Continuing Non Compliance

The Tribune notices something is amiss:

• A federal judge in southern Illinois who earlier this year put a hold on the state’s gun ban — a decision that was reversed on appeal — on Tuesday heard arguments on a challenge to the registration process for guns grandfathered in under the law.

  U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn indicated he was not inclined to issue an injunction that would put off the Jan. 1 deadline for Illinois residents to register guns covered by the ban with Illinois State Police.

  “I think that there’s a mess here and there’s some problems, and I haven’t made my mind up,” McGlynn said during a hearing in his East St. Louis courtroom. “But I do think that entering an injunction today may create more problems than it’s worth.”

More trouble because the US Supreme Court has requested briefs from the State of Illinois for an expedited hearing that might negate the entire endeavor. 

And what did the Tribune notice? (They must be watching this youtube.com site)

• The requirement that residents who owned guns banned as of Jan. 10, 2023, registered them with the state had met stiff resistance, although since the process began in Oct. 1 6,141 gun owners have registered nearly 12,100 guns and about 6,250 firearm accessories or other firearm components covered by the ban, according to state records from Dec. 8.

  The degree of compliance is impossible to determine, but the number of people who had registered as of Dec. 8 represented just a little over 0.25% of the 2.4 million people in the state holding FOID cards, the state-mandated permits that authorize residents to own guns.

Compliance is at twenty-five-HUNDREDTHS of one-percent, meaning that roughly, if you have 10,000 citizens with an item to be registered, 9,975 of them are going to be felons starting on 01 January. And that's not even counting the criminals who wouldn't register anything anyway.

Well done Illinois. Well done.