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The House Gun Violence Prevention Committee voted 9-5 along party lines Wednesday to pass House Bill 4471, which seeks to ban the sale of any semiautomatic pistol with a cruciform trigger bar in Illinois.
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Once again the Illinois communist party goes after legal gun owners and now the manufacturer. The generation 6 Glock which was recently released, is manufactured to be “switch” proof. Glock manufactures a weapon according to federal regulations, what happens after that is on the owner. Start charging the thugs for every gun violation they are breaking- FOID, defacing a firearm, extended magazines, no ccl permit, full auto without a license, illegal transportation of firearms, illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. All of this falls under the FOID Act but if I ignore it I go to the clink. Illinois is… Read more »
Next up, anything that uses bullets.
We should be able to sue for lose of constitutional rights until the SCOTUS tries all these laws it.
In a state that loves its no kings rallies, there certainly are a lot of articles about things being banned there in Illinois and Chicago. The irony is, I am sure, lost on Chicagoans and Illinoisans.