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Here's a helpful hint for those who still think the police will be there to protect you...  they may not be.  Outside of highly populated locations, police protection is paper thin at the best of times.  Other times, like late at night, there may be nothing.  Response times may be…

To recap for the "too long; didn't read" crowd...  What do you do about gun registration?  First off, don't seek the sound-bite answer.  Secondly, you should be reading the GSL website more regularly.  Lastly, what to do is a personal decision. Instead of reflexively calling or emailing me, you can…

Fair disclosure:  I'm envious of Richard Pearson's weekly email to members.  His Executive Director's Updates are usually well done.  We could probably do something like that here if we had someone who could administer such a broad, email communication routine to members. Yes, Rich Pearson and I share differences in…

The Illinois State Police have announced that they will leave the gun registration portal open after the end of this year.  How nice of them, right? They're doing so primarily for folks who move into the state to register their self-defense firearms.  They also hinted that they will continue to…

Guns Save Life's Executive Director John Boch joined Greg Bishop on the Bishop On Air show Thursday morning to talk about the 99.4% non-compliance numbers, options for naughty gun owners in light of the upcoming closure of the gun registration window and a look into the future on several fronts.…

While about 15,000 Illinois gun owners have registered, 2.4 million of us have not.  Instead, we have arrived at the point in the gun registration window that we have to make a final decision:  Do we comply with Pritzker's new gun and magazine ban's registration requirement in one way or…

Governor Pritzker’s so-called Protect Illinois Communities Act requires existing owners register their defensive semi-auto, magazine-fed rifles and other defensive firearms by December 31st. Given the current non-compliance rate of 99.7%, clearly there are potentially millions of banned guns out there still unregistered. Will police knock on your door? That’s very…

In regione caecorum rex est luscus In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King by Desiderius Erasmus, a GSL member I really hope this doesn’t happen and were I an advisor to the Governor I would tell him so, but I’m not, so here it is. Sometime…

(GSL) - As of this writing, 99.7% of gun owners in Illinois have elected not to comply with the new PICA gun and magazine ban’s gun registration requirement. That is effectively everyone. We’ve repeatedly covered multiple reasons for not registering. These include the governor’s plans to “close the existing owner…

Will the State of Illinois reach a 1% compliance rate with their beleaguered gun registration scheme?  The Magic 8 Ball says it's pretty much a sure bet at this point as ISP dropped their Week 11 numbers at noon today. A grand total of 15,164 FOID holders have now registered…