Month: March 2018
A bill requiring 18-20 year olds to hand over or transfer ownership of heretofore legally possessed “assault weapons” is gaining sponsors in the Illinois Senate after passing the House last month.
The bill, HB 1465, was sponsored in the House by Rep. Michelle Mussman (D-Schaumburg) and passed by a vote of 64-51 on February 28.
After being introduced in the upper house by Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago), the bill has added seven co-sponsors in the last week. Notable among them was Sen. Jim Oberweis (R-Sugar Grove), the NRA “A” rated 2014 Republican nominee for U.S. Senate.
The NRA-ILA described the weapons covered by HB 1465 as “commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms.” The bill also requires 18-20-year-olds to forfeit ownership of any magazines that hold more than ten rounds of ammunition.
The guns and magazines remain legal for persons 21 and up, but persons under 21 would have 90 days to give up ownership, should HB 1465 become law.
Fox 2 reports that critics of Mussman’s bill were taken aback by “the idea that the government would confiscate property.” Mussman responded to these concerns by assuring them “authorities will not visit homes to pick up weapons.” Rather, “a first offense for getting caught with prohibited firearms would be a misdemeanor offense.”
The push to force 18-20 year olds to give up the enumerated semiautomatic firearms is now under consideration by the Illinois Senate.
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Guns of the 17th Century
It was during this time that the Role of Gunpowder really started to take off as the main ingredient of any European Army. There by making the Infantry man the hard core of the Army.
Instead of the Cavalry, which had up to then had been the Arm of Decision.
Now for the majority of Folks. They were issued either a Matchlock. Which was basically a Pipe attached to a wood stock and a lock system with a burning cord that had been soaked in sulphur.
Unless you were a Pikeman. Whose job was to protect the Musketeer from attacking Cavalry. Then you carried a long stick with a steel blade of some sort on the end.
Since the Musketeer did not have a Bayonet to protect himself in a melee.
The Other Guns of this Period – The Wheelock
Now this was a very expensive but more reliable firearm. How it worked was a complex system of springs and flint. Which was required the user to tighten down a spring with a key.
Then when the trigger was pulled. The spring was released and causing a ring of spring to rub against a flint. Causing sparks to appear and hopefully ignition.
Needless to say this system was restricted to The Rich and most Cavalry Units.
All I know was that I would not like to be shot at by one of these.
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