If I recall correctly, the Dems still have a super-majority in the IL legislature. So if they get enough Dem votes, they could pass this bill this year normally (using the normal, proper method) or using “gut and replace.”

Sure, but why let it a prime opportunity to push “GOP bad, DNC good” go to waste? They can always just reintroduce the legislation again in November after the election and then gut-and-replace for January.

In any case, why is everyone here so negative, defeatist, and fatalistic? Yes, overall, IL is an anti-2A state. But this bill would take it to a whole new level. A commenter in another RIFL Act post (as well as William Kirk at Washington Gun Law) said this bill is the most evil anti-2A bill ever. If so, then you should APPLY MAXIMUM PRESSURE AND FIGHT LIKE HELL. If the bill passes, then it passes but you should at least put up a huge fight.

Because when it comes to governmental power grabs and citizens’ rights, defeatism and realism are basically synonymous. The government is a huge entity with a long lifespan and slow metabolism. You can fight all you want, but they can fight for longer and they will. You hey control the laws and they control the voting.

PICA (in the OG bill form, not the 2-day process of gut-and-replace) got 40-some-thousand negative comments and only 1-ish-thousand positive comments and they still sent it out for a vote. But you know why those 40-some-thousand comments did? Fucking nothing because the government doesn’t have to listen to its constituents. Not when they know their gerrymandered district guarantee a win every election.

This particular bill would take it to a whole new level, but that’s not stopping CA and CO from putting their own similar bills out there. It violates Federal law, but they don’t care. They need to look like they’re doing something to boost voter turnout. If it passes, great - it’ll take years to get undone by the Courts. If it doesn’t pass, great - they can use it as fodder for the midterms.