If you did not know, today is the day that determines carry concealed once and for all (well not really once and for all) in Illinois. The ILGA will vote to over ride Governors veto of the carry concealed bill.
The rumor mill has it we will see the governor’s amendments re-introduced as separate bills. TODAY IS A DAY ALL ILLINOIS GUN OWNERS ABSOLUTELY NEED TO BE PROACTIVE.
The Senate Dems. plan to caucus right after the Executive committee hearing this morning. If any of the Gov’s veto items have any support, they plan to run them as separate trailer bills.
Please call your state senator and urge them to vote NO on any other changes to the carry bill!
IL Senate is delaying vote on HB183 by taking it out of the record.
On a side note it appears Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed for a motion of appearance possibly to request appeal to SCOTUS. This is speculation on my part, and not fact, but based on the Senate’s actions could be possible to prevent Illinois from falling off the Concealed Carry Cliff.
Tell me about it! I was able to emotionally disconnect myself from the topic though about a month ago. It was really having a negative affect on my life. Not kidding, down right depressing!
HB1453 passed in the Senate as amended on a vote of 45/13/0. HB1453 back to the House. (Hopefully the house kills it.)
I am most anxious to be the first non FIP to hold an IL permit. Since, as I understand it, IL will not recognize any out of state permits, but there is a mechanism planned for out-of-staters to apply for one, well, that’ll be me walkin’ up the courthouse steps in Joliet or wherever at 8 AM the first day I can apply. Hopefully I’ll have their training reqs ID’d and done ahead.
FIP, BTW, is a term I was given when asking my IL friends, “so what do they call people from Illinois?”
The fight is not over. The first person probably won’t be issued until 2014, and we have a fall session coming up for the general assembly in a few months. I wonder how many bills the anti’s will be throwing at us, and not a single citizen will even be carrying yet. Permits probably won’t be issued to April of 2104.
1453 is a trailer bill which makes some minor changes to 183 if passed. Specifically signage and duty to inform. It’s not dead yet but won’t kill CC even if passed.
The fight will never be over, I suspect in the next sessions we see them throw mag bans at us, limitations on the quantity of firearms, the alcohol establishment thing is a big issue with the antis. I think we should go on a major offensive and introduce a barrage of our own bills to improve 183, put the antis on the defensive. Have them work to defeat OUR bills rather than us work to defeat their bills.
Yeah 0997 was much better, but we can turn this into that. Like you said time to make improvements. No doubt Todd Vandermeir is going to take a few days to celebrate and then begin contacting sponsors on our side to get improvement bills introduced.
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois lawmakers Tuesday quickly overrode Gov. Pat Quinn’s amendatory veto of a concealed carry bill, making Illinois the 50th state to permit the licensed carrying of a firearm.
The Illinois House voted 77-31, without debate, to override Quinn’s veto.
Hours later the Senate followed through with a 41-17 roll call overriding the governor’s revisions to the bill. All area senators – Mike Frerichs of Champaign, Chapin Rose of Mahomet, Dale Righter of Mattoon and Jason Barickman of Bloomington – voted for the override.
The Senate did, however, pass a so-called “trailer bill” that incorporates three of Quinn’s chnages. One requires lawful weapons carriers to inform police that they have a concealed firearm. Another deals with mental health reporting, and the third has to do with signage.
Although Illinois immediately becomes a concealed-carry, the state has six months to implement the law.
There is some good stuff in the law such as preemption and transportation etc… that get tossed out immediately once 183 gets certified into law. Only the permits issuance and will take 180 to implement and 270 days until first permit is issued (assuming the state takes the maximum allowed amount of time).