Illinois Legislature Kills Trigger Modification Bill

By Tom Knighton

Illinois doesn’t have a reputation for being a gun friendly state, which is why it may have seemed like their trigger modification bill was a done deal. After all, aren’t they right up there with California in the “hates private gun ownership” category?

Well, it looks like they’re not quite as anti-gun as some of us might have thought.

A number of downstate Democrats jumped ship and joined Republican lawmakers to oppose a bill targeting semi-automatic firearms that many deemed an overreach.

Needing 71 votes to pass the body, Dems could only garner 48 after several defections bolstered a GOP stand against the bill, designed to restrict any part, or combination of parts, intended to accelerate a gun’s rate of fire without converting it into a machine gun.

“House Bill 4117, as so often happens, was too hastily and poorly crafted in response to a terrible situation,” said state Rep. Allen Skillicorn, R-East Dundee. “Because of this, the bill failed to address the fear it was attempting to protect against and instead would have turned law-abiding citizens into felons had it not failed in the House today.”

Rushed through the House Judiciary Committee on a partisan …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms