SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Feb. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The
following was released today by the Illinois State Rifle
Association (ISRA):
The ISRA is condemning attempts by leftists in the Illinois
General Assembly to exact post-election payback against lawful gun
owners. In the weeks since the November elections, gun
control advocates in both the House and Senate have introduced
dozens of bills designed to severely curtail the rights of lawful
gun owners while doing nothing to halt Chicago's spiral into lawlessness.
The most objectionable of bills introduced to date is HB1810
sponsored by Rep. Rita Mayfield
(D-Waukegan). If passed,
HB1810 would impose a special 3.75% sales tax on firearms and
accessories. Making this bill even more repugnant is that all
proceeds from the special sales tax will be funneled directly to
radical Chicago-based community
activists. Ironically, under HB1810 lawful gun owners would
be forced to fund the very people intent on taking their guns
away.
Another unacceptable legislative scheme to restrict lawful
firearm ownership is the recently introduced HB0745.
Sponsored by Rep. Marty Moylan
(D-DesPlaines), HB0745 would force firearm owners to submit to
fingerprinting in order to retain the right to purchase firearms
and ammunition. In effect, Moylan's proposal places a
$100 tax on the constitutional right
to own and use firearms. Of course, HB0745 offers no way
forward on violent crime. All the bill does is promise to hit
hard at millions of law-abiding Illinois gun owners and hit especially hard at
good citizens who are economically disadvantaged.
"This is all about revenge," commented ISRA Executive Director
Richard Pearson. "We're
tracking about two-dozen gun control bills in the general assembly
and none of them, if passed, would have any impact on violent
crime. On the other hand, every single one of the bills
promises to stifle the free exercise of Second Amendment rights by
the lawful citizen."
"But, then again, gun control is all about punishing citizens
who would dare to own firearms," continued Pearson. "The
effort to punish firearm owners is more determined in 2017 in light
of the gun-control candidate's loss in the presidential
election."
"The ISRA is poised to obstruct and defeat any and all gun
control legislation coming before the legislature this session,"
said Pearson. "The good people of Illinois are not going to accept political
retribution in the form of restrictions on their rights. It's
understandable that the gun controllers are bitter over their
nationwide defeats last November. However, the gun
controllers will have to wallow alone in their bitterness because
the rest of us will have no part of it."
The ISRA is the state's leading advocate of safe, lawful and
responsible firearms ownership. For more than a century, the
ISRA has represented the interests of millions of law-abiding
firearm owners.
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