The Gun Dr. - Byrna Mission 4

01/07/22 Welcome to this week’s edition of the Gun Doctor. Even though we are all celebrating the new year and hoping for a break from the past, earlier this week the Illinois General Assembly began its 2022 legislative session, but brought along Anti-gun bills from 2021. Senate Amendment to Senate Bill 568 deceptively called the “Fix the FOID Act,” criminalizes private transfers of firearms from one FOID holder to another FOID holder, requires fingerprints for both new FOID applications and renewals, doubles the application fee of a FOID to $20 while cutting the duration to five years, and increases the processing time for a FOID. Current Illinois law already only allows FOID holders to conduct private transfers of firearms to other FOID holders, and state police already do background checks on FOID applicants. Senate Bill 1855 requires firearms be made unavailable for self-defense by imposing one-size-fits-all storage requirements. Safe storage is a matter of personal responsibility, and everyone’s situation is different. Senate Bill 2510 arbitrarily classifies many modern semi-automatic rifles, semi-automatic handguns, and shotguns commonly owned by law-abiding citizens as “assault weapons,” and bans them, along with spare parts and accessories. Citizens who own banned firearms prior to the effective date of the law may continue to possess them only if they register them with state police and pay fees. Well, we decided to bring along a new product that actually debuted...