Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals #4:
“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
And in this case, the Judge is the “activist”. “Show me or….” is the threat (and yes, he has the Power to do so). Illinois just passed a SWEEPING gun ban bill, the Illinois Firearm Ban Act, that rivals what California and Massachusetts have done to their citizens’ Second Amendment Rights. “Common sense” nothing – that’s the moniker they use instead of being honest in saying “we ARE going to take them away from you”. THOUSANDS of firearms (and “Mommy Govt, may I have one? actions”) are now prohibited.
They forgot about SCOTUS’s Bruen gun decision. Or, what seems more likely, trying to either believe it doesn’t hold any water or that they could get away with it. Heh – US District Court Judge Stephen McGlynn, in the lawsuit filed by the Illinois Gun Rights Alliance, issued an order requiring the state to provide illustrative examples of each and every item banned under the Illinois Firearm Ban Act:
24 – Feb 13, 2023 – ORDER: Within the response to 16 Motion for Preliminary Injunction, Defendants shall provide illustrative examples of each and every item banned under 720 ILCS 5/24-1.9. Signed by Judge Stephen P. McGlynn on 2/13/2023. (jce)THIS TEXT ENTRY IS AN ORDER OF THE COURT. NO FURTHER DOCUMENTATION WILL BE MAILED. (Entered: 02/13/2023)…
He’s gonna need a bigger courtroom. As the author puts it (emphasis mine):
Here’s the first of many problems for AG Illinois Attorney General] Kwame Raoul: there are so many variations in the guns listed in the ban law that identifying every forbidden firearm will prove, well, difficult at best. After all, there are so many makes, models, and variations of America’s favorite rifle that providing illustrative examples of “each and every item” is damn near impossible.
And he points out that even if you have a legal gun, the law states that IF it can be converted to an illegal one based on changed features (say, putting a pistol grip on a shotgun?), that original shotgun is now illegal as well resulting in:
That’s correct…many of the most popular pump-action shotguns ever made are now forbidden in Illinois.
And that includes all of the parts that could be used in doing so (think about what’s in your gun for parts…). Yes, this is Civilian Disarmament. The Democrats, who basically run Illinois, don’t care at all for the Second Amendment and are trying to “legislate it” away.
It could end up being almost as big as Bruen if the Judge continues on this path and the State can’t get 10s, if not 100,00,000s of guns and parts they’ve banned in front of him.
(H/T: The Truth About Guns)