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Illinois is hardly a gun-friendly state.  Yes, it's not Massachusetts, New Jersey, California or MARYLAND, but it's not gun friendly. Because gun ownership is so (relatively) scarce in Illinois, Prairie State residents get to enjoy (much) higher crime rates (4.15/100,000 violent crime rate)  than gun-friendly states like Indiana (3.46/100k violent…

Personal Defense World has an excellent post written by Massad Ayoob in recent days that's a good read for the legal nuances in the Castle Doctrine. Illinois does not have the full Castle Doctrine.  Land of Lincoln residents have what our attorneys refer to as "Castle Lite".  Almost as filling…

[caption id="attachment_15153" align="alignnone" width="720"] New recruits attend their New York Police Academy graduation ceremony, Monday Dec. 29, 2014, at Madison Square Garden in New York. Nearly 1000 officers were sworn in as tensions between city hall and the NYPD continued following the Dec. 20 shooting deaths of officers Rafael Ramos…

Good guys with guns are the only thing that stops bad people with evil in their hearts from destroying innocent lives. Yes, Virginia, the most effective thing that stops a bad guy with a weapon of some sort and evil in his or her heart is a good guy with…

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You think you'll be safe in Chicago if you just hang out in the touristy, supposedly "safe", areas of the city? Think again, Buttercup. The random violence and criminal activity infects every nook and cranny in Chicago, but especially areas like the "NO GUNS" allowed Navy Pier, where gaggles of…

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives and really big fires can't seem to get it's brace screwed on straight. Earlier in 2014, it issued at least two compliance letters (903050, 99146) indicating that use of the Sig Support Brace in any configuration is completely and perfectly legal because "using…

  On Christmas Eve eve, 14-year-old Keontre Reese decided to go do some Christmas shopping in a residential neighborhood in Oklahoma City. Young Keontre wasn't taking a break from his entrance exam to Harvard, nor was he retrieving some medicine from the store for his sick mother. No, he was…

  [caption id="attachment_15118" align="alignnone" width="550"] Note the "NO GUNS" signage on the left column.[/caption]   Once again, criminals ignore "NO GUNS" signs that leave the law-abiding defenseless. But to anti-gun Democrats, we couldn't function as a society without all of those prohibited locations. (CBS) – A shooting at a CTA…

For the second night in a row, "Black Lives Matter" protesters created disturbances and trouble in and near Berkeley, Missouri after an 18-year-old black thug who drew a gun on a white cop was shot dead. It doesn't matter what color your skin is, if you unlawfully pull a gun…