Ill. Senate rejects Quinn plan on assault weapons

AP ^ | November 28, 2012 | NA

[neverdem]

November 28, 2012 (SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) -- A proposed assault-weapons ban that Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced in August with great fanfare has fizzled without discussion in the Senate.

The Senate voted 49-4 Wednesday to override Quinn's amendatory veto that rewrote legislation to prohibit the sale or possession of semi-automatic rifles, high-capacity magazines and .50-caliber guns.

Quinn's action came after a mass shooting at a suburban Denver movie theater...

[jimsin]

psssst ROME is burning....pay attn! GET TO WORK!

[neverdem]

BANG!

[Kickass Conservative]

There’s a City named Denver in Illinois?

[4kids dad]

More a village than a city. It’s in Hancock county, south of Carthage. No movie shows though.

[1010RD]

See. Get a GOP governor or a pro-2nd Dem governor and you’ve go CC in Illinois.

[Carriage Hill]

And there’s a city named Miami, in Arizona:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami,_Arizona

[Flintlock]

Eccchuallly—when Obanga’s flash mob comes down your street; one of them 100-round mags for your assault rifle just might come in REAL handy.

[Western Phil]

Illinois has one of most everything: Paris, Denver, West Point, Kansas, Chicago

[andyk]

There’s a City named Denver in Illinois?

Haha, touche...

[4kids dad]

West Point is about 7 miles from Denver.