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[caption id="attachment_12795" align="alignnone" width="609"] Garry McCarthy. Street-light assassin.[/caption]   Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy was crediting his policing strategies earlier this year when crime was down. Chicago (Tribune) – Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Wednesday said the number of shootings, particularly gang-related ones, has dropped sharply in the first…

Happy Independence Day. Chicago marked the occasion with celebratory fireworks, and unlike most civilized communities in America, an abundance gunfire aimed at other people. The LA Times is now reporting that 82 people were shot over the weekend and 14 killed in the senseless inner-city violence that is Chicago. We…

Thugs in Chicago: sit up and take note. More and more Chicago residents have concealed carry licenses now, and know how to use their pistols. Denzel A. Mickiel learned the hard way that good guys in Illinois sometimes carry guns - and they don't shoot sideways, over their head or…

  Michael Bloomberg likes his girls high end. He's got a stable of them working for him in one way or another. His best girl?  Is it Shannon Watts <aka Shannon Troughton, President and owner of of VoxPop Public Relations, a boutique liberal PR firm>?  Nope. [caption id="attachment_12757" align="alignright" width="300"]…

  [caption id="attachment_12775" align="alignnone" width="600"] Former Air Force reservist Michael Thomas says he doesn't know why a special review board denied his application for a concealed carry license. “I have never been arrested or convicted of any offense, either misdemeanor or felony, in the state of Illinois or any other…

Rahm Emanuel doesn't care. It's not his money. He and his merry band of gun-hating Democrat Machine politicians in Chicago keep defending the indefensible. And they keep losing and paying the legal bills for all of it. The latest bill came yesterday:  $940,000. And the same law firm is poised…

  IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the…

[caption id="attachment_12761" align="alignnone" width="634"] Say hello to Kendall Jones.[/caption]   Kendall Jones hunts in Africa, spending big dollars to hunt big game when the 19-years-old cheerleader at Texas Tech University isn't in school. Her photos, posted from her hunting trips, have gone viral in social media circles, earning her lots…

There's stupid and there's a special kind of stupid. Just this March, at Keith's Superstore, a Lumberton, Mississippi Chevron station and convenience store, a concealed carry licensee walked into the store as the attendant/manager was being repeatedly stabbed by an armed robber.  This was at 10:00 a.m. - not oh…

Are you an Illinois Concealed Carry instructor looking for some advanced continuing education? Are you an Illinois concealed carry licensee looking to build upon your existing training? Are you just a training junkie looking to refine your skills to defend your family and self from violent attack? TrainIllinois will be…