SELF-DEFENSE IS A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT
The rally that celebrates the right to keep and bear arms returns to Chicago! Join the grassroots movement that is sweeping the state of Illinois. Don’t miss this event next Saturday, June 26, at the Thompson Center on the 1st anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in DC v Heller!
from the Illinois State Rifle Association
In a strong show of bipartisan support earlier this spring, the Illinois General Assembly overwhelmingly passed HB182. This important piece of legislation clarified ambiguities in the unlawful weapons use statutes. These clarifications ensured that law-abiding citizens would not accidentally violate the law while preserving the justice system's ability to arrest and try violent criminals.
As you might expect, the gun-control extremists are blasting the General Assembly for making these reforms. The gun grabbers are mounting a campaign to have Governor Quinn veto HB182.
WHAT IT WOULD MEAN TO YOU IF GOVERNOR QUINN VETOES HB182
1. You would not be able to handle a firearm in any manner outside your own home, a gun shop, or gun range.
2. Let's say you were invited to a birthday party for your friend Hank. Let's say that one of Hank's gifts was a new shotgun. Hank notices you admiring the shotgun and hands it to you so that you could examine it. If Gov. Quinn vetoes HB182, then you could be subject to arrest and felony prosecution for handling Hank's new shotgun – even if you possess a valid FOID.
And there's more ...
Continue reading "Gun control groups push for gun touching to be illegal" »
by Teri O'Brien
By now, you’ve no doubt learned the following fun facts about the Dear Reader’s choice to replace David “Norman Bates Jr.” Souter on the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor:
From DiscoverTheNetworks:
During her years at Princeton, she joined two campus organizations whose efforts were devoted chiefly to the celebration of nonwhite ethnic identities. She reminisces: “The Puerto Rican group on campus, Acción Puertorriqueña, and the Third World Center provided me with an anchor I needed to ground myself in that new and different world.”
Acción Puertorriqueña, which remains active to this day, lobbied against Proposition 187, the 1994 ballot initiative designed to deny social-welfare benefits to illegal aliens in California; sponsored a 2003 event focusing on the alleged “inequality” that suppressed Latinos’ “access to higher education … throughout our nation”; and currently supports increased rights and privileges for illegal immigrants.The other group to which Sotomayor belonged, Princeton’s Third World Center, was established in 1971 to provide "a social, cultural and political environment that reflects the needs and concerns of students of color at the University”; to remedy the fact that “the University’s cultural and social organizations have largely been shaped by students from families nurtured in the Anglo-American and European traditions”; and to acknowledge that “it has not always been easy for students from different backgrounds to enter the mainstream of campus life.”
Like Michelle Obama, brainwashed at Princeton to hate Whitey, who shares Michelle's sense of entitlement and victimhood.
Continue reading "Sotomayor's America: Empathy for Fish and Felons" »
by Jim Kouri
During his first visit to Mexico,President Barack Obama is not expected to address the burning issue of illegal aliens and immigration, but he will push the US Senate to ratify a Latin American arms trafficking treaty.
The controversial treaty was originally signed by then-President Bill Clinton in 1997 but was not ratified by the Republican-led Senate.
According to White House officials, the arms trafficking treaty would help to curtail guns and ammo trafficking that allegedly threatens regional security.
From Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms:
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama deliberately and repeatedly lied to America's 90 million gun owners across the country when he insisted that he would not try to take away anyone's firearms, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, reacting to yesterday's remarks by Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder that the president will seek to reinstate the ban on semi-automatic firearms, said Obama "knew he was lying to the nation because his own website touted his plan to revive the gun ban and make it permanent."
Continue reading "Obama Lies To Gun Owners As Holder Reveals Gun Attack Plan " »
by Sam Pierce
The Illinois General Assembly unfortunately includes representatives from Cook County (Chicago Politics anyone?) and this unfortunate fact once again presents a dangerous threat to the law-abiding citizens of Illinois. If only there were a North Illinois and a South Illinois, sigh. A frequent reader of this site has alerted me to this particular, yet not all that surprising threat.
Continue reading "IL State Rep Dunkin Is a Doughnut's Gun Grab Act of 2009" »
Two bills that would allow authorized persons to protect themselves and their families with firearms passed the Illinois House Agriculture and Conservation Committee Wednesday: HB 245 and HB 462. HB 245, sponsored by downstate Democratic State Rep. John Bradley, would give the authorization rights to the State Police and HB 462, sponsored by downstate Democrat Brandon Phelps, would give the rights to sheriffs. The next step is a House floor vote, where the bills will meet a stiffer challenge.
The Illinois State Rifle Association is opposing 11 and supporting 15 bills proposed thus far in the 96th General Assembly.
One of the most controversial proposals is State Rep. Kenneth Dunkin's HB 687, which would require anyone with a FOID card to obtain a $1,000,000 insurance policy against physical harm resulting from any FOID card holders' firearms. Dunkin's bill remains in the House Rules Committee, and must pass House Committee this week in order to remain active this session.
A bi-partisan effort to make Illinois the 49th state to allow trained citizens to protect themselves with a concealed weapon is scheduled to be heard next Thursday in the House Agriculture and Conservation Committee.
HB 462, sponsored by Downstate House Democrats Brandon Phelps and Patrick Verschoore, along with House Republicans David Reis and Shane Cultra, actually does have a good chance of making it through committee. Phelps himself chairs the committee.
Of the committee's 13 members, eleven votes could come from Second Amendment supporters Phelps, Verschoore, Sacia, Cavaletto, Cultra, Dugan, Flider, Moffitt, Myers, Reis and Reitz.
Constitution supporters should contact committee members this week and tell them to support HB 462. That's the first obstacle of many more to come. Currently, only Illinois, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia do not have any form of concealed-carry licensing.
H/T Dan Proft
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