Behind the scenes, while everyone is focusing on what’s reporting out of the Judiciary Committee in the federal Senate, things in Illinois have been heating up very quickly, and now they need to hear from gun owners there, once again.

The fight is over a magazine ban. A ten round magazine ban limit was defeated on a house floor vote by 57-59, which is a real squeaker. This bill had no grandfathering. Now the leadership are trying to come up with the votes to get it done, and it’s a very fluid situation. We need people to light em up and flood their phone banks and e-mail servers.

Do I have enough for a news dump? I guess we’ll see. Yesterday was a club meeting, and I expected it to be a particularly contentious one. We also introduced ourselves to the leaders of a local pro-gun movement upstart here in the County on Monday, so time has been scarce. But I’ll give a news dump a good college try:

Gun Culture 2.0 is breaking out all over.

Ignorance can be deadly.

Fear of just about everything. In the taxonomy of gun control supports, you have the fearful, and the condescending. Sure, there are the concerned Americans, but they are a rarer member of the genus.

3D Printer Maker speaks at SXSW. Gun control is an obsolete concept. Clayton Cramer notes a rapidly expanding supply of STL files.

All your base… We are everywhere.

The AR-15 and CT gun companies.

More attacks on SAFE, and about 40 folks in Clinton County turn out to support a resolution denouncing SAFE.

The ammo shortage is not, repeat not, a conspiracy.

Obama is bringing up the armor piercing bullets canard again.

Mark Kelly tries to turn in his AR to the cops, well, how it might go if he really tried. Apparently he also does not know it’s unlawful to sell a gun to someone in another state.

We’ve here in America have eaten all the birds, and constantly drink coffee made from snow. I’m going to guess both of these are common practice in North Korea.

Utah scores dead last in Brady rankings, but how does its crime compared to California?

Apparently the IL governor and Attorney General are at odds as to whether to appeal the 7th circuit ruling to the Supreme Court.

And don’t forget, today the Senate Judiciary Committee will be taking up the Wicked Witch of the West’s gun ban. UPDATE: The danger of posting ahead. Already reported out of Committee, though it wasn’t when I wrote this.

The New York Times reports the semi-auto ban has passed out of committee on a party line vote:

“The road is uphill. I fully understand that,” said Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, the sponsor of the bill, after its passage in the committee. “My passion comes from what I’ve seen on the streets,” she said, adding, “I cannot get out of my mind trying to find the pulse in someone and putting my fingers in a bullet hole.”

Hey, you know what millions of law abiding American gun owners did not do? Shoot Harvey Milk. Well, folks, now we have a floor fight on our hands. These are dangerous times we live in. Apparently Ted Cruz really went after Feinstein.

UPDATE: More from John Richardson, who has details on the Amendment game being played by the GOP.

Their version of the intolerable act failed to pass by several votes. Hopefully the rest of their agenda suffers the same fate, but this is quite promising. Why would Democrats want to jump on the sinking ship?