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We Will Not Comply: Only .1% of Illinois Gun Owners Have Registered Their Newly Banned Guns So Far<\/a><\/p>\n

According to Illinois State Police data, 2,415,481 gun\u00a0owners call the Land o\u2019 Lincoln home. Earlier this year, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the so-called\u00a0Protect Illinois Communities Act<\/a>\u00a0into law which banned the most many of the most popular guns used for self-defense. Under the law, existing owners of these now\u00a0verboten<\/em>\u00a0firearms must register their guns by January 1, 2024 or face felony charges.<\/p>\n

Four weeks into the gun\u00a0registration window,\u00a0exactly 2430 of those FOID holders<\/a>\u00a0have registered their guns, accessories, or .50 caliber firearms. That works out to .1006%, or about one in a thousand.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s even more remarkable is the number of FOID holders choosing to comply has fallen with each passing week.<\/p>\n

In other words, Illinois gun\u00a0owners have declined to participate in the state\u2019s gun\u00a0ban.<\/p>\n

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Granted, not all FOID holders own the guns that are now banned under the law. However, given the popularity of America\u2019s favorite rifle, the AR-15, not to mention semi-auto shotguns, sales numbers suggest that the majority of them have at least one semi-auto rifle or shotgun in their collection. Or perhaps (gasp!) a handgun with a threaded barrel.<\/p>\n

As the Executive Director of\u00a0Guns Save Life<\/a>, I\u2019ve heard from gun\u00a0owners across the state.\u00a0 GSL has meetings in 11 throughout Illinois each month. The resounding answer I hear is, \u201cRegister my guns? Hell no.\u201d The second most common reply is that they\u2019re planning on taking most, if not all of their banned guns out of state ahead of the January 1 deadline.<\/p>\n

Either way,\u00a0Guns Save Life has taken the position<\/a>\u00a0that gun\u00a0owners should\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0register anything. In fact, \u201cDO NOT REGISTER\u201d is the cover story in this\u00a0month\u2019s issue of\u00a0GunNews<\/em><\/a>. That\u2019s probably a source of irritation to Governor Pritzker and the Illinois State Police.<\/p>\n

After week one, when the compliance rate stood at .04%, William Kirk published a video entitled, \u201cThe State That Won\u2019t Comply.\u201d<\/p>\n