{"id":37103,"date":"2013-07-03T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37103"},"modified":"2013-07-03T09:01:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T14:01:40","slug":"the-chicago-way-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37103","title":{"rendered":"IL Governor Quinn Wants To Paymar Gun Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Governor Pat Quinn vetoed the Illinois Legislature&#8217;s <em>bipartisan <\/em>firearm carry bill that would have brought the state into compliance with court orders and also the Second Amendment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bear in mind that the bill passed Illinois&#8217; legislature by a <em>veto-proof majority.\u00a0 <\/em>Quinn&#8217;s only goal would seem to be to try to paymar the bill (to lard it up with bitchy little measures to punish the law-abiding gun owner and make anti-gun zealots feel better about themselves that will affect crime not in the least).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/politics\/clout\/chi-quinn-expected-to-use-amendatory-veto-powers-on-concealed-carry-bill-tuesday-20130701,0,6816106.story\">The fight is just beginning<\/a>, of course:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Bill sponsor, Rep. Brandon] Phelps said he expects lawmakers to return to Springfield next week and override the governor&#8217;s changes. [Phelps expects Quinn to propose paymars that]include limiting the number of firearms a person could carry to one \u2014 the bill has no limit \u2014 and requiring that the weapon be completely concealed, not just partially hidden. Phelps said he also believes the governor will ban guns from all places that serve alcohol, not just businesses where booze makes up the majority of sales. The governor also could strip out a provision that would allow people to store a loaded gun in their car and leave it there should they be banned from bringing it into a building.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His next step?\u00a0 Require law-abiding gun owners to wear aluminum foil pants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Governor Pat Quinn vetoed the Illinois Legislature&#8217;s bipartisan firearm carry bill that would have brought the state into compliance with court orders and also the Second Amendment.\u00a0 Bear in mind that the bill passed Illinois&#8217; legislature by a veto-proof majority.\u00a0 Quinn&#8217;s only goal would seem to be to try to paymar the bill (to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37107,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37103\/revisions\/37107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}