Pritzker gave reasons for why he said only about 30,000 of the state’s 2.4 million Firearm Owners ID card holders have registered now banned guns by the Jan. 1 deadline. “First, they’re expensive,” he said. “Second, it’s a fraction of the 2.4 million people who have FOID cards that have an assault weapon, many of them having multiples of them. And third, the rules hadn’t really been approved until yesterday by the committee in the legislature.”
He’s doesn’t want you to comply. Non-compliance is the point. JB won. He just turned almost all of his political opponents’ voters, the MAGA bible thumping, beer drinking, assault rifle owning deplorables, into criminals over night. Think about that for a second. You’ve done nothing wrong by owning a legally purchased gun. He decides that gun is now illegal and demands millions of residents register them. Then when no one registers them, he turned every one of you into criminals. Now, he has the full power of the state police to make examples out of any MAGA conservative he wants.… Read more »
Considering more than 90% of Illinois sheriffs have refused to enforce, expect the same from State police. They are not going to risk their career on the oath of office violation and lawsuits.
This is hopium and copium. JB Pritzker has staked out his entire political career on being the most progressive governor in the country and he’s shown a willingness to take issues farther than nearly every other governor: covid masks for kids, covid shut downs for too long, gun registries, the only state with NO BAIL laws, he’s spent the most money on a campaign of any governor in the history of america. This dude goes big, literally, or he doesn’t go at all. He’s not just going to sit back and let the deplorables defy his law. He’s going to… Read more »
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
There is massive non-compliance with this registry. What delusional world is he living in?
He’s doesn’t want you to comply. Non-compliance is the point. JB won. He just turned almost all of his political opponents’ voters, the MAGA bible thumping, beer drinking, assault rifle owning deplorables, into criminals over night. Think about that for a second. You’ve done nothing wrong by owning a legally purchased gun. He decides that gun is now illegal and demands millions of residents register them. Then when no one registers them, he turned every one of you into criminals. Now, he has the full power of the state police to make examples out of any MAGA conservative he wants.… Read more »
Considering more than 90% of Illinois sheriffs have refused to enforce, expect the same from State police. They are not going to risk their career on the oath of office violation and lawsuits.
https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2016/07/07/massive-noncompliance-with-safe-act/
This is hopium and copium. JB Pritzker has staked out his entire political career on being the most progressive governor in the country and he’s shown a willingness to take issues farther than nearly every other governor: covid masks for kids, covid shut downs for too long, gun registries, the only state with NO BAIL laws, he’s spent the most money on a campaign of any governor in the history of america. This dude goes big, literally, or he doesn’t go at all. He’s not just going to sit back and let the deplorables defy his law. He’s going to… Read more »