JB Pritzker’s RIFL Act is moving in Springfield.
Just days after we warned you about HB-3320 — the RIFL Act designed to financially destroy firearm manufacturers in Illinois — the Senate has sent its version to committee.
The Senate version (SB-2279) already has 25 co-sponsors.
Even worse, the bill was referred yesterday to the powerful Senate Executive Committee, where leadership often sends legislation they intend to move quickly.
This is not an accident.
Governor JB Pritzker and his allies intend to push this bill through, and it may happen quickly.
If Pritzker can pass this, the RIFL Act would:
👉 Impose massive new licensing fees on firearm manufacturers based on the state’s claimed “cost of gun violence,” which Pritzker says will be at least $866,000,000 annually.
👉 Make it illegal for firearm dealers to sell guns from manufacturers who refuse to pay the fee, effectively shutting down lawful firearm sales.
👉 Hit firearm dealers with $10,000 fines for every gun sale involving a manufacturer that refuses to comply.
👉 Create a massive government-controlled fund in Springfield financed by these fees.
Perhaps worst of all, the RIFL Act allows violent criminals who get shot while committing violent crimes to GET PAID FROM THIS FUND!
This move is straight out of the Pritzker playbook.
Have the media and organizations talk about one version of a gun control bill, let gun owners protest that bill, then pour the gas on another version before gun owners can react.
But ILFA caught it. And now it’s time for gun owners to flood the Senate Executive Committee with opposition to this bill.
>>>> TELL THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: VOTE NO ON SB-2279! <<<<
Your email will be automatically delivered to the committee members, so they know exactly what gun owners want them to do with this bill before the committee meets.
Pritzker and his allies hoped to sneak this through unnoticed.
With your help, we won’t let that happen.
Your support funds the email alerts, text messages, digital outreach, and legislative pressure campaigns that allow us to respond immediately as gun control advances in Springfield.
The attacks on our rights are constant here in Illinois.
And SB-2279 proves the anti-gun agenda is accelerating.
For Illinois,
Aaron Dorr
Executive Director
Illinois Firearms Association
P.S. Springfield politicians thought they could quietly advance SB-2279, the Senate version of Pritzker’s RIFL Act. That bill is now sitting in the Senate Executive Committee, where leadership often moves legislation quickly.
Send your pre-written email immediately and tell them to vote NO before this bill moves any further.