Expanded gun control
Daley/Blagojevich are pushing an assault weapons ban for the state of Illinois:
CHICAGO Governor Rod Blagojevich (bluh-GOY’-uh-vitch) and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley are renewing their call for a statewide assault weapons ban.
Both leaders plan to appear at a rally in Chicago (at 12:15) this afternoon alongside state and local legislators and the victims of gun violence.Blagojevich and Daley have been pressing for the ban since the federal measure expired more than a year ago.
The law would prohibit the manufacture, possession and delivery of semiautomatic weapons, assault weapon attachments and the 50-caliber assault rifle.
Gun control works so well. Just ask Chicago which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation yet is neck and neck with DC (also some of the strictest gun laws in the nation) for the title of murder capitol each year.
January 17th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Where can I get that “50 caliber assault rifle”? The Barrett rifles are too expensive and too heavy to carry around, but an assault rifle ought to be just right…
January 17th, 2006 at 3:37 pm
I’m always interested to see these thugs and the thugs of Ohio who play around with AWBs. Maybe we can get a SWAT team raid on Camp Perry, Ohio next year during the National Matches when THOUSANDS of non-state residents, including CHILDREN will be in possession and use of Assault Weapons.
January 18th, 2006 at 12:48 am
[…] I covered the recent announcement of increased gun control in Illinois here. Here’s the press release from the governor. It contains this bit: We are grateful for their efforts to keep us safe from the threat posed by weapons with a high capacity magazine, silencer, automatic trigger with a pistol grip and the other dangerous features of such insidious weapons,” said Jennifer Bishop of the Brady Campaign To Prevent Handgun Violence. […]