Illinois set to ban gun magazines

http://www.isra.org/ ^

[Myrddin]

and would also ban many firearms with tubular magazines that more than 10 rounds

My old Stephens/Springfield bolt action .22LR holds 14 rounds. It was all I ever needed to put a couple rabbits on my dinner table when I was in high school. Most of the time I put the 12 unfired rounds back in the box. My brother in law would go through 100 rounds with a 10/22 and never accomplish more than raising dust and making a few squirrels nervous.

[Myrddin]

It even bans possession. Idiotic jerks.

Magazines possessed before the effective date are excluded. Save your receipts to show possession before the effective date. That was necessary to avoid the "ex post facto" invalidation. I don't think any of my mags has a manufacturing date stamped on them.

[Fido969]

Gee, I’ve got an 80-year-old Steven’s .22 short bolt action single-shot with a tube magazine that holds about 12 or 15 .22 shorts.

I guess it is an “assault rifle” now.

[Gideon Reader]

Yes. But only by ignorant schmucks, who cannot be bothered to learn the correct terminology.

[Gideon Reader]

AhHAA!
I get it. The illegal ammo feeding devices will be eligible for “Z” visas and ALL will be well.

[jimfree]

Let me understand now...they are violating the First Amendment in order to violate the second?

[ZULU]

Idiotic and un-COnstitutional.

You can’t burn books in America.

Illinois is becoming a lot like Taxachusetts, New Joisey, and Kalipornia.

[ApplegateRanch]

Interference with Interstate Commerce.

Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 3.

Unconstitutional.

Now laugh yourself to death, at my expense.

[rbosque]

[Disambiguator]

Where is my gun lube?

Astra-glide?

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

E-mail for my idiot State Senator Jeffrey Schoenberg, one of the co-sponsors of this bill:

senator@jschoenberg.org

[Toddsterpatriot]

Astro-glide?

[Petruchio]

See my reply to post #30.

I think they are attempting to sneek thru a ban on Hi-Cap mags under the guise of sexual exploitation of children.

Very sneeky. . .

[Petruchio]

See post #30.

[LexBaird]

My point is that such bans are meaningless, unless the population willingly co-operates. People have known how to make bangsticks since the 1400s, and the means to manufacture them are abundant. Unless the Govt. intends to control the materials and milling machinery, the ban is not enforceable in the face of an unwilling population.

Your average citizen mechanic could not manufacture a tank to match modern standards, but a homeshop metalworker could make a mighty serviceable fully auto rifle with magazines to feed it. Kalashnikov, Shepard and Turpin, and John Moses pointed the way, and did the design work. The knowledge genie is long out of the bottle.

[ApplegateRanch]

I’ve got an 80-year-old Steven’s .22 short bolt action single-shot with a tube magazine that holds about 12 or 15 .22 shorts.

How odd.

My 56 year old Stevens Model 15-A bolt action, manual cocking, single shot .22 (short, long, long-rifle) does not have any kind of magazine...which is why it is called a 'single shot'.

[Fido969]

You are correct.

I should trade my .22 tube magazine guns in for single shots. Then I know I would be legal.

How would the “.22 gattling gun” rate?

[pabianice]

Meanwhile, counting the months until I can move out of MA...

[aculeus]

What's next? Change the name of the state capital from Springfield to ------------------ ?

(Fill in the blank with a name not associated with firearms manufacture.)

[Petronski]

Then they came for the calendars . . .

But I said nothing because I didn't have a date.