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...And the hits just keep on a coming.... isn't it 2024 yet? Today, January 13, 2023, right on schedule, three days away from the SHOT Show in Vegas, and in line with all of the other anti-gun measures currently underway in the White House, the Justice Department along with BATF…
Poor Governor J.B. Pritzker. He thought he was going to look like presidential material signing HB-5471, the gun control bill that bans America's hottest-selling self-defense firearms and imposes gun registration upon Illinois residents. He even signed it behind a podium that looks like the presidential podium. Within a few hours,…
As an firearms and personal defense instructor for just shy of 25 years, I’ve had countless people ask me what’s the best gun for home defense over the years. If it were only so simple. It’s analogous to “which car should I buy?” The answer? “It depends...” For those wanting…
The big guy - J.B. Pritzker - is not happy with 33 Illinois sheriffs (and counting) who have released statements in opposition to HB5471 that Pritzker signed into law Tuesday evening. The sheriffs, apparently working off a template furnished by the Illinois Sheriff's Association, have said they aren't going to…
On your way home, you stopped at Walmart. As you walk out carrying your bags, a shady character walks up and pulls out a small Buck knife. Somehow, you manage to fend off his attack attempt to perform thoracic surgery on you as you draw your gun. Because you haven’t…
By Mike Keleher OK, OK, the feel-good liberals and Governor of Illinois rammed through and signed their mangled “gun safety act” yesterday after running it through the political meat grinder all weekend. 2.5 million law abiding gun owners did not want it to go through but had no way to…
This evening, Governor Pritzker signed HB-5471 into law. With an immediate effective date, it impacts gun stores and gun owners alike rather dramatically. Here's the quick and dirty rundown. Bans America's favorite rifle, the AR-15 and millions more like it - pretty much all semi-auto centerfire rifles. Class 3…
Yeah, he's such an angel. He loves going to church on Sundays with his grandma. Jaylin Williams, 19, was a first-time gun offender probation when he hopped into a car and drove off while the owner unloaded it in the nice part of Chicago. As if there's a "nice" part…
Bump stocks were first invented in the early 2000s. Soon after, the ATF concluded that mechanical bump stocks qualify as machine guns under the National Firearms Act and Gun Control Act, but that non-mechanical bump stocks, which required the shooter to “apply constant forward pressure with the non-shooting hand and…
With a cocksure "We will see you in court," Illinois Senate President Don Harmon hammered the gavel down officially marking the passage of the latest gun ban bill in the Senate. This one, Senate Amendments 3, 4, and 5 of House Bill 5471, includes sweeping bans of popular rifles, shotguns…
