Current gun laws in Illinois are sickening

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If you are pulled over and they find a handgun in your car that isn't registered, the police can confiscate your car. Now with Gov. Ryan's new safe neighborhood law you will be charged with a felony. Let say you lived in Chicago or a surrounding neighborhood that denies the existence of the 2nd amendment. You can find yourself facing felony charges, hugh attorney fees, and the lost of your vehicle. All this because you decided to take your handgun to the shooting range one day and forgot that the laws were changed. Years ago, I thought of how nice it would be to train my sons how to properly handle a firearm. Now, I had to reconsider taking them to the range due to fears of losing my car, losing 3 years of my life and thousands of dollars in attorney fees. If you think that moving to another state is the solution better think again. Time is an enemy to all. Education is the key to all our problems not ignorance. How are the laws in your state? Are they getting more restrictive?
 
Colorado's not too bad now but the noose is tightening slowly but surely. CCW laws are actually one of the best in the country except for the "may issue" clause & that the whole state is patch-work because the issuing authority is the separate county sheriffs rather than at the state level. Different sheriffs put varying restrictions on their CCW recipients.

I think El Paso (Springs area) folks can't carry in schools, etc. Larimer (Ft Collins/Fun) county folks can carry in schools but we aren't allowed to carry open-only concealed. Understand that each of these restrictions are contrary to state law.

And, there are several city ords which are much more restrictive & who really has a clue as to all the different regs in the "occupied zones?" The Denver "safe streets/public nuisance law" (or some such) "allows" them to confiscate your car if a gun is found therein - even if you have a CCW - "proven good guy."
 
Outside of the City of Chicago, there is no registration of guns. Some suburbs, i.e Oak Park and Morton (Moron?) Grove, prohibit possession of handguns within their corporate limits. You must have an Illinois Firearms Owner's Identification card to possess any firearm; this card also is need in order to buy ammunition and even primers. Carrying a handgun within reach of you in a vehicle always was an offense (misdemeanor) but was made a felony with the enactment of the Safe Neighborhoods Act. Gov. George Lyin' Ryan should come out and admit he's a Democrat, the chowderhead.
 
The safe neighborhoods act was made in 95. Just last week they found it to be unconstitutional and want to change it from felony to misdemeanor. Currently many of us are writing the reps and trying to get a CCW law passed, this way if someone is illegally carrying it will still be a felony. If you are in IL I encourage you to write and call, we can use all the help we can get. As for carrying the gun in the car, I might be wrong on this, but I thought you can take it to the range, but it has to be locked up, unloaded in the trunk of the car. My BIL travels to Wi for hunting all the time, and I know he brings the handgun along for the ranges. But you do have to have that FOID card just to handle a gun. :( Something I do not have yet.

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Its frightening when the gun laws in Chicago, NY, Maryland etc are more restrictive than those in Canada and Australia.
 
Yahooooo! It is now officially a misdemeanor and no longer a felony! For more information, go into legal and political. There is an entire thread about it. Now we need the CCWs and we are set! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

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Its frightening when the gun laws in Chicago, NY, Maryland etc are more restrictive than those in Canada and Australia.

Or when current Russian laws are in many ways less restrictive than those in New Jersey.

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In illinois, whenever you buy a gun from an FFL its automatically "registered". Hate to burst your bubble!!!

Welcome to the People's Republic of Illinois!!!


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