by John Boch
GSL Executive Director
SCOTUS
The gun and magazine ban cases Snope and Ocean State Tactical are back in play for consideration by the US Supreme Court. If accepted, SCOTUS would set them for next court term, starting in October.
That might get us a decision by Christmas, but more likely in the Spring 2026. The latest would be the end of June 2026.
As noted Supreme Court watcher Chris Johnson noted in an email to me, “The game is back from half-time.” Indeed.
IL General Assembly
Already there have been some crazy anti-gun proposals in this new session.
By and large we in the gun rights community are ignoring them and I’ll tell you why: We don’t have the votes to stop gun control bills. It doesn’t matter if we have five paid lobbyists in Springfield or 500, it will not matter. If the Democrats want to pass a gun control bill, there’s nothing we can do. We don’t have the votes. Heck, we can’t even keep the Republican caucus in line.
I know I received a fundraising mailer recently from a gun rights org. “Without (this group) only one side gets heard!” the envelope touted.
These men (pictured above) couldn’t give a damn what gun owners have to say.
Guess what else? The people running Springfield don’t listen to what gun owners think, except for one thing and that’s to help them make their bad bills better.
GSL is done helping them improve their poorly written bills, and so are most of the other gun rights groups throughout the state and noted legislative strategists like Dan Eldridge and Todd Vandermyde.
Todd and I have been advocating this “don’t help them fix it before they pass it” position since the Gun Dealer Licensing fiasco, but only finally now it seems like pretty much the rest of the gun groups are following that as well. Remember, the worse the bill, the easier it is to overturn in court.
Gun Confiscation signed.
Pritzker signed the gun confiscation without due process bill in early February. Hopefully none of us will get hit by one of these and get a visit from the local PD or sheriff with a warrant to poke around our house looking for guns, gun parts and ammunition.
Sure, you probably think it could never happen to you. I hope it doesn’t. But these Emergency Orders of Protection are borderline common practice in divorces.
Even if you’re happily married, you should be very careful what you say to health care providers, school officials, mental health practitioners and other mandated reporters. Lest you find yourself spend a few thousand dollars and several months dealing with the State Police to restore your gun rights over a poorly considered flippant remark.
I apologize to the ISRA
I apologize to the ISRA’s leadership for ruffling feathers in contrasting their most recent issue of The Illinois Shooter with our GunNews on our website.
Both were published in the days following the passage of a first-of-its-kind bill to confiscate guns in Illinois without due process.
We chose to feature the gun confiscation bill on our front page. The ISRA chose to instead report on Biden’s BATF director submitting his resignation in December (as everyone expected) and urging Trump to nominate a solid candidate for BATF director.
At Guns Save Life, we strive to include the best, most relevant content to not only help make you a better, more-informed gun owner, but to help keep you out of jail too.
We also include material for how to keep your family safe, secure and to help you and your friends thrive during adversity.
This content, provided by our resident member experts, guest contributors and some of the best content from the web is why we’ve built our reputation for such a solid publication.
In fact, GunNews has also helped us build a very successful, very pro-active grassroots gun rights organization in the Land of Lincoln.
My contrast of the headlines from our respective January publications wasn’t meant as an attack in ISRA or its leadership, just upon what I saw as a marginal choice for the cover story. Here’s my apology for anyone who took it as an attack. I’m sorry.
Seems clear enough to me; the only god in Illinois is Satan
There’s no need to apologize to the ISRA leadership. They’re the ones who negotiated with terrorists for “a seat at the table” and betrayed law-abiding IL gun owners.