Kathleen Willis: “We worked very hard together with gun advocates” in SB1966 HA1… her racist $150 FOID card bill
So Kathleen Willis was interviewed by The Center Square about her racist gun control bill to price gun ownership out of the reach of inner-city people of color. Just like the racists a hundred years ago did with Black Codes and Jim Crow gun control bills of that era. She…
KATHLEEN WILLIS’ RACIST GUN CONTROL: SB 1966 House Amendment 1 – Makes Gun Ownership Onerous and Expensive
Kathleen Willis hates black people. And poor people. Her latest gun control proposal, Senate Bill 1966 (House Amendment One), effectively prices gun ownership right out of the reach of poor residents of Illinois. It would require spending upwards of $150 or more just to receive a FOID card. Once again,…
Guns Save Life Challenges Illinois’ FOID Act with NRA Support
With the support of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, Guns Save Life filed a lawsuit today in Illinois state court challenging the state’s Firearm Owner’s Identification Card (FOID) Act. The FOID Act requires individuals to pass an extended background check, provide a photo, and pay a fee…
The Critical Importance of Teaching Gun Safety to Your Kids
[Josh Montgomery approached GSL about publishing some of his work a few weeks ago. He delivered this to me today. I told him he did well. Hopefully he'll send more...] [caption id="attachment_27388" align="aligncenter" width="770"] Store your guns so they are inaccessible to unauthorized persons...[/caption] by Josh Montgomery Earlier this year,…
Chuck Norris & Other Sights at NRA Indy 2019
Like the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot, the NRA's Annual Meetings stand as a pilgrimage every gun owner should make at least once in their lives. Think of it as a SHOT Show of sorts for every man (and woman). It's big. It's fun. You meet all sorts of people…
Kathleen Willis’ “Gun Control Working Group” Meets Again… More legislation coming
So, Kathleen Willis, the former librarian turned gun control crusader in the Illinois House of Representatives is at it again. She brought her little gun control working group together. She's tweaked her House Bill 96 "Amendment #1" and has a new bill set to drop Wednesday or Thursday this week. …
11 Tips For Journalists Who Want To Cover Guns Like Old School Objective Reporters
Just in time for the NRA convention -- or frankly any time of the year -- a Guns Save Life member submitted this list of suggestions to me for reporters who want to be real reporters. As opposed to shills who simply regurgitate the talking points from a press release…
In Praise of the Absence of a Manual Safety
[caption id="attachment_27354" align="aligncenter" width="770"] Chris Heuss for TTAG[/caption] The Truth About Guns contributor John Sprague gave us his take on the manual safety in the piece entitled, In Praise of the Manual Safety. In it, Mr. Sprague says that a manual safety strikes the perfect balance for him in terms of…
“Affordable Bail” puts us ALL in Danger
[caption id="attachment_27331" align="aligncenter" width="770"] Base photo via CWBChicago.com[/caption] In 2017, Illinois Democrats introduced a bail reform bill that passed into law. The new law mandates that courts impose the least restrictive conditions possible for criminal case defendants. The law has made the Land of Lincoln’s “Catch and Release” criminal justice…
Read the Illinois Attorney General’s Brief in the Brown FOID Case
[Note: An earlier version of this had it as the "White" case, when it was Vivian Brown. We regret our color dyslexia.] A judge in Illinois' Second Circuit found the Illinois FOID Act unconstitutional in a case against Vivian Brown last year. We wrote about it back in March. The…