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Illinois Residents
ndbilly
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It's difficult, as you know, to keep track of the endless anti-gun measures introduced by the Daleycrats in Springfield. When did this one get through?
Was looking at a BP rifle in .32 percussion and the web site had a disclaimer saying that, "...due to regulations..." they could not ship to NJ or IL. I have purchased BP arms for years here and had them delivered by UPS or FedX. Is this just some manufacturer who has made an arbitrary decision or did we lose yet more ground? I know Lisa, "I made it on my own" Madigan stopped ammo sales via the internet a few years ago but was unaware of this situation, if indeed it is one.
Enlightenment appreciated.
Was looking at a BP rifle in .32 percussion and the web site had a disclaimer saying that, "...due to regulations..." they could not ship to NJ or IL. I have purchased BP arms for years here and had them delivered by UPS or FedX. Is this just some manufacturer who has made an arbitrary decision or did we lose yet more ground? I know Lisa, "I made it on my own" Madigan stopped ammo sales via the internet a few years ago but was unaware of this situation, if indeed it is one.
Enlightenment appreciated.
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For black powder rifles, I immagine it's the same.
Lisa "Mad" Madigan did threaten a bunch of online catalog houses with lawsuits if they sold ammo to IL residents. To get around that send them a copy of your foid.
Go figure.
Bill
Really you just have to know where to buy. For ammo I have a copy of my foid card on file with some of the major online ammo sellors.
For black powder rifles, I immagine it's the same.
Lisa "Mad" Madigan did threaten a bunch of online catalog houses with lawsuits if they sold ammo to IL residents. To get around that send them a copy of your foid.
Last time I tried to buy ammo online, I was told that the interpretation of "presenting a FOID card" was that it had to be presented in person. What companies will accept the faxed copy?
do all of the ill residents like living this way? this sounds like a group of kids trying to get around dad grounding you. dont take this personaly but if that state is so anti gun why stay there when its aginst the way you want to live. JMHO
$tuck here for two more years.
quote:Originally posted by drobs
Really you just have to know where to buy. For ammo I have a copy of my foid card on file with some of the major online ammo sellors.
For black powder rifles, I immagine it's the same.
Lisa "Mad" Madigan did threaten a bunch of online catalog houses with lawsuits if they sold ammo to IL residents. To get around that send them a copy of your foid.
Last time I tried to buy ammo online, I was told that the interpretation of "presenting a FOID card" was that it had to be presented in person. What companies will accept the faxed copy?
I don't live in Crook Co. but I have my Foid on file with Sportsman's Guide and Aim Surplus, never had a problem getting ammo from them.
I have bought black powder guns through the internet shipped to my door w/ no foid. I won't post where here though.
do all of the ill residents like living this way? this sounds like a group of kids trying to get around dad grounding you. dont take this personaly but if that state is so anti gun why stay there when its aginst the way you want to live. JMHO
It's not so much a matter of what IL residents like or don't like; it's the fact that the population is so concentrated in and around Chicago...probably the most corrupt political machine since Tammany Hall...that the tail wags the dog. Hizzoner Richard J.Daley, Mayor of Chicago, who essentially, controls the Democratic Party in Illinois, is rabidly anti-gun. (There's no public hunting or shooting in Chicago/Cook County, so he has, for practical purposes, no "sportsman" voters to placate.)
In the last election, our current Democratic Governor (the former congressional rep for a Chicago district) carried less than 10% of the counties and still won. Actually, he didn't even poll a majority because a third-party candidate pulled around 10% of the popular vote leaving our fearless leader with something like a 47% plurality. Add the fact that both the Speaker of the Illinois House and the President of the Illinois Senate are from Chicago legislative districts and it becomes pretty obvious where the power lies. (Oh yeah: Lisa Madigan, the current Illinois Attorney General, confirmed apostle of Sarah Brady, and, quite possibly next governor, is the daughter of the Speaker of the Illnois House.)
Like ndbilly, I'm only a couple years away from retirement at which time, I'll most likely be changing my legal residency to someplace more "shooter-friendly."