{"id":22857,"date":"2011-04-07T11:24:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T15:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22857"},"modified":"2011-04-07T11:41:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T15:41:14","slug":"the-concealed-carry-battle-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22857","title":{"rendered":"The concealed carry battle in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Illinois legislature works to open the way for concealed carry permits, Mayor Daley, and Mayor-elect work to undermine the effort by law makers<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Daley said the General Assembly shouldn’t impose concealed carry laws on municipalities.<\/p>\n

“If they wanna carry ’em, and they can get permits, they can carry ’em in DuPage County,” Daley said. “They wanna carry ’em in Lake County, McHenry, if they wanna carry ’em in Will County – in other words, if you’re here, and you wanna go there and get your guns, you can carry ’em in those counties. You can go to the malls, everything. Just carry weapons out there.”<\/p>\n

Daley said state lawmakers would be promoting violence if they pass the bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess the bug-a-boo of increased violence overshadows the rights of Chicagoans to protect themselves from the violence that already happens there every day. Funny how people like Daley and Emmanuel are ready to have he federal government regulate guns in their state, but not their own legislatures. And it’s not places like Lake County, DuPage County and Will County where people need to protect themselves. Funny how places that least want concealed carry need it the most.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut [Daley is] becoming more irrelevant every day,\u201d NRA lobbyist Todd Vandermyde said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Opponents of concealed carry concede privately that, if a vote were held this week, it probably would win a majority in both the Illinois House and Senate<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, Illinoisans are getting their concealed carry permit<\/a>s in other states. <\/p>\n

Even though Illinois is just one of two states that bans legal gun owners from carrying concealed weapons, gun experts say more residents are taking advantage of getting concealed carry permits from other states.<\/p>\n

Those permits are not legal in Illinois, but they are in dozens of other states with reciprocal agreements with Utah and Florida, two popular states for granting those permits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve quit shopping and dining in Maryland because i can’t carry my handgun there. I drive further to go to West Virginia and Virginia venues just as my own personal protest against Maryland. There’s a twelve-mile-wide strip of Maryland I have to drive through to get to CCW-friendly Pennsylvania that I won’t make either.<\/p>\n

ADDED:<\/strong> In the meantime, New York City’s Mayor Bloomfield institutes a plan that will make certain that only the rich can afford guns<\/a> in that city;<\/p>\n

The Second Amendment Foundation and the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association filed their lawsuit Tuesday in federal court. They say that the fee the city charges to keep a handgun is so high it conflicts with the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

The fee is $340 plus a $94.25 charge for a fingerprint check.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s pretty steep – and that’s just a permit to keep the weapon in your home, cuz NYC isn’t going to let you carry it around. I’m pretty sure that’s above and beyond the state licensing costs. That’s more than the cost of the gun, in most cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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