11-27-2023, 03:01 PM
Signs of Civil Disobedience in Illinois Gun Registration Efforts
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2023/11/27/signs-of-civil-disobedience-in-illinois-gun-registration-efforts-n77716
{Cam Edwards | 27 November 2023}
There’s just a little more than a month left before Illinois gun owners must register their so-called assault weapons with the state police or risk the possibility of criminal charges if they’re caught with their modern sporting rifle, and so far it looks like many gun owners are willing to run that risk. As of November 21st, fewer than 3,500 gun owners have registered some 6,600 newly banned firearms with the state police; about 0.001 percent of the state’s 2.4 million legal gun owners.
So far state officials are downplaying the lack of compliance, suggesting there’ll be a flood of new registrations as we get closer to the January 1 deadline.
On Oct. 31, when about 2,000 people had registered their grandfathered-in assault weapons about a month into the policy being in effect, Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly said the registration process had been “slow but steady.”
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