Illinois Gun Control, True or False?

[Omega]

I found the following while playing hooky from my editing. Does anybody know if this is for real or an urban legend?
Rich
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Gun grabbers in the Illinois House today moved a resolution that would result in most of your guns being banned and confiscated.

HR 656, sponsored by rabid antigunner Rep. Julie Hamos (D-Evanston, directs the U.S. Congress to "extend and strengthen" the so-called "assault weapons" ban.

If Hamos and her friends get their way, then the list of banned guns would grow considerably to include a BAN ON ANY GUN MODEL, OR STYLE EVER PURCHASED BY ANY GOVERNMENT AGENCY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

That would mean:

* All Colt revolvers would be banned and confiscated.

* All S&W revolvers would be banned and confiscated.

* All Ruger revolvers would be banned and confiscated.

* All Colt 1911 style pistols would be banned and confiscated.

* All Glock, S&W, Sig, H&K pistols would be banned and confiscated.

* All Trapdoor Springfields, Krags, M1903 Springfields, M1 Garands would be banned and confiscated.

Get the picture?

HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO SAVE YOUR GUNS:

1. Call the following Representatives Wednesday and Thursday of this week and POLITELY inform them that you are opposed to HR 656 and POLITELY request that they VOTE AGAINST HR 656 if it comes up for a vote before their committee.

a. Rep. William Delgado (217) 782-0480

b. Rep. Patricia Bailey (217) 782-5971

c. Rep. Richard Bradley (217) 782-8117

d. Rep. Annazette Collins (217) 782-8077

e. Rep. Careen Gordon (217) 782-5997

f. Rep. Constance Howard (217) 782-6476

g. Rep. Lovana Jones (217) 782-2023

h. Rep. Pat Lindner (217) 782-1486

i. Rep. Eileen Lyons (217) 782-0494

j. Rep. John Millner (217) 558-1037

k. Rep. Chapin Rose (217) 558-1006

l. Rep. Jim Sacia (217) 782-8186

m. Rep. Ron Wait (217) 782-0548

2. PLEASE FORWARD THIS ALERT ON TO ALL YOUR GUN OWNING FRIENDS AND HAVE THEM CALL TOO.

3. PLEASE POST THIS ALERT TO ANY AND ALL INTERNET BULLETIN BOARDS TO WHICH YOU MAY BELONG.

Please act today - the future of the 2nd Amendment is up to you!

Gun Control is a Disease - You are the Cure

[Wolfhound]

http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=3&GA=93&DocTypeId=HR&DocNum=656&GAID=3&LegID=9326

[RandyWakeman]

If Hamos and her friends get their way, then the list of banned guns would grow considerably to include a BAN ON ANY GUN MODEL, OR STYLE EVER PURCHASED BY ANY GOVERNMENT AGENCY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

That would mean:

* All Colt revolvers would be banned and confiscated.

* All S&W revolvers would be banned and confiscated.

* All Ruger revolvers would be banned and confiscated.

* All Colt 1911 style pistols would be banned and confiscated.

* All Glock, S&W, Sig, H&K pistols would be banned and confiscated.

* All Trapdoor Springfields, Krags, M1903 Springfields, M1 Garands would be banned and confiscated.

It is a bill to be sent to the US Congress extending the so-called assault weapons ban.


Though smelling of California (and Richie Daley of Chicago) -- the above citation is not factual. How revolvers are added as in the above is strange, and there seems to be no merit to the quotation cited above.

The full text is as pointed to by Wolfhound:

HR0656  LRB093 19633 RLC 45374 r
 

 
1  HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2      WHEREAS, Assault weapons are military-style guns designed  
3  and manufactured for the sole purpose of killing the largest  
4  number of people in the shortest amount of time possible; and
 
5      WHEREAS, Military-style assault weapons are the guns of  
6  choice for criminals, enabling them to commit some of America's  
7  deadliest crimes, including the 1989 Stockton, California  
8  schoolyard shooting, the 1999 massacre at Columbine High  
9  School, and the 2002 DC-area sniper attacks; and
 
10      WHEREAS, Military-style assault weapons threaten the  
11  safety of America's law enforcement officers, having been used  
12  to kill one in five officers slain in the line of duty between  
13  1998 and 2001, according to FBI statistics; and
 
14      WHEREAS, International terrorist organizations urge their  
15  recruits to exploit America's lax gun laws and arm themselves  
16  with military-style assault weapons; and
 
17      WHEREAS, The United States Congress in 1994, recognizing  
18  the grave threat to public safety posed by the continued  
19  availability to civilians of military-style assault weapons,  
20  banned the manufacture and sale of specific models of assault  
21  weapons; and
 
22      WHEREAS, Since 1994 many gun manufacturers have ignored the  
23  spirit of the law by manufacturing "copycat" guns nearly  
24  identical to those banned but for minor cosmetic changes; and
 
25      WHEREAS, The federal ban on military-style assault  
26  weapons, which was enacted on September 13, 1994, contained a  
27  sunset provision providing for the automatic repeal of the ban  
28  ten years following that date, or September 13, 2004; and
 
 

 
 
  HR0656 - 2 - LRB093 19633 RLC 45374 r
 

 
1      WHEREAS, As a result of the 1994 assault weapons ban,  
2  domestic manufacturers are prohibited from manufacturing or  
3  selling new high capacity magazines (except for a limited  
4  number of magazines for police, military, and nuclear plant  
5  protection use); and
 
6      WHEREAS, The 1994 high capacity magazine ban did not apply  
7  to foreign magazines, and between September of 1994 and  
8  December of 2000, 47.3 million large magazines were approved  
9  for importation for civilian use, from 50 different countries;  
10  and
 
11      WHEREAS, The federal ban does not affect firearms designed  
12  for hunting or other legitimate sporting uses; and
 
13      WHEREAS, The federal courts and U.S. Attorney General John  
14  Ashcroft have declared the federal assault weapons ban to be  
15  constitutional and in no way an infringement on the Second  
16  Amendment; and
 
17      WHEREAS, Military-style assault weapons should be  
18  completely and permanently eliminated from our streets and our  
19  communities; therefore, be it
 
20      RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE  
21  NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that  
22  the House urges the United States Congress and the President of  
23  the United States to renew and strengthen the federal ban on  
24  military-style assault weapons, closing the loopholes that  
25  have allowed gun manufacturers to continue to design,  
26  manufacture, market and sell to civilians military-style  
27  assault weapons; and be it further
 
28      RESOLVED, That assault weapon ban reauthorization contain  
29  a large capacity ammunition magazine import ban consistent with  
30  the domestic ban on large capacity ammunition magazines.