The Illinois House of Representatives spent little time yesterday in voting 77-31 to override anti-gun Governor Pat Quinn’s “amendatory veto” of concealed carry legislation. The Senate held considerable debate, but ultimately voted 41-17 to override Quinn, paving the way for concealed carry. The vote is seen as a serious political setback for Quinn and his attempt to make significant changes to the law passed last week.
“Gov. Quinn was ill-advised to try rewriting the state’s concealed carry law to suit his personal anti-gun civil rights agenda,” said the Second Amendment Foundation’s Alan Gottlieb. “While the new statute is not perfect, it is a huge step forward to comply with the Seventh Circuit Court’s ruling in Moore v. Madigan.”
The Moore v. Madigan was a suit brought by the SAF to force Illinois to take action on concealed carry legislation. “It is time for Illinois residents to join citizens in every other state,” Gottlieb said. “If Gov. Quinn and other gun prohibitionists need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century, where all civil rights – including the right to bear arms – are recognized, that’s their fault. They tried to transpose the Second Amendment from a fundamental civil right to a heavily-regulated privilege, and that is not what the court ruling allowed him to do. We welcome Illinois to the United States of America,”
