Illinois Counties Declare "Sanctuary Status" for Gun Owners

[Ohiogal]

"Several rural Illinois counties have taken a stand for gun rights by co-opting a word that conservatives associate with a liberal policy to skirt the law: sanctuary.

At least five counties recently passed resolutions declaring themselves sanctuary counties for gun owners — a reference to so-called sanctuary cities such as Chicago that don’t cooperate with aspects of federal immigration enforcement.

The resolutions are meant to put the Democratic-controlled Legislature on notice that if it passes a host of gun bills, including new age restrictions for certain weapons, a bump stock ban and size limit for gun magazines, the counties might bar their employees from enforcing the new laws."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/illinois-counties-declare-%e2%80%98sanctuary%e2%80%99-status-for-gun-owners/ar-AAwRGWm

[Hoyt]

1. How nice, GOPers get white wing gun-love and hatred for immigrants from the South into one bill.

[Ohiogal]

2. Because you know

ANY type of regulation constitutes "Infringing on my second amendment rights!"

[billh58]

3. How very

right-wing of them. NRA apologists and Second Amendment absolutists all wear the same stripes as their Republican cousins.

[jimmy the one]

4. cherished guns

The resolutions are largely symbolic — a way for communities where guns are cherished and where hunting is a way of life to make the point that they view most restrictions on guns to be unconstitutional.

I suspect they also view that obligation to serve in a well regulated militia or army or navy, to be unconstitutional as well (per scalia heller individual rkba not connected to militia service).

“We wanted to ... get across that our Second Amendment rights are slowly being stripped away,”

Right. Hasn't been a significant federal gun control law over a decade, and 2008 heller & 2011 mcdonald ruled for an individual rkba & incorporation thereof in cities, written by scalia, yet he also wrote that the 2nd amendment was 'not absolute', leaving the door WIDE OPEN for 2nd amendment rights to be 'slowly stripped away'.
Da noive a dat guy scalia, letting da camel into da tent.

The resolutions are largely symbolic — a way for communities where guns are cherished and where hunting is a way of life

Communities where guns are cherished... remember that 1970s song by the Association called Cherish?

Cherish is the word I use to describe
All the feeling that I have Hiding here for you inside
You don't know how many times I've wished that I had told you
You don't know how many times I've wished that I could hold you
You don't know how many times I've wished that I could
Mold you into someone who could Cherish me as much as I cherish you

Oh, I could say I need you But then you'd realize
That I want you Just like a thousand other guys
Who'd say they loved you Like all the rest of their lies
When all they wanted Was to touch your face your hands And gaze into your eyes

And I do Cherish you
And I do Cherish you
Cherish is the word