ANALYSIS! Federal Court hearing in gun ban case today in Southern District of Illinois Federal Court
Today marked the long-awaiting oral arguments in the four big challenges to the gun and magazine ban signed into law by Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker on January 10th. A couple of big observations: First and foremost this was a huge, high-profile case and guess who was nowhere to be…
ORALS TODAY! Kwame tries desperately to resurrect ‘interest balancing’; federal court judge skeptical
Today was the date we've all been waiting for since back in late January when we filed the legal challenge to JB Pritzker's gun and magazine ban. The hearing was initially planned to last about two hours. It ran closer to 3.5 hours and the state got an overwhelming majority…
CHICAGO MAYHEM: Democrats pick Murder City USA for 2024 Convention
Leaders of the Democratic Party have selected - drumroll please! - Chicago to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention. The event will take place August 19-22, 2024. Folks, if there's a month to stay far, far away from Murder City USA, August 2024 will be it. Yes, the DNC chose…
IT BEGINS: Interim Chicago PD Chief urges firing of officer who shot armed suspect in 2021… [VIDEO]
In March 2021, a 13-year-old young man ran from police while carrying a handgun. If you guessed that playing stupid games like running from the police at 2:38 in the morning as a 13-year-old toting a stolen handgun can lead to bad outcomes, you're a smart cookie. CPD Office Eric…
VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: Walmart closes HALF of its Chicago stores, citing losses
Today, April 11th, Walmart announced that it was folding half it its Chicago stores. No doubt Walmart execs saw the Chicago mayor's race. They have some pretty bright people at Walmart's corporate offices, but it doesn't take 20 years' experience and a MBA from Columbia Business School to know that…
ATTEND IN PERSON: GSL lawsuit hearing coming up <>
April 19th is the anniversary of the start of the American Revolutionary War. This year, it also marks the court date for what we hope will be the circuit court hearing on Guns Save Life's challenge to the FOID Act's constitutionality. Yes, while everyone has been watching the dog and…
Third of IL States Attorneys argue for Supreme Court to overturn Pritzker’s gun ban
For sharp-eyed readers of GunNews, we mentioned last month about the States Attorneys in Illinois filing an amicus brief with the Illinois Supreme Court (and potentially even in federal court as well) in support of efforts to have the law overturned. Well, 33 of them filed last week to do…
WE SURVIVED DAY ONE: Illinois Gun & Mag ban enforcement started Monday, April 10th
The enforcement phase of the new gun ban has begun. As of Monday, April 10th, it is a criminal violation to possess a "prohibited firearm" outside of your own property or on licensed gun ranges. In fact, possession of two or more of these firearms in public is a Class…
FELONY STUPID: Decatur PD pops knife-throwing fool [BODYCAM VIDEO]
Someone spent waaaay too much time watching Bruce Lee as a child (or maybe YouTube videos as an adult) in Decatur, IL. Steven Hirstein, aged old enough to know better, should have been in bed sleeping soundly at 4am on March 30th. Instead, the big idiot thought he was going…
MAN’S BEST FRIEND: Police K-9 saves his handler that had been shot three times [VIDEO]
A Florida police K-9 handler was shot three times in an ambush from a 23-year-old Florida man Zion Bostick. Moments later, Pinellas County Sheriff's Department Cpl. Aitken's dog "Taco" took a big bite out of crime and out of Bostick. What's more, Taco's sergeant then dispensed some ballistic therapy to…