Illinois CCW HB2567

[Don Gwinn]

HB2567 has been entered and assigned to the House Agricultural Committee. That may sound odd, but check out the listing below of the pro-gun records of the members of this Democrat-dominated committee.

Currently the bill has only two sponsors, Rep. Phelps and my own Rep, Gary Hannig, a Democrat himself.

There's another CCW bill out there that may be pretty similar, but it does put issuing authority in the hands of the Counties rather than the state police. If both are truly shall-issue, that may not matter, but I figure individual sheriffs are probably less trustworthy. Whether that's true, I don't really know.


Using the profiling system Mac Mcwilliams uses at TBI2A, you can get a more complete picture. These are the profiles for these legislators in 2003-2004 (last session) since they don't really have voting records for this session yet.


GREEN means the member votes with us at least 75% of the time.
YELLOW means the member votes with us 50-75% of the time.
ORANGE means the member votes with us 25-50% of the time.
PINK means the member votes with us 0-25% of the time (they hate us.)


Granberg: GREEN

Boland: GREEN

Cultra: GREEN

Dugan: GREEN

Flider: GREEN

McGuire: YELLOW

Moffitt: GREEN

Myers: GREEN

Phelps: GREEN

Pritchard: GREEN

Reis: NEW MEMBER

Reitz: GREEN

Sacia: GREEN

Sommer: GREEN

Verschoore: NEW MEMBER

You can download Mac's profiles from last year at Take Back Illinois--2nd Amendment Committee (it's a committee of one, but it sounds neat, doesn't it?)

 

[Charley]

Good luck with the bill. Here in WV, CCW is done through the counties, and from what I have seen, works well. Also is handled very quickly. Turn around time from our presentation of the NRA certificate and application was one week. But then, I don't have a beef with the sheriff nor he with me. I am guessing that in some counties that could be a problem (personal vendetas).
Oh...and go Cubbies.

 

[Don Gwinn]

In most Illinois counties, I wouldn't expect a huge problem. However, we do have Cook County (Chicago) and a couple around the St. Louis metro area (East St. Louis) which run on pure corruption.

I don't give it much of a chance this year, but it's good to be bringing it up and especially good that it might make it out of committee. That's at least enough to force people to vote for it or against it, and that's a good first step.

If we manage to pass it, that would be fantastic--but some of that "Green" rating comes from simply voting for whatever the NRA tells them they have to be for and against what the NRA says to be against, so for some of these guys you need ISRA and the NRA on the bandwagon. Even in that event, it won't mean anything for this session unless it's a veto-proof majority, and I can't imagine that happening.