Re: Denied Illinois FOID card

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On 2/29/08, Guns wrote:
> Anti-gun Bills Poised to be Heard at Any Moment in the Illinois House!
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> In the Illinois State House there are six bills that are aimed at weakening your Second Amendment rights.
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> House Bill 731 would expand the current mandatory storage law and make it virtually impossible for law-abiding gun owners to store a
> firearm in a way that would leave it readily accessible for self-defense;
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> House Bill 758 would create a virtual ban on the private transfer of firearms;
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> House Bill 796 would create a new state-based licensing bureaucracy for firearm dealers;
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> House Bill 4357 would ban countless semi-automatic firearms and .50 cal. rifles and ammunition;
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> House Bill 4393 would place a limit on the number of handguns an individual may lawfully purchase;
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> Finally, Senate Bill 1007 would ban the manufacture, possession, delivery, sale, and purchase of standard capacity ammunition
> magazines capable of holding more than ten (10) cartridges. This bill is worded so broadly that it would also ban certain firearms,
> such as some Henry rifles, which have attached tubular magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds of ammunition. This lever-
> action rifle, whose design dates back to the 1860s, could be prohibited under SB 1007, making this bill far more than a magazine ban.

If the US Supreme Court decides in favor of Heller in "D.C. v. Heller" the proposed bills you have copied above will be dead in the
water whether they pass or not. What these bill try to do is exactly what "Heller" is going to decide.

Here’s the questions presented in Heller:

Whether the following provisions — D.C. Code §§ 7.2502.02(a)(4) [banning handguns], 22-4504(a) [banning gun carrying, including at
home], and 7.2507.02 [requiring all guns to be both unloaded and locked or disassembled] — violate the Second Amendment rights of
individuals who are not affiliated with any state-regulated militia, but who wish to keep handguns and other firearms for private use
in their homes?

(1) Does the Second Amendment protect a right of individuals?

(2) If so, do individuals enjoy that right regardless of whether they are currently affiliated with a state-regulated militia
organization?

(3) If so, then what purposes, of the various purposes for which individuals may wish to keep or bear arms, are constitutionally
protected?