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Optics Planet, the Northbrook, IL company that employs 1600+ with sales of over $261M just shot themselves in the foot. With an email, they've cancelled orders for full capacity magazines to civilians otherwise legal to purchase them. In the email, they cite a recent policy change, saying they no longer…
Some folks get a vastly over-inflated sense of importance in the world over time. Take Al Hoffman, Jr. who made a career in real estate development in Florida. The mainstream media - specifically the New York Times - has worked themselves into an excited frenzy over this nobody. Why? Because…
The Answer “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion.” – Dale Carnegie by Frank Sharpe Fortress Defense Consultants On Monday, parents across the nation will once again send their children into the care of others, all the while suppressing…
Photo Credit: CNN.com By Mike Keleher On Valentine’s Day 2018, we all watched in horror as the media reports started rolling in about an awful school shooting in Parkland FL at a large high school. Seventeen dead and at least 14 injured in another spree conducted in a gun free…
Welcome to the modern age of civility from the left. A far-left Facebook page, Milkshakes Against the Republican Party posted an encouragement for their fellow lunatic leftists to commit mass assassinations of Republicans. And they wonder why we cling to our guns? And that was not just a one-off. Yeah, they…
Sadly, Chicago’s soft-on-crime policies led to the death of Police District Commander Paul Bauer (pictured above) in downtown Chicago Tuesday afternoon. A career bad guy, wearing body armor and carrying an illegal gun in the heart of Rahm's paradise, ran from police. Minutes later, Commander Bauer saw the suspect. Even…
By Mike Keleher Chicago Police Commander Paul Bauer was gunned down Tuesday, February 13, 2018 in the middle of the day, outside the Illinois Thompson Center by a four-time convicted felon who was purportedly wearing body armor. Chicago Police tried to speak to the suspect on the street, but he…
Stop the presses. Hell has frozen over! Well, maybe not frozen over, but a cold front certainly moved through. The New York Times published an op-ed by John Lott critical of the government's background check system for firearm purchases. Lott notes the incredibly high numbers of false positives that hamstring…
Staff at the McDonalds store on North Main Street in Normal, IL have a message for police officers. It's not polite or family friendly, but it certainly has a lot of folks in Central Illinois ticked off. After ordering her lunch in the drive through, a female Illinois State Trooper paid for her…
JB Pritzker, the billionaire Democrat who wants to add ‘Illinois Governor’ to his resume, apologized for his “racially insensitive” remarks about African-American politicians in 2008. In short, Prizker termed Illinois’ Secretary of State the “least offensive” African-American to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Barack Hussein Obama. As though African-Americans…