Via Arms and The Law and IllinoisCarry, we have the VPC and Brady Endorsed 'reasonable, common-sense' gun ban on 'pocket rockets', introduced by Brady Endorsed "Hot Rod" Blagojevich when he was a US Representative.
It banned any handgun w/ a "total length of less than 7 1/2 inches".
Just to put that in perspective. Glock "standard size" handguns like the 17 or 22 have a rated length of less than 7.5". Adding in the grip angle might increase it to above that for some but not for others.
A 1911 A1 has a 'total length' of 8.25". The barrel is a hair under 7.5".
Yet looking at the bill itself, the word 'total' isn't there. What would the 'measure' be? Barrel length? Total length? What?
Not that it really matters. The entire point of this bill, as is usual with anti-gun bills, was not to reduce crime, but to eliminate Concealed Carry and to marginalize handgun ownership to larger individuals, mostly males, as the transfer and manufacture of anything small enough would be banned. "Only Ones" excepted of course.
This is what they get when they vote for people who think like this. This is what they deserve.
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Glock "standard size" handguns like the 17 or 22 have a rated length of less than 7.5".
As do the Kimber Ultra Carry 1911s with the 3" barrel, which come in at 6.8 inches. The Pro Carry with the 4" barrel clocks in at 7.7 inches.
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