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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF ILLINOIS SENATE BILL 2801 AND HOUSE BILL 4471
WHEREAS, federal and state statutes long imposed stringent prohibitions on the manufacture, sale, transfer, and possession of fully automatic firearms, including machine guns, in recognition of their inherently indiscriminate lethality and profound threat to public safety; and
WHEREAS, recent technological adaptations enabled certain semi-automatic handguns to be illicitly modified into fully automatic weapons through the installation of a diminutive, yet highly dangerous device commonly referred to as a "switch," often composed of plastic or metal and readily obtainable through unlawful channels; and
WHEREAS, once converted, these firearms can discharge ammunition at an alarming rate of up to 1,200 rounds per minute, rendering them exceedingly difficult to control and exponentially increasing the likelihood of mass casualty incidents, collateral damage, and loss of innocent life; and
WHEREAS, once converted, these firearms can discharge ammunition at an alarming rate of up to 1,200 rounds per minute, rendering them exceedingly difficult to control and exponentially increasing the likelihood of mass casualty incidents, collateral damage, and loss of innocent life; and
WHEREAS, the proliferation of such conversion devices directly correlates with a troubling escalation in gun violence across urban and suburban communities alike, undermining decades of public safety progress and placing an undue burden on law enforcement, emergency responders, and healthcare systems; and
WHEREAS, evidence indicates a limited number of firearm manufacturers are cognizant of the susceptibility of certain semi-automatic handgun models to facile conversion, yet continued manufacturing, distributing, and marketing such weapons without sufficient design modifications or safeguards to mitigate this risk; and
WHEREAS, Illinois Senate Bill 2801 and House Bill 4471, sponsored by Senator ...
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