It’s been a wild afternoon in Springfield at the Illinois State Capitol building. Despite vicious earlier bickering between groups, the anti-gunners have come together to save their sinking ship SS GUN CONTROL that ran into a couple of big icebergs in recent days.
In short, their ship is sinking and we need gun owners to keep up the pressure starting bright and early tomorrow morning, ESPECIALLY on legislators who voted for Amendment 6 of HB-1016.
As we mentioned, their ship has hit some icebergs.
Iceberg #1 is “the gun lobby”. The NRA-ILA, assisted by the Illinois State Rifle Association, Guns Save Life and others have helped marshal Illinois’ 2 million gun owners to oppose this bill. Thousands upon thousands of calls have poured into Illinois House members’ offices in recent day. KEEP THEM COMING.
Iceberg #2 is reality. Americans by and large don’t support gun control measures and they surely don’t support gun bans, which this gun dealer licensing scheme includes. (Do more than ten transfers in a single year – how’s that for gun rationing for you? – and you can’t buy another gun for three years…)
The Drama Llama
In short, Gabby Giffords’ group “Americans for Responsible Solutions” came into Illinois earlier this year and brought a whole lot of drama with them. In short, they didn’t play nice with the other gun grabber groups in Illinois, deeming them inept rubes that couldn’t pass gun control in a state where Democrats controlled a super-majority in the state legislature.
ARS puffed their chests, hired some big-dollar lobbyists, and boldly bragged they were going to show the other groups how to do it. The other groups initially stood back and watched the ARS ship SS GUN CONTROL crash right into those icebergs. Let’s just say that Gabby Giffords and her Americans for Responsible Solutions have been given a humiliating lesson that Democrat party affiliation doesn’t always equate to support for radical gun control.
Setting aside bruised egos from earlier this year, all of the groups now see this “dealer licensing” thing as a “must win” for all of them, and I’ll tell you why: ARS has poured a ton of money and political capital into this gun dealer licensing scheme. It’s gotten national publicity, and groups nationwide are watching. All of the gun control groups in Illinois realize that the publicity of failure at this point will be shared by all of them.
The Moms Demand Action hacks are busy pushing the flawed ARS poll that claims 85% support gun dealer licensing by the state. We’re guessing that 99% of those same folks don’t realize that gun dealers are already licensed by the feds.
The gun grabbers are targeting the Democrats that didn’t vote with them and the Republicans from the suburbs as well.
One woman in particular has busied herself running around frantically trying to catch anyone she can.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Keep the calls coming and keep on those legislators in the Suburbs (and any others who voted for Amendment Six). Here’s the roll call. You can figure it out. Anyone who voted Y needs to get calls.
Now the gun grabbers are starting to completely flip out that we are going to get a chance on our suppressor bill.
Make that call tomorrow morning, then call again tomorrow afternoon. Email and pound away at them as well.
Time is limited. Can you give us a clue as to which of those Y’s is most likely to be influenced by our contact?
I’ve normally only contacted my representatives and committee leadership.
I plan on looking them up on line, the ones north of I-80 will probably be a waste of time.
Halfway through I find that they are all from north of I-80 with the exception of Carol Ammons. Being in the 217 area code I started dialing the 7 digit number, she answered on the 6th number and said “Don’t you be calling here telling me how to vote, you gun toting, Bible packing, racist homophobe, Bernie Sanders is going to put me in his Cabinet and him and I will take every damn gun you own. Have a nice day” Click. Thus begins my day.
Was she high on coke (the powder, not the drink)?
She and her pardoned jailbird hubby were said to have bought plenty of powder in days gone by.