The Illinois House and the Illinois Senate came through today and over-rode Gov. Quinn's amendatory veto of HB0183.
Unfortunately, the bill gives the State Police 180 days to design an application and another 60 days to approve applications. Assuming they drag their heels, this means early January 2014 before applications become available.
Presumably, the rules and requirements for the required training will become available sooner, so that those wishing to apply will be able to take the necessary course(s) and qualify with their firearms.
Then applicants will submit their paperwork and cool their own heels until the ISP approve their licenses and mail them back.
A super-majority (3/5) was needed in each house to over-ride Gov. Quinn. In the House, 71 votes were needed as a minimum. In the Senate, 36 were needed as a minimum 3/5 vote.
The vote today?
Illinois House of Representatives: 77-31 (10 Representatives did not vote)
Illinois Senate: 41-17 (1 Senator did not vote)
The vote on HB0183 on May 31st was
House: 89-28 (1 MIA)
Senate: 45-12-1 (1 MIA)
So, some ground was lost due to arm-twisting by the Governor, but he didn't lose enough. The headline on chicagotribune.com right now is "Quinn lashes out at lawmakers: They 'surrender' to NRA".
Quinn is a poor loser; that's all. Today The People of Illinois won. The NRA just helped.
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I don't see why Quinn vetoed in the first place. Didn't a judge practically order Illinois to make a concealed carry law (failure to act would result in open carry)? It never made sense to me why gun control proponents would want to drag their feet with the bill or veto the bill. I'd imagine open carry would be a lot scarier for them. Wouldn't they want to work with what they have? Am I close or way off? Sometimes it's hard for us "normies" to understand the political and legal jargon.
Another thing that's on my mind is when the people, the Constitution, and the court all support something, then why would the Governor oppose that? Is this just Quinn being a great big knucklehead or is it something else? I wonder if Quinn is even going to run.
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