Mr. Luddite, sir,
If my previous post about seeing a proctologist was rude, I apologize. I was trying to be humorous in a smart-ass way.
Anyway, thanks for providing the link to the IL law. I'm not a lawyer, and not familiar with IL gun law, so trying to understand the full impact of that law was difficult, esp since it referenced other related laws. More about that in a bit.
If people have not been following this thread closely, there's going to be confusion about whether a comment refers to the fed bill or the IL law, making meaningful discussion even more difficult.
Keep in mind that this thread is primarily about the federal bill and the discussion has centered on whether or not there has been misrepresentation about what the bill does or does not do. I understand that if one believes a law is a bad law, one wouldn't want it to be enforced more efficiently. However, I have often heard pro-RKBA folks oppose *new* gun laws by saying that the new law wouldn't be needed if existing laws were better enforced. No one has shown that this bill adds any *new* restrictions that did not already exist in current law. And, my understanding is that the camel's nose has been pushed back a bit by mandating procedures for granting relief from disability *and* specifying that involuntary mental-health hospitalization *must* include the diagnosis of danger to self or others. This appears to be less restrictive than the current law. My position in this thread has been that the notion that this bill is *more* restrictive is unwarranted and, to purposely mislead people about its effect is not helpful to RKBA.
Now, what IL does in regard to its FOID requirements doesn't impact the federal bill one way or the other, and IL could have passed that law absent any federal action. I tried to objectively understand the IL law as best I could by reading it. Sure, it sucks. I especially think the denial of a FOID for any mental health hospitalizations is a travesty. I would hope advocates for the rights of people with mental health issues would oppose this, as well as pro-RKBA advocates. Still, your conjecture about the ease with which a casual doctor visit for "depression" or the actions of a 19 yo desk jockey will prevent one from getting a FOID is not supported by what I'm reading, and is, again, alarmist.
This horse has been beat to death. Good luck fighting the good fight in IL.
K