Implementation of new controls published

[lilguy]

From the Illinois state police. Second referenced point on voluntary compliance is interesting.

https://isp.illinois.gov/Media/PressReleaseFile/850

Items of immediate note when reading through the rule:

• They are sticking to the requirement that you must have possessed anything you file an "Endorsement Affidavit" for prior to the law being signed.
• The endorsement requires that you affirm, under penalty of perjury, that you are "filing an endorsement affidavit voluntarily" which doesn't seem possible as mandated by law is completely the opposite of voluntary.
• If your FOID is revoked for any reason at all, you have a choice to make. You can either transfer your items to someone else "consistent with the provisions of [PICA]" (eg, a FFL) and never get them back, or you can transfer them to the police.. and probably never get them back. FOID Revocations can be challenged, but it seems that you would have to turn over your items to the police (and then likely sue them, at great expense) to have any possibility to have them returned. This includes magazines and attachments in addition to weapons and ammo.

 

[Hooda Thunkit]

What in the world are you talking ?

 

[lilguy]

Illinois new AWB, ( AW registration)

We are required to give the Illinois State Police detailed information on any firearm or accessory covered by the new statute under penalty of law, up to a felony. We are to affirm that the gun or accessory was owned before the law was enacted and that we are doing all this voluntarily.

You become UUW felon as of 01/01/24 if you don’t comply. But you must attest that you are complying voluntarily. No one is doing this voluntarily. You are doing it because the state will punish if you don’t.
We are being told to lie on a government document to keep our guns legally.

 

[CapnMac]

For form's sake, here in Legal, this probably needs doe links & citations to the actual IL Code. That we can read and discuss it as written.

 

[lilguy]

I attached, in my first post, the regulations being implemented by the Illinois State Police. Press release with the final directive from them. They are charged with enforcing our gun laws. They have been given unlimited authority to expand the list of controlled items.
Sorry I don’t know what else to offer.
Please help me understand how one can be required to attest that they are complying with a law voluntarily if there is a felony threat if you don’t?