IL has a bill on the senate floor right now that will, if passed, make semi-auto shotguns, rifles and pistols illegal. You will be grandfathered in as long as you register your weapon with the state. If not, you will be charged with a felony!

As hunters, we need to see this for what it is, the start of the end of hunting in IL and maybe other states in the future. We need to rally against this for many reasons. Most of all because it is unconstitutional and is not in any hunters best interest.

Think of what it will do to the DNR, farmers who count on lease money, gas stations and sporting goods stores, butchers, etc. The list goes on and on. If you are an IL resident, contact your state senator now and tell them you are against SB16!

I have also just seen this proposed as afederal ammendment to the US Assault Weapons ban. Spread this around and start talking! If we let this go, you will see hunting as we know it change or go away forever.

For more, see the links:
http://isra.org/
(Scroll down and you will see the story and a link to the bill)

http://http://www.godlikeproductions.com/bbs/message.php?messageid=355802&mpage=1&showd ate=3/8/07&forum=1

(This is the federal bill)

Its your own fault for electing the bums.

Has the bill made it out of committee and is now being debated on the floor or is this just some Lefty from Chi-town trying to appease the inner city crowd?

that makes me sick, this could turn out bad for everyone reading this. can we thank jim zumbo for this ?

If I'm not mistaken it is illegal to hunt with semi-auto rifles in Michigan.

I'm also not saying that IL shouldn't fight to keep the right. Just saying.

Tom

That is very concerning and warrants fighting back, but not the end of hunting.

I think you may be mistaken. This is from the Michigan DNR site:

Looks to me like if you're using a five round magazine, you should be OK.

No, not the end of hunting. But, another encroachment on the 2nd Amendment. Hunters need to step up to the plate on 2nd Amendment too... They need to stop thinking "NRA will protect 2nd Amendment,but, I'm a hunter and don't want to be associated with those 'yahoos'..."

No, it's too soon for Dumbo's (oops, Zumbo) remarks to have been incorporated into a bill .... this is the kind of language now being incorporated in new "assault weapons ban" proposals, including the one in Congress. These new bills consider anything that fires semiautomatically, has a pistol grip and a detachable magazine (regardless of capacity) as an "assault weapon".

Can you imagine,the M1911A1 .45 ACP is now an "assault pistol"?? What crap! These billshave to be vigorously opposed everywhere they show up! (There's one in the PA legislature too, very similar!)

Funny thing. The bill I saw would NOT affect the ownership of a BAR, since its' magazine is not detachable...... However, here in PA, you never could HUNT with a semiauto RIFLE! Rifles haveto be "manually operated..."

How many hunters are in Illinois?
Where were they when the state passed and Assault Weapons Ban?
I guess the remington 7400s are the new 'terrorist weapon' in Illinois. They must be used for driveby shooting by gangbangers every day, lol.

Whew! That's a relief. See, the antigun democrats really do love you.



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Um...NO.

I don't think a single hunter voted for these "bums".