In the wake of the deadly shooting in Las Vegas, politicians from both sides of the aisle seemed interested in banning bump stocks, an accessory used by the shooter to make a semi-automatic weapon fire as rapidly as a fully automatic weapon. But the Illinois House of Representatives rejected a ban on bump stocks Oct. 26, and what makes it interesting is how the votes were apportioned. Democrats outnumber Republicans by far in the Illinois House, but the fault line lay not along political party, but urban vs. rural. "State Rep. Martin Moylan's prohibition on 'trigger modifications' got only 48 of the 71 votes it would have needed to pass. Fifty-four members of the Democratic-controlled House voted against it," John O'Connor reports for the Associated Press.
"Moylan's bill defined trigger modification as any after-market alteration 'intended to accelerate the rate of fire of a firearm,' which critics complained is virtually universal" and would hurt sports shooting, O'Connor reports.
O'Connor's story supports the theory that it's more useful to view America's growing political divide as not primarily Democrats vs. Republicans, but rather urban vs. rural.
from The Rural Blog http://ift.tt/2gHUbpM Illinois House rejects bump stock ban in vote split along rural and urban lines, not party - Entrepreneur Generations
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