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Law enforcement agencies may object to individual applicants who they believe are a danger to themselves or others in the community. Applicants have all passed the background check for a FOID card. You can check and see where your county/city is at on this map from the Chicago Sun-Times. From…

  A great story of what happens at TSA at O'Hare. My pained relationship with government security had started three years earlier. I had just returned to Chicago to finish my bachelor’s degree after a two-year stint in Florida. I needed a job to help pay my way through school,…

By Prof. Nicholas Johnson, guest-blogging at the Volokh Conspiracy now at the Washington Post Surveying the landscape in the summer of 1892, Ida B. Wells advised, that “the Winchester rifle deserved a place of honor in every Black home.” This was no empty rhetorical jab. She was advancing a considered…

Sounds like Monique is under-promising hoping to over-deliver. We've heard nothing directly contradictory to this from anyone we trust, but it seemed as though ISP would begin mailing permits out in the next two- to three-weeks at most, not mid-March as Monique Bond was quoted as saying in this story.…

Illinois' new concealed carry law was approved last summer. Since then, the Illinois State Police have been making all sorts of regulatory decisions and rule-making. You almost need a program to keep track of the changes, and they carry the force of law, so it's important to understand them. CCW…

How embarrassing.  A Massachusetts low-information legislator is now appearing at the Bay State's capitol building in handcuffs to testify at hearings. Who is this Democrat state representative and why is he in cuffs? His name is Carlos Henriquez. He's in cuffs following his conviction for beating the snot out of…

(Language alert in some of the cited works) Mark Wahlberg, star of the current hit movie Lone Survivor, has a checkered past. In fact, as a 16-year-old, Walberg pled guilty in 1988 to two counts of criminal contempt after beating a Vietnamese man badly enough that the victim of the…

by John Boch House Representative Ed Sullivan, Jr. (R) called me in recent days and explained his new House Bill 4290. In a nutshell, it's more or less a single-paragraph in length (why couldn't more bills be like this one?) and says if you fraudulently certify someone has completed firearms…

          Oh yeah, and while we're embedding videos, check this one out. Argue with a judge, spend time in jail. Tell a judge "F-you", spend a lot of time in jail. Here's a priceless three minute video for you. It's a little humorous watching a disrespectful,…

  The gun-hating mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan - a colossal jewel of brilliance - released an official statement to his city council in reaction to a peaceable citizen open carrying at a local government meeting in recent days. Fair disclosure and warning:  take a blood pressure pill before reading.…