Womp Womp: Illinois Deadline To Register 'Assault-Style' Weapons Goes As Well As You'd Expect

If you are easily shocked, hang on to your britches! Illinois lawmakers passed a ban on so-called 'assault weapons' and 'high-capacity magazines', and the Protect Illinois Communities Act was signed into law by Govenor J.B. Pritzker on January 10th of 2023. Totally shocking, huh? Well, this past Monday, New Year's Day, was the deadline for Illinois residents to register any of the 170 weapons and magazines that had been purchased prior to the new law. Failure to register those weapons could potentially result in a Class 2 Felony. Monday was deadline for Illinois owners of assault weapons prior to ban to register their guns. https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-assault-weapons-deadline/?taid=6593914bb7f0c900016d6ce3 -- This did not go the way that lawmakers hoped that it would, and we are HERE FOR IT.

As it turns out, only about 1.2 percent of Illinois residents complied. Of the 2.4 million FOID card carriers of Illinois only 15,000 of them have complied to the January 1st deadline to register their AR’s and high capacity magazines to the state. That’s a BIG 🖕🏻to the government from a “blue state” - SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED - AmericaFirst‼️ According to the Illinois State Police, around 29,357 of Illinois’ 2.4 million Firearm Owner’s Identification card holders (about 1.22 percent) had registered the banned weapons. This ban came about in reaction to the Fourth of July shooting at Highland Park (a suburb of Chicago, another shocker!) that left seven dead and 30 injured. The Protect Illinois Communities Act bans the future sale of semi-automatic pistols, shotguns, and rifles because they have all been classified as 'assault weapons'. See? Anything and everything can be an assault weapon if you're a Democrat!

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