Illinois's concealed carry bill version supported by Illinois Carry & ISRA & NRA will be voted on in the next few hours.
The bill has been posted online, but the main lobbyist on our side has requested a specifics discussion blackout until the bill is voted. We don't want to give the other side any heads up on things our side put in or complaints that they can tighten or pivot on.
Situation:
-Fed appeals court said we need some kind of carry by June 9th, that is when Unlawful Use of Weapon is struck and we go to Constitution carry if nothing is passed
-Senate is expected to follow lead of House
-Homerule: we need 71/118* votes to have all state pre-emption (super duper majority)
-Both House and Senate are super majority Dem, with anti Gov and anti speaker of House
-House votes- last time around on this we were like 3-5 votes short of 71, today we give it another go
-Past few weeks we have been battling and beating some bad bills (may issue, carve outs for chi-town, public transport, and similar), we got the majority votes to prevent something bad, but not quite enough to pass something good
-With constitution carry clock winding down, here is hoping the leverage is good enough to push through a good bill
*Edited to correct: There are 118 State Representatives, not 100. There are also 59 State Senators. Don't ask me why such odd numbers. - Scout26