Priority · Rights and the outdoors
Second Amendment
Hunting and self-defense matter in the 87th. Bill is a proud member of the Illinois State Rifle Association and wants the outdated FOID card gone.
A rifle association member, in plain words
Bill puts his position on the Second Amendment in the first person, and it is short enough to quote whole: “Hunting and self-defense are important to the people of the 87th district. I am a proud member of the Illinois State Rifle Association and I believe that there needs to be more guns in the hands of good people.”
Read plainly, that is two things at once. It is a statement about how people in this part of Illinois actually live, with hunting and self-defense both treated as ordinary parts of life. And it is a statement about his own membership: he belongs to the Illinois State Rifle Association and says so up front.
A tree stand on a cottonwood at the edge of creek-bottom timber at frosty dawn
Timber, creek bottoms and the people who hunt them
This is not an abstract issue for Bill. By his own account he owns hunting land with friends in Tremont and Hopedale, and his wife, Shelley, grew up in Tremont. He was born and raised in Morton, spent fifteen years in Mackinaw, and moved back to Morton in 2018.
That is the district he is describing when he writes that hunting matters to the people of the 87th. He is also a physician who has worked as an emergency doctor at OSF Saint Francis since 2003, so his working life has been in the same region.
What he says he will do about the FOID card
On what comes next, he is direct: “I will be a strong supporter in protecting our second amendment rights, and eliminating the unnecessary and outdated FOID card.”
That sentence is the whole of the commitment on his Goals page: protect Second Amendment rights, and work to eliminate the FOID card, which he calls unnecessary and outdated. If you want to ask him about it face to face, the events page lists how to meet him, or you can call the campaign.
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