Bill Text: IL HR0134 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges Congress to require replica gun manufacturers to design these guns to be bright colors.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8)
Status: (Passed) 2015-03-05 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr. [HR0134 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HR0134-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The House of Representatives recognizes the | ||||||
| 3 | safety dilemma that replica guns pose to the public and the | ||||||
| 4 | persons who carry them; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, These replica guns are identical in appearance to | ||||||
| 6 | real firearms and are indistinguishable from fully functioning | ||||||
| 7 | firearms; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, Even law enforcement officers have a difficulty | ||||||
| 9 | distinguishing them from real firearms; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, The inability of law enforcement officers to | ||||||
| 11 | distinguish replica guns from real firearms has resulted in | ||||||
| 12 | tragedy such as the incident in Cleveland, Ohio, where a | ||||||
| 13 | 12-year-old boy, Tamir Rice, who had been reported to police | ||||||
| 14 | for displaying a gun in a park and was shot dead by police as he | ||||||
| 15 | reached for the replica gun; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, The problem of replica guns is a national issue | ||||||
| 17 | and should be addressed by uniform legislation by Congress; and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, We urge the Congress of the United States to enact | ||||||
| 19 | legislation that would require the manufacturers of replica | ||||||
| 20 | guns to design them to be distinguishable from real firearms so | ||||||
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| 1 | as to protect the public and law enforcement; therefore, be it
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| 2 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 3 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 4 | urge the Congress of the United States to require replica gun | ||||||
| 5 | manufacturers to design these guns to be bright colors; and be | ||||||
| 6 | it further
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| 7 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this Resolution be | ||||||
| 8 | presented to each member of the Illinois Congressional | ||||||
| 9 | delegation.
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