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Last Thursday, the Illinois State Senate passed bill SB-1657 (Gun Dealer Licensing) by a one-vote margin. While its prospects are still unsure in the House, if signed by Governor Bruce Rauner, the new law will mandate state licensing for all Illinois gun dealers. It will also restrict all others in Illinois to nine…
Illinois G.A. Back in Session. Updates in red. The Illinois General Assembly has come back into session. It looks as though, for right now, our big push should focus on stopping the Gun Dealer Licensing scheme in the Senate (SB-1657). If we kill it in the Senate, it's dead in…
In January 2015, just in time for that year's SHOT Show, the BATF issued an open letter from the acting director of BATF that prohibited shouldering of pistols with "support braces" affixed. The letter put the kabosh on a very rapidly and increasingly popular type of firearms - pistols with…
Holy Toledo, Batman! Rahm Emanuel’s gun control paradise gets the blame for almost half of America’s increase in urban murders. The Huffington Post, hardly a bastion of conservatism or law-and-order advocacy, dropped that news nugget in their story “The Murder Rate Jumped Again In 2016. A Handful Of Cities Are Largely Responsible.“ WASHINGTON…
Yahoo News teased a favorable article on national concealed carry reciprocity that ran at Al-Jazeera US. Gun rights activists have sought national reciprocity for some years now. Under President Obama, a sure veto precluded serious consideration. However, under President Donald J. Trump, the concept has gained a good deal of…
Illinois Democrat Senator Don Harmon. Contact your State Senator and tell them to vote NO on SB1657. The Illinois Senate will vote this next week on SB1657, a bill that would license gun dealers in Illinois and ration gun owners to nine firearm transfers per year. Yes, the feds already…
[caption id="attachment_23783" align="aligncenter" width="600"]Two former and equally disgraced governors of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, left and George Ryan, right, test-firing a pistol. Neither man may legally touch a firearm today. [/caption] Poor Rod Blagojevich. The poor, Democratic Governor of Illinois, impeached by his own party, currently rots away in federal prison. …
Join us this Sunday for the monthly Chicagoland Guns Save Life meeting. The meeting is usually on the last Sunday of the month, but we've moved it forward a week to accommodate our hosts. One of our members, who shall remain anonymous, may bring out an exciting tech time: the…
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Moscow last week on Air Force Three. Russia Today showed a live shot of the arrival. Interestingly, we got a rare peek at the SecState’s security detail. Members of the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service provide security for our nation’s primary diplomat. Do…
Mainstream media journalism continues its decline. Just yesterday, a journalism prof at Missouri actually signed his name to a clinically insane opinion piece that proclaimed that the National Rifle Association poses a bigger threat to Americans than ISIS. Incredibly, he lays blame for the Orlando Muslim terror attack and others…