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Firearms Training In Chicago Believe It Or Not
By Executive Director Shaun Kranish

ICarry.org

Illinois --(Ammoland.com)- We’ve come across a real bulldog in the City of Chicago – a state licensed firearms instructor.

Chicagoland Detective Services/Firearm Training on Milwaukee Avenue!!!

As a state-licensed firearms training firm, they are exempt from Chicago’s gun ordinances. Chicago tried to shut them down long ago, but they prevailed in court and have been operating ever since.

They are offering NRA Basic and First Steps training so Chicago residents can get their Chicago permits. They offer Utah CCW permit classes and processing, armed and unarmed state security training, and much more.

Because Chicagoland Detective Services/Firearm Training has stood up against the city, refusing to fold to pressure to shut down, and continues to train thousands of Chicago-area residents in firearm proficiency, ICarry.org has partnered with them to provide more training to more people with convenient online sign-up!!

Get fantastic training and support two organizations that are fighting Chicago to defend your rights.

Click Here to see our new Training Center in the ICarry Store and see what we’re talking about. You will also notice these classes appear on our Calendar.

Chicago and the surrounding areas are the front lines in Illinois fight to restore the protection of the individual’s fundamental right to keep AND bear arms. The more training, carry permits, FOID cards, gun ranges and shops, and gun owners we can accumulate in this area, the faster things will change. It’s time for gun ownership to come out of the closet. Tell a friend you are proud to exercise the sacred right to self-defense – the right to own and carry a firearm.

Below is some interesting background info on Chicago

The eyes of the country have been on Chicago due to Mayor Daley and his political cohorts refusing to respect the individual’s fundamental right to keep and bear arms. Gun owners were forced to take Daley to court – all the way to the US Supreme Court to get him to live up to his oath to UPHOLD and DEFEND the Constitution.

The Supreme Court declared the individual right to keep and bear arms to be a fundamental right, pre-existing to the Constitution itself, and enshrined in the Constitution to protect the individual from the federal government, state governments, and local governments. How did Daley respond?

He said you can now own a pistol, but you can only have 1 usable gun in your home. Your garage, porch, and yard aren’t considered part of your home. You can own a pistol, but you can’t buy one in the city because gun stores are banned. You MUST get training, and that training MUST include live fire. Firing ranges are also banned, so you will have to travel out of the city to complete your training as well.

Pay us some money - $100 or more - go through all of our paperwork and training, and you can eventually own a gun legally. Do you think that’s what the framers of our Constitutional protections had in mind when drafting the 2nd Amendment – the right that SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.

Of course not!!!

ICarry.org, its attorney Walter Maksym of Chicago, and President Joe Franzese, a federally-licensed firearms dealer, were the first to file suit against Chicago after Mayor Daley passed (unanimous vote of city council) his new ordinance.

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ICarry Takes Chicago & Gun Hating Mayor Daley Back to Court
By Executive Director Shaun Kranish

ICarry.org

Illinois --(Ammoland.com)- Although the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in McDonald that Chicago has violated an individual and fundamental right to keep and bear arms by having an outright ban on pistols (and for decades this ban did not apply to Chicago aldermen and other criminals), Daley and his cohorts have immediately responded with more outrageous restrictions.

1. Long waiting, lots of paperwork
2. Huge fees for the permits
3. No gun stores in Chicago
4. Expensive training including live fire exercise required, but no training is allowed in the city
5. Limits on number of guns
6. You can’t have a gun in all parts of your home
7. Much more…

Does it surprise law-abiding gun owners to receive this latest slap-in-the-face from King Richard? The intent of the new laws is quite clear – to make it as difficult and repressive as possible to own (keep) and carry (bear) a firearm.

Who do these new laws apply to? Well, certainly not the mayor, the aldermen, or their fleet of bodyguards (our hearts go out to the fallen policeman who was shot a week before his retirement after returning home from protecting King Richard’s house).

The laws are only written for you and I. Exactly the people who would never commit a crime. They simply don’t want us to own guns – it’s very clear with the miles of red tape, time, and expense required. Make any mistakes - or perhaps even if you do your best – the city has your name, address, and they may just come to visit you.

For this reason, ICarry.org has teamed up with nationally-known attorney Walter Maksym of Chicago to defend the Constitution and your rights. Mr. Maksym has put his extensive experience and knowledge to full use for us, and every gun owner in the country should applaud him for taking this case on. ICarry.org leaders have been vigorously working with Mr. Maksym this past month to make sure all unconstitutional aspects of the new Chicago ordinance are properly challenged.

Special thanks also goes out to ICarry.org President R. Joseph Franzese aka “Joe.” Joe is a federally=licensed firearms dealer and has be planning on opening gun shops in Chicago for some time. After the McDonald ruling, Joe was exciting to get started and filed for business licenses at multiple locations in Chicago. However, a few days later Daley announced the new ban on gun shops. We’re saying no!!

Mr. Daley:

• You can’t ban gun stores when guns are legal no more than you can ban book stores when books are legal.
• You can’t ban gun stores when guns are legal no more than you can ban churches, synagogues, and mosques when religion is a constitutionally-protected freedom.
• You can’t license, permit, and charge for the exercise of fundamental rights – especially those protected by the highest law in the land, our Constitution!

As Joe pointed out in this TV interview on Fox, Mayor Daley flunked the bar exam 4 times. That whole darn Constitution part is tough for some to understand!!!

• More TV coverage
• And newspaper
• Tribune
• Sun Times
• Tribune with picture of Joe
• Many more – Google search it

We will report the progress of the lawsuit on a continual basis, as the results will have astounding affects on the State of Illinois and perhaps even the rest of the country. It’s time for sensible gun laws – ones that target the criminal misuse of guns and not ones that regulate and punish people with haven’t threatened or harmed anyone.

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