House Committee to Vote on Gun Ban Sunday

This urgent notice was just sent out from http://isra.org/alerts/sunday.html:

LATE BREAKING ALERT – NEXT VOTE ON SEMI AUTO BAN WILL TAKE PLACE SUNDAY
YOUR IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED

After getting nowhere in the Senate, the gun controllers have taken their campaign to destroy your rights to the Illinois House.  Earlier today, Amendment #1 to SB2899 was introduced in the Illinois House of Representatives.  Sponsored by rabidly anti-gun Rep. Eddie Acevedo, the amendment would do two things to you:

1.  It would pick your pocket to pay for the confiscation and destruction of your own guns.

2.  It would ban more than 50% of the rifles and more than 80% of handguns owned by Illinois citizens.

THIS BILL WILL BE VOTED ON BY THE HOUSE JUDICIARY 1 COMMITTEE ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON – YOU MUST ACT NOW! 

To help save your guns, please contact the following Representatives and politely tell them that you are a law-abiding firearm owner and that you do not support SB2899 and that you expect them to vote the amendment down.

1.  Rep. Elaine Nekritz,. (217) 558-1004 and (847) 257-0450
2.  Rep. John Bradley, (217) 782-1051 and (618) 997-9697
3.  Rep. Jill Tracy, (217) 782-8096 and (217) 223-0833
4.  Rep. Michael Connelly, (217) 782-8028 and (630) 579-4848
5.  Rep. Dwight Kay, (217) 782-8018 and (618) 307-9200
6.  Rep. Lou Lang, (217) 782-1252 and (847) 673-1131
7.  Rep. Sid Mathias, (217) 782-1664 and (847) 222-0061
8.  Rep. André M. Thapedi, (217) 782-1702 and (773) 873-4444
9.  Rep. Arthur Turner, (217) 782-8116 and (773) 277-4700
10. Rep. Ann Williams, (217) 782-2458 and (773) 880-9082
11. Rep. Michael Zalewski, (217) 782-5280 and (708) 442-6500

The Amendment text is here.  The bills combines the semi-automatic and the large ammunition magazine  proposed by the senate, but removes the shooting range restrictions.  Here is the recap of the Amendment.

• Bans all magazines that hold more than 10 rounds
• Grandfathered all owners of large capacity magazines
  • Must register magazines with State Police within 90 days
  • Can only transfer to an heir or FFL dealer
• Must report lost or stolen large capacity magazines within 72 hours of knowledge
• Registrations start 150 days after this act become law
• Grandfathered all owners of current guns
  • Must register banned guns with State Police within 90 days
  • Can only transfer to an heir or FFL dealer
• Bans semi-automatic weapons [Defined as]
  • .50 caliber rifles, and .50 caliber cartridges.
  • any of the firearms or types, replicas, or duplicates in any caliber of the firearms, known as:
    • Norinco
    • Mitchell
    • Poly Technologies
    • Avtomat Kalashnikovs (all models)
    • Action Arms Israeli Military Industries; UZI and Galil
    • Beretta AR-70 (SC-70)
    • Colt AR-15
    • Fabrique Nationale FN/FAL, FN/LAR, and FNC
    • SWD M-10, M-11, M-11/9, and M-12
    • Steyr AUG
    • INTRATEC TEC-9, TEC-DC9, and TEC-22
  • any shotgun which contains its ammunition in a revolving cylinder, such as (but not limited the Street Sweeper and Striker 12
  • Semi-automatic rifle or pump-action rifle that can accept a detachable magazine or the following:
    • folding or telescoping stock
    • pistol grip or thumbhole stock
    • shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles the barrel
  • Semi-automatic pistol that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has any of the following:
    • folding, telescopingor thumbhole stock
    • shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles the barrel
    • ammunition magazine that attaches to the pistol outside of the pistol grip
    • manufactured weight of 50 ounces or more  when the pistol is unloaded
  • Semi-automatic version of an automatic firearm
  • Semi-automatic rifle or pistol with a fixed magazine that has the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds of ammunition
  • semi-automatic rifle or a pistol with the capacity to accept a detachable magazine, a muzzle brake, or muzzle compensator
  • semi-automatic shotgun with any of the following:
    • folding or telescoping stock
    • a pistol grip or thumbhole stock
    • ability to accept a detachable magazine
    • Fixed magazine capacity in excess of 5 rounds
  • Exempts firearms
    • manually operated by bolt, pump, lever, or slide action
    • inoperable
    • antique
    • rifle with a fixed tubular magazine located under the barrel that is only capable of holding rounds of ammunition placed end to end
    • Air Rifles
    • Olympic Shooting sport rifles