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You should read this. It's at American Handgunner. "Unlikely Allies" is the title. Here's an excerpt: “They told us capitalism was wrong because lots of power could be held by a relatively small group,” Purple-Stripe explained. “But it’s clear they want to replace it with a system where another…
Retired after almost 40 years of serving Chicago. And a pair of depraved thugs broke into his house and shot him in the neck *after* he told them where the safe was. If a retired Chicago cop isn't safe in his home in Chicago - the home of the state's…
It's now completely legal to record your local police officers. In fact, it may be completely legal to record any conversation now that Illinois Draconian eavesdropping law was struck down last week by the Illinois Supreme Court. We didn't think this was all that significant, but our trusted advisers and…
[caption id="attachment_11653" align="alignnone" width="600"] Garry McCarthy: "It's HIS fault!" he says, pointing at the guy behind him.[/caption] Just another Friday and early Saturday in Chicago. Man, 61, held on $75K in fatal East Garfield Park stabbing of home health aide Police: Man fatally shot in Englewood, 2 others shot Shootings…
Denial. It isn't just a river in Egypt. It would seem as though the first batch of denial letters have gone out from the Illinois State Police. The letters (of which we've now seen two) go like this: "In reviewing your application for a Concealed Carry License, the Illinois State…
Illinois Gun Owners Rights scored a public relations coup with the revelation of what's being taught at Grant Middle School in Springfield, IL. This hits home to me because I lived not too far from this school during the summers while I was in college. What they are teaching? The…
[caption id="attachment_11640" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Officer Hector Marquez shot and killed 37-year-old Andy Snider, who was armed with a hammer, after officers responded to an assault call at the 7-Eleven on University and Central, according to police. Police officers chased Snider into an alley before he confronted them with the…
Thanks to the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Hawaii is now shall-issue. The Ninth Circuit has ruled: In light of our holding in Peruta, the district court made an error of law when it concluded that the Hawaii statues did not implicate protected Second Amendment activity. Accordingly, we…
By The Times editorial board March 16, 2014 Californians may be inured to rolling blackouts that cut off their power for hours at a time, but imagine an outage that darkens the entire country — for more than a year. That nightmare scenario could happen if just a handful…
Chicago (Tribune) - Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Wednesday said the number of shootings, particularly gang-related ones, has dropped sharply in the first 2 ½ months of 2014. At a news conference at a police station in the Englewood neighborhood, one of the city’s most violent over the…