More gun restrictions possible for Ill.

ILLINOIS (WTHI) - Since the presidential election, gun owners say ammunition prices have more than doubled.

Now one lawmaker in Illinois wants to mandate gun owners in the Land of Lincoln purchase a million dollar liability insurance policy each year in order to keep their guns.

Representative Kenneth Dunkin proposed Illinois House Bill 0687 in early February.

He says the money collected would keep taxpayers from footing hospital or funeral expenses for people killed by gun violence.

"There is a cost associated with loss of life through one's negligence," said Dunkin. "This is closing an economic gap so you the taxpayer won't have to continue to pay."

Gun activists in Illinois say this is just another back door way to limit Second Amendment rights.

"If they can't take them away, they try to drive up the prices where people can't afford to use them," said Randy Sutton, owner of Crazy Horse Guns and Archery in Paris, Ill. "That's one of their many ways of doing it. Not coming straight at you with something because it was too unpopular."

Representative Dunkin expects this would cost gun owners between $200 and $400 each year.

Gun owners we talked to said any bill turning gun owners into criminals when they have not committed a crime is unlawful in itself.

"Instead of taking care of people that do the crime they keep trying to make the honest people into the bad guys," said Sutton.

If the law is passed and you're caught uninsured, your FOID card will be taken away.

If passed, the law could go into effect by January, 2010.

Click here for Representative Dunkin's contact information.