To: The Illinois State House and Governor J.B. Pritzker

Gov. Quinn: We Need Common Sense Gun Legislation NOW!

It is urgent that we address our gun violence epidemic in Illinois! Please support the Certificate of Handguns Registration Act (HB 5831) in order to close dangerous loopholes in Illinois’ gun laws, promote gun owner accountability, and provide law enforcement with the information and systems necessary to solve gun crimes.

This bill provides two reasonable solutions to save lives in our communities: requiring handguns to be titled just like cars and placing a ban on military style assault weapons. Together, we must urge lawmakers to enact stronger common sense gun laws to protect our communities from this deadly epidemic.

Creemos que las pistolas que requieren ser titulados como los coches y la prohibición de armas de asalto estilo militar de nuestras comunidades son dos soluciones razonables para salvar vidas. Instamos a los legisladores a promulgar leyes más fuertes de armas sentido común para proteger a nuestras comunidades de esta epidemia conocida como la violencia armada.

Why is this important?

The recent gun violence that killed 6-year old Aliyah Shell in Little Village and 7-year old Heaven Sutton on the Westside as well as the massacres in Aurora, CO and Oak Creek, WI demonstrate that we need to pass HB 5831 in Illinois. We believe that requiring handguns to be titled like cars and banning military style assault weapons from our communities are two reasonable solutions to save lives. We urge lawmakers to enact stronger common sense gun laws to protect our communities from this gun violence epidemic. HB 5831 would:

• require all gun owners to register their handguns with the Illinois State Police, and renew that registration every 5 years. The records would be considered private, and would not be released publicly.

• require all gun owners to present a Certificate of Registration issued by the Illinois State Police in order to transfer or possess handguns, and create a Class 2 Felony for falsifying the information.

• require gun owners to report the theft or loss of a firearm to law enforcement within 72 hours of becoming aware of it, and creates a Class A Misdemeanor for the offense.

• generate resources to help shore up thousands of records on dangerously mentally ill and other prohibited persons that are estimated missing from the flawed ISP FOID Card System and the FBI NICS.

El reciente acto de violencia a mano armada que mató a Shell Aliyah de 6 años de edad en La Villita o Sutton Cielo de 7 años al oeste de la ciudad a las masacres en el cine de Aurora, Colorado, y contra la comunidad Sikh en Oak Creek, Wisconsin, demuestran que tenemos poner alto los asesinatos insensatos con armas de fuego. Creemos que requerir que armas de fuego sean registradas como los coches y que prohibir armas de asalto estilo militar en nuestras comunidades son dos soluciones razonables para salvar vidas. Instamos a los legisladores a promulgar leyes más duras con sentido común en contra el uso de armas para proteger a nuestras comunidades de esta epidemia conocida como la violencia armada.