This morning, the Illinois Gun Rights Alliance, a coalition of gun rights organizations, licensed gun dealers, gun clubs, and some of the best legal minds in Illinois have filed their answer to Governor JB Pritzker’s new gun and magazine bans in federal court. The coalition seeks to dismantle the onerous new Illinois law that outlaws … Read more
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul finds himself in the unpleasant position of defending the indefensible. It falls upon him to defend Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s new gun and magazine ban in the courts. At a court hearing yesterday, Raoul got off to a rocky start. Despite 450 attorneys working for him, Illinois’ top lawyer couldn’t even … Read more
Crime in Illinois could “spiral out of control” after a new law overhauling the state’s criminal justice system goes into effect in January, the mayor of a Chicago suburb said. “When I said that this is the most dangerous law I’ve ever seen, I believe that,” said Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau, who is running … Read more
Illinois remains a screwed up state, with politicians blaming law-abiding gun owners for the crimes committed almost entirely by gang members who illegally acquired their firearms. Why, the politicians even redirect attention from the gang violence on our streets by calling it “gun violence” instead. And now Governor J.B. Pritzker’s Illinois State Police, under new … Read more
Imagine the handful of incarcerated criminals who might deserve an early release. Yes, there are those who probably pose a minimal risk to others in the community. Last year, the Democrat-run Illinois legislature and governor approved a new law to allow prosecutors to petition for re-sentencing inmates deemed to deserve an early release. With the … Read more
Every time you hear a politician or a media personality mention “gun violence,” you should mentally translate that phrase to “gang violence.” Not only that, but ask yourself if that politician or media outlet has an agenda by mislabeling gang violence as something entirely different. Obviously politicians who have enabled the “criminal justice reforms” that … Read more
How bad is the crime in Chicago? Well, a couple of weeks ago, a carjacking happened right outside Governor J.B. Pritzker’s mansion in a very exclusive residential neighborhood. And news has just come to light of an attempted carjacking of a police SUV parked outside Cook County Board Chairman Toni Preckwinkle’s home (which just happens … Read more
Actions have consequences. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s (political) science-based ChiCom flu restrictions precluded the Land of Lincoln from hosting The Grand American national trap shooting championships in Sparta, Illinois. So the Amateur Trap Association, acting rationally, has moved the massive event to Missouri where that state’s residents and governor are “ecstatic” to host everyone. Built … Read more
It had to happen. One of the 4,000 Illinois prisoners released early under Gov. J.B. Pritzker got himself a gun almost immediately after his April 2 release. Then after he crashed his car on Interstate 55 just south of I-80, and used that gun to carjack another motorist to gain a new ride. Waynae Massey, … Read more
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