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The NRA News came out with a scathing video documenting Chicago's insane violence last week.   Now, Second City Cop reports that CBS News' 48 Hours program is filming for their own documentary on Chicago's violence, ranging from wildings on the Magnificent Mile to homicides all throughout Chicago. All bad…

  Support for gun control is plummeting from the post-Sandy Hook attack hysteria. And the inverse is also true:  A growing number of Americans are embracing guns for their families for protection as evidenced by Americans going to gun shows ("Gun Shows Across the Nation Draw Record Crowds") and stripping…

Yeah, you might think that's over the top. Mayor Bloomberg came out today saying that Americans' interpretation of the Consitution "will have to change" to give so-called "authorities" greater ability to stop future attacks. Really now? Bloomberg is a big proponent of the "living, breathing" document interpretation of the Constitution…

[caption id="attachment_7195" align="alignnone" width="600"] Here's a screen capture of the coverage of the House deliberations on HB997. Red dots are "no". Yellow are "present" (or "Obama" votes as some call them). Then there are those not voting.[/caption]   Rich Miller's column in the Sun-Times, which he reprinted at Capitol Fax,…

    As the sign says, not everyone can be an aerospace engineer when they grow up, so they join the Associated Press instead.  The reporters noted that the Boston islamic terrorists did not abide by Massachusetts' gun laws. BOSTON (AP) — As churches paused to mourn the dead and…

  A fabulous article over at Police One about a Skokie, IL police officer who engaged in a gun battle with a Gangster Disciple bank robber who was one highly motivated bad guy who took 13 hits from a .45 auto - including six fatals - before a trio of…

  Downstate Representative Jason Barickman is hosting Chicago Democrat Christian Mitchell to a couple of downstate meetings in an effort to let the Chicago representative better understand downstate issues on Monday, April 22 in Pontiac and Bloomington. Christian Mitchell voted "no" on the "Shall Issue" vote on HB-997 last Thursday.…

[caption id="attachment_7179" align="alignnone" width="594"] Alan Gura, left and Otis McDonald in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building. Otis McDonald was the plaintiff in the landmark McDonald decision which incorporated the earlier landmark Heller gun rights decision to the fifty states.[/caption]   Contact your State Senator and urge him to…

There's yet another run on ammo. It wasn't as if ammo was available before the latest jihadi attack on Boston, but if there was any ammo available, it's gone now, according to CBS Miami. POMPANO BEACH (CBS4) – Ammunition sellers and manufacturers say there’s been a run on bullets and…

Here we go again. Illinois does elect some seriously low-information legislators. Republican Tim Bivins is joining that category, along with long-time member Kwame Raoul. (AP) - A key Illinois senator says legislation allowing public gun possession will carve out an exception for Chicago. Republican Sen. Tim Bivins  says the measure…