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| Sen. McCann |
Sen. McCann, from Jacksonville, Ill., has introduced SB3362 with language for the concealed carry law (430 ILCS 66/ ) that removed the waiver of "privacy and confidential rights and privileges under ALL [emphasis added] federal and state laws..." His bill replaces the offensive language in Sec. 30(b)(3) with a sensible authorization and release for certain records.
Go to www.ilga.gov Then enter SB3362 in the field on the left to read the synopsis of the bill, and click further to read the entire proposed bill.
SB3362 provides "that the information provided by the authorization and release is limited to the sole purpose of determining whether the applicant is disqualified from obtaining a concealed carry license" (from the synopsis of the Bill).
This is the way that the original concealed carry bill should have been written, rather than requiring the forfeiture of all federal and state rights to privacy and confidentiality. The Illinois General Assembly (Senators and Representatives) should be ashamed of themselves for pulling the wool over the eyes of Illinois residents in the manner they did, and the NRA and the ISRA should not have rolled over on us, after claiming they had the votes to block a bad law. They didn't, and they failed to warn their members about Sec. 30(b)(3).
More than 40,000 Illinois residents have rushed to apply for concealed carry licenses and have signed away their rights and privileges to privacy and confidentiality under ALL federal and state laws. When they inserted their electronic signatures in that field on the electronic application for the concealed carry license, that's exactly what they did.
Those rights are gone. Will they be able to get them restored? How hard with that fight be?
Want to thank Sen. McCann? Email him at senatorsam@frontier.com or call (217) 245-0050.
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