You would be surprised how those former margins suddenly change after a veto raised the specter of the issue.
There is safety in numbers and not bucking the party bosses.
Fundamental conflicts for the wicked and corrupt.
They have to pass something, and soon, because the 7th Circuit is voiding their conceal carry ban as unconstitutional. Lisa Madigan has been given an extension of thirty days and told she will not be given another. She has aspirations to be the next governor of IL, so she and her dad Mike Madigan are not on the same page as Quinn. In fact, Many observers here, myself included, believe Mike & Lisa want this gun issue out of the way, and if that’s the case, you can expect those veto-proof majorities in both houses to hold up. Quinn here is the odd man out, even within his own party. I do not expect him to last.
One more thing. Those supposedly “worst things” about the bill (the preemption, for example) are about the ONLY things that are bringing the pro-gun people into the deal. If we’re not in, there is no deal. We’ve already proved that several times over. So if Quinn kills the deal, we would go into default (aka constitutional) carry, and nothing brings out the lefty bed-wetters like the thought of totally losing control over guns. We have the advantage, and we are using it.