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A memo circulating online confirmed to The Center Square by
Illinois State Police said additional requirements of Illinois’
Protect Illinois Communities Act, the state’s ban on certain
semi-automatic firearms and magazines, require people with not
just the banned firearms, but “assault weapons attachments,” to
“have provided an endorsement affidavit signed under oath to the
ISP no later than Jan. 1, 2024.” Noncompliance could lead to
criminal penalties.
Gun
rights advocate Todd Vandermyde said registering parts is
unworkable.
“For certain people, it’s going to be impossible to comply,”
Vandermyde told WMAY. “I was cleaning off a table the other day
and I started finding all kinds of parts that I forgot I had;
hammers, triggers, springs.”
The other issue is about what he called “common parts.”
“This part will work on a shotgun that’s legal. It will work on
an AR over here that’s illegal,” Vandermyde said. “How do you
delineate that?”
Vandermyde expects more legal challenges to try and block the
registry.
“There are groups that are having conversations about how to
tackle the registration issue as it gets closer to an
implementation date, depending on what the court of appeals
does,” he said.
State police are set to open the portal for registration
beginning Oct. 1, with a Jan. 1 deadline to file an affidavit.
Vandermyde questioned the ability for ISP to manage such a
system.
“We know how good they are at websites. Just look at the
disaster that is the [Federal Firearms Licensees] website,” he
said.
Adding to the concern could be that in August 2021, hackers
attempted to breach the ISP Firearm Owners ID database, possibly
exposing more than 2,000 individuals’ private information.
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