CHICAGO (WLS) — With the load of a liberal supermajority in Springfield, the sale of assault weapons in Illinois is now banned.
So authorized, and typically passionate, gun house owners throughout the state are calling sheriff’s places of work questioning how they will deal with the brand new provision requiring authorized gun house owners to register the assault rifles they already personal.
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A rising cadre of sheriffs within the Chicago space – in McHenry, DeKalb, Kane, DuPage, La Salle, Grundy, and Kankakee counties – have publicly written that they won’t implement the Defend Illinois Communities Act, saying it violates the constitutional proper to bear arms.
“We can’t sacrifice security, however at finish of the day, we imagine we’ve got to do what is true for our personal communities,” stated McHenry County Sheriff Robb Tadelman.
DuPage County Sheriff Jim Mendrick is among the many most up-to-date regulation enforcement chief to say he and his deputies will not be checking to ensure authorized gun house owners have registered their weapons with the state.
The sheriff stated they will not be arresting and holding regulation abiding gun house owners in jail for not complying with the regulation.
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Nevertheless, the DuPage County’s Board president publicly disagrees. She led a vote to ban assault weapons throughout the county after the Fourth of July bloodbath in Highland Park.
“These are people which are entrusted by the general public to implement the regulation. They do not get to decide on which legal guidelines they implement. They have to implement what we have written into the code — the Basic Meeting, signed by the governor, and they’ll achieve this,” stated Governor JB Pritzker.
“They’re on safer floor once they say there are particular parts of the regulation they do not wish to implement, however even that, and saying they will not implement any of the regulation, is simply lawless,” stated ABC7 Authorized Analyst Gil Soffer.
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The sheriffs in each Cook dinner and Lake County, Illinois stated they are going to implement the assault weapons ban.
“It is extremely harmful for me to cherry-pick and implement solely legal guidelines I agree with, or solely legal guidelines I really feel are necessary,” stated the Lake County (IL) Sheriff.
As sheriffs in DuPage County, and elsewhere, take sides, the brand new gun regulation is almost assured to be challenged in courtroom.
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