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Class 2 felonies in Illinois are serious business, with 3-7 years in prison plus big fines. Some examples of Class 2 felonies including kiddie pron, aggravated domestic battery and aggravated criminal sexual abuse (otherwise known as sex with a minor over age 13 when the perp is more than five…
We don't know how this one made it past us this past summer. But we're correcting this overlooked tidbit. 5.8%. Thanks to the no-snitch culture, and a shortage of police officers, Chicago residents see arrests made in crimes against them just 5.8% of the time for the worst offenses. That number…
Got night sights? You should. You need them. At our recent GSL Defense Training Intermediate Personal Protection class, we took 14 shooters onto the range in low-light and very low-light conditions. Just as we’ve seen time and time again in the past, the difference in hits on target between those…
This story from the American Thinker offers in interesting supposition on how bad actors have corrupted our elections in some jurisdictions... It's well worth the read. It explains how you get ballot counting numbers that look like this graphed out. Here's a teaser... From the American Thinker. By Jay Valentine…
Low-information voters often elect low-information legislators. And in other regions of Illinois, we're blessed with some extra "special" legislators. Like Rep. Bob Morgan, a slick-talking radical Democrat from Deerfield. On Thursday, he introduced HB-5855 that would ban almost anyone under 21 from owning a gun. It would also ban America's…
[caption id="attachment_32803" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Image via Illinois Policy Institute[/caption] Yes, the Illinois General Assembly leadership see the election returns as some sort of a mandate to continue governing from the hard left. In fact, given the political persuasion of some of the new Illinois House members, the hard left might…
The New York Times would never fabricate stories or perpetuate a false narrative. Never. Except for when they do like in "At Protests, Guns Are Doing the Talking." Their Democrat operative with a byline "reporter" Mike McIntire claims that pro-gun protesters are using open carry to intimidate others into not…
From my Executive Director's Notes that I'll deliver tonight at the Peoria GSL meeting... No Cash Bail UPDATE: Today was the final day of fall veto session. Under extraordinary pressure, Democrats today [will likely vote] on a trailer bill to put a band-aid over the No Cash Bail Act. …
Well, that didn't take long. Oregon's "Ballot Measure 114" enacting all manner of gun control narrowly passed in November. Now, days before it's effective date, the Second Amendment Foundation has filed suit to block its implementation. Measure 114 institutes a permitting process issued by local police to purchase a firearm. …
Most families already feel the pinch of high gas prices. But now, with the weather turning colder, we’ll feel even more pain heating our homes. Thankfully unlike Europe and many other nations, outside of storms or disasters, we remain unlikely to have lengthy utility outages this winter in Illinois. At…
