Governor Pat Quinn's "Assault Weapons" Ban Defeated (Illinois)

[DonP]

13. A few Illinois facts

We have no rifle season for deer hunting, so no "assault weapons" in the field. There's a black powder and archery season, then a shotgun season. So there isn't any one going hunting with an "assault weapon" (Made up term anyway). I'm not sure if we have a handgun season for deer.

The states that do allow a rifle season limit most rifles to 3 rounds in the gun.

Most states don't allow deer hunting with the .223/5.56 round used in most AR's or the AK equivalent rounds, because they are just too weak for a humane one shot kill. In general the century plus old 30-30 lever action or a 30-06 bolt action is used far more than anything else for North American game.

For your own gratification look up how many actual crimes and murders have been committed with a "dreaded" 50 caliber rifle. You'll be able to count them nationally for the last decade on one hand and have plenty of fingers left to pick your nose, should you choose to. But again, it gets ignorant (small i) people worked up and reaching for their checkbooks with feigned outrage over something that doesn't exist.

The Aurora Colorado shooting, the only recent one I can recall that used a rifle of any kind, had the rifle jam with the stupid beta mag knock off, and most injuries were from the plain vanilla shotgun he had. How come no one is trying to control them now? Probably because it's hard to whip up a moral frenzy over grandpas old 12 gauge pump, but something called an "assault weapon" that looks evil ... boy, that gets everybody excited.

I use the AR's I built for target shooting in matches. 200 and 600 yards. FYI, only about 20% of all gun owners hunt at all.