OC4me
Regular Member
I know you are all working very hard to enable the good Citizens of Illinois to finally be able to exercise a Right to Carry.
If Illinois can get a very clean and super strong Shall Issue bill passed, great! If not then consider this carefully:
Acquiescence to a restrictive carry bill (just to get something passed) is strategically unwise. If Illinois can wait for its Federal Circuit (or SCOTUS, if need be) to eventually hold that the Second Amendment protects a fundamental right to carry outside the home then Illinois instantly has Constitutional Carry by default (yes, that is a good thing!). This happy result would only be the case if absolutely NO carry licensing legislation (good or bad) happens to be on the books for the State authorities to fall back on. Think long and hard about this opportunity!
Everybody knows that the current Illinois ban on carry outside the home can't really be squared with emerging Second Amendment jurisprudence and is all but destined to be struck down (hopefully sooner than you think). Please consider fighting like hell to make sure no restrictive carry licensing system is ever put in place in Illinois. Then by default Illinois will have Constitutional Carry once the State's 'total' carry ban is finally struck down as unconstitutional.
Remember: Carry Ban Struck Down + No Alternate Carry Licensing System to take its place = Constitutional Carry.
But wait, won’t a future Illinois legislature just pass carry licensing legislation anyway in the event that the current carry ban is struck down? Not necessarily. Not if a number of die-hard Second Amendment supporters in the Illinois legislature pull out all the stops to block ALL carry licensing legislation from ever seeing the light of day. Do onto the anti-gunners what Chicago has done all these years to smother your gun rights. It is time to turn the tables.
Good luck!
If Illinois can get a very clean and super strong Shall Issue bill passed, great! If not then consider this carefully:
Acquiescence to a restrictive carry bill (just to get something passed) is strategically unwise. If Illinois can wait for its Federal Circuit (or SCOTUS, if need be) to eventually hold that the Second Amendment protects a fundamental right to carry outside the home then Illinois instantly has Constitutional Carry by default (yes, that is a good thing!). This happy result would only be the case if absolutely NO carry licensing legislation (good or bad) happens to be on the books for the State authorities to fall back on. Think long and hard about this opportunity!
Everybody knows that the current Illinois ban on carry outside the home can't really be squared with emerging Second Amendment jurisprudence and is all but destined to be struck down (hopefully sooner than you think). Please consider fighting like hell to make sure no restrictive carry licensing system is ever put in place in Illinois. Then by default Illinois will have Constitutional Carry once the State's 'total' carry ban is finally struck down as unconstitutional.
Remember: Carry Ban Struck Down + No Alternate Carry Licensing System to take its place = Constitutional Carry.
But wait, won’t a future Illinois legislature just pass carry licensing legislation anyway in the event that the current carry ban is struck down? Not necessarily. Not if a number of die-hard Second Amendment supporters in the Illinois legislature pull out all the stops to block ALL carry licensing legislation from ever seeing the light of day. Do onto the anti-gunners what Chicago has done all these years to smother your gun rights. It is time to turn the tables.
Good luck!
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