A Republican state senator from Plainfield has made a call for a change in the Illinois Constitution regarding citizens rights when it comes to bearing arms.
Article 1, Section 22 gives residents the right to bear arms, but adds a qualification. The section says "Subject only to the police power, the right of the individual citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
According to transcripts of the 1970 Constitutional Convention, these words were added to the Amendment. Leonard Foster, a delegate to the Convention from the west side of Chicago, stated four times on the convention floor that the language would allow for a total ban on handguns. This speech has been used in Illinois courts to uphold bans on handguns according to Petka.
This is a good sign indeed. We need to take the offensive, and clearly the Illinois state senator wants to do just that.
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