transfer or sale took place at a gun show, the record shall include the unique identification number. Failure to record the unique identification number is a petty offense. Failure to forward information contained in the record to the Department of State Police within 10 days after the transfer of the firearm, stun gun, or taser is a petty offense."
-HB 4243

This would require all private transactions to be forwarded to the Illinois State Police.

Illinois SB 1976 may be dead!

SB 1976 has been assigned to the Public Health Committee, three Chicago lawmakers sit on that committee. I believe several others are from the Chicago area. So this one is likely dead.

Open Carry for Illinois

In this article I mentioned a carry bill that has no mention of a requirement to carry concealed. Please call your legislators in support of HB 2257.

Another Carry Bill

HB 2257 - Creates the Citizen's Self-Defense Act. Authorizes the Department of Natural Resources to issue a license to carry a defensive firearm ("LTC") to individuals who meet, among other things, certain training and education requirements. Authorizes the holder of an LTC to carry a defensive firearm, except in an area prohibited under the Act. Requires any LTC issued by another state or municipality to be honored in Illinois. Sets out other provisions related to reciprocity. Authorizes persons who have been issued an order of protection to seek an emergency LTC. Authorizes the Department to deny an application for or revoke an LTC under certain circumstances. Sets out provisions regarding the renewal of an LTC and other administrative matters. Sets forth the penalties for certain violations of the Act. Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Citizen Safety and Self-Defense Trust Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that an ordinance of a unit of local government is invalid if inconsistent with the Citizen's Self-Defense Act. Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that persons who carry or possess a defensive firearm in accordance with the Citizen's Self-Defense Act are exempt from conviction for unlawful use of weapons and aggravated unlawful use of weapons. Provides that a firearm is not subject to confiscation solely because it is carried in violation of the Citizen's Self-Defense Act. Effective January 1, 2010.

Family Deer Hunting Permits

HB 0674 - Amends the Wildlife Code. Requires the Department of Natural Resources to issue deer permits without charge to the immediate family of an Illinois landowner who resides in Illinois, owns at least 40 acres of Illinois land, and wishes to hunt his or her land; however, those permits are valid for hunting only on that landowner's land. Members of a landowner's immediate family who do not wish to hunt only on land owned by their immediate family member shall be charged the same fee as the landowner. Defines "immediate family". Effective immediately.

I call it the Safe Passage Bill!

HB 0173 - Limits restrictions on transportation of firearms and ammunition by local governments.

Hunter and Fisherman Interference Bill

HB 2546 - Amends the Department of Natural Resources (Conservation) Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and the Hunter Interference Prohibition Act. Changes the name of the Hunter Interference Prohibition Act to the Hunter and Fishermen Interference Prohibition Act. Clarifies that the renamed Act applies to the taking of aquatic life as well as wildlife.


In the past the laws only effected interference of hunting activities, this bill would change that to include fishing as well. It also provides that a court can award damages to include punitive, and also award repayment of travel, license, and other fees related to a hunt or fishing activity that was interfered with.

License waiver for deployed military.

HB 0998 - Amends the Department of Natural Resources (Conservation) Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, the Fish and Aquatic Life Code, and the Wildlife Code to allow a serviceman or servicewoman who is returning from service abroad or mobilization to camp, fish, and hunt in the State without fee for as long as he or she maintains residency in Illinois.

This would allow a person who served outside the US under federal orders to apply to the DNR for a waiver of the hunting and fishing license fees. It looks like they would still be required to purchase all other stamps and permits. i.e.-Habitat Stamp, Deer Permits, Turkey Permits, Waterfowl Stamp...

Lead fishing weight ban, could this mean a lead ammo ban as well?

SB 1269 - Creates the Lead Sinker Act. Prohibits any person from selling, supplying, distributing or offering to sell, supply, or distribute lead sinkers and lead jigs. Prohibits the use of lead sinkers and lead jigs to take fish in freshwater lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, brooks, and similar bodies of water over which the Department of Natural Resources ("the Department") has jurisdiction under the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Requires the Department, after consulting with the Illinois State Board of Education, to institute an educational program that meets certain requirements. Requires the Department to (i) notify the public about the Act's prohibitions; (ii) enforce the Act; (iii) confiscate, under certain circumstances, lead jigs or lead sinkers that it finds in the course of enforcing the Act; and (iv) suspend, for not more than 6 months, the hunting and fishing privileges of a person who uses a lead sinker or lead jig to take fish in violation of the Act.

Common Sense Gun Laws

Now this is a "common sense" gun law!

HB 0171 by Rep. David Reis

"Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that the waiting period for withholding delivery of a firearm after application for its purchase has been made does not apply to the transfer of an operable firearm in exchange for another operable firearm. Effective immediately."

Finally, a bill that makes good sense.

Now, how about a bill that says if you already own a firearm you don't have to undergo the waiting period to purchase another. Doesn't it stand to reason? The whole reason touted for the waiting period is to prevent a person who gets angry at someone from stopping by a store, purchasing a gun, and then shooting who they are mad at, right?