We Defend Your Right to Defend Yourself
[caption id="attachment_9414" align="alignnone" width="500"] Rob Shewmake's Ford Raptor pickup truck.[/caption] Early Sunday, we wrote about a seven-year-old Florida company that was advertising Illinois-certified concealed carry classes on their website. For $280, they would provide the 16-hours of training Illinois requires and better yet, they were offering this training in a…
Chokepoint (Dictionary.com) - choke·point [chohk-point] noun a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck. by John Boch The Illinois State Police have done a fine job creating a chokepoint for Illinois gun owners in their handling of the mandated training requirements of the new Illinois Firearm Concealed Carry…
[caption id="attachment_9377" align="alignnone" width="674"] The latest American history textbook to "rewrite" the Second Amendment. And educators wonder why Americans look with suspicion upon the educational community. Photo courtesy TTAG.[/caption] First there was a revisionist, downright false description of the 2nd Amendment in United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement…
[caption id="attachment_9368" align="alignnone" width="320"] David Guth. Professor "blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters."[/caption] by Brent Harney How far will far-left gun haters go with the antipathy and derision they have for gun owners? Apparently very far, even to the…
Please, if you consider yourself a gun rights activist, this is must-reading. Read the whole thing and digest it. It's very well written and thought out. My hat's off to Sebastian for this. Nice work squared! John What can Starbucks teach us as a community? by Sebastian When…
Poor Garry McCarthy. He's nicknamed "Streetlight Assassin" by some of us for his inglorious reputation as the guy who shot out street lights in Jersey outside a neighborhood bar with his State Cop brother while drunk one evening many years ago (while shouting racial epithets at nearby neighbors coming out…
UPDATE: We certainly don't have a lot of love for flim-flam artists who would defraud Illinois gun owners, but Equip 2 Conceal assured us this morning that they are neither flim-flam artists, nor looking to defraud Illinois gun owners. Chad Ward, Vice-President of Equip 2 Conceal, was very "concerned"…
Les Baer left the Illinois side of the river and settled in Iowa about five years ago. Today, gun maker Lewis Machine and Tool announced its departure from the Prairie State, taking 170 good-paying jobs with them. In fact, the owner, Karl Lewis, said he was very eager to…
Nothing good happens late at night. Especially in the gun control "utopia" of Chicago, where guns are banned outside the four corners of your home (and effectively still banned as Illinois isn't issuing any carry licenses yet) and gun control is still very pervasive and strict. Why was a…
Yep. It's the human toll. Chicago is the nation's homicide leader for 2012 and they're doing a fine job working to retain that title for 2013. Sounds like a great place to vacation or travel on business, right? Yeah, we were just kidding about vacationing there. Unless you're looking…