The last of the shooting fatalities was 16-year-old Nathan Hicks, who was found in the street Sunday afternoon about 3:20 p.m. in West Arthington with multiple gunshot wounds..
8 Killed, At Least 39 Wounded In Chicago Over Mother’s Day Weekend
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International Chief’s Convention – A Gun-Control Circus
With the bloodstained streets of the South Side as a backdrop, the Chiefs attacked lawful gun owners, vilified the NRA, & called for the end of firearm….
Chicago Politicians Again Forced Taxpayers to Reimburse NRA for Legal Fees
In early July, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ordered Chicago to pay $940,000 to the NRA…
Court Sides With SAF On Key Points In Challenge of Chicago Gun Range Law
The case, Ezell v. City of Chicago, challenged the city’s code by asserting that the regulations involving installation and operation of gun ranges inside city limits are burdensome…
Attorney General Holder Announces Plans to Send 7 Additional ATF Agents to Chicago
Following his recent visit to Chicago with Mayor Emanuel, Attorney General Eric Holder announced plans to send seven additional Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, agents to Chicago…
Chicago Politicians Have Taxpayers Pay an Expensive Lesson Regarding Second Amendment
Chicago has once again been court ordered to pay NRA’s legal fees, this time $940,000 for work on Illinois Association of Firearm Retailers v. City of Chicago case & we are laughing all the way to the bank…
Chicago’s Mayor Emmanuel Continues To Play Dirty Hard Ball with Your Rights
Court order or not, Rahm Emmanuel and the Chicago City Council under his control are still working to curtail the lawful commerce in firearms & citizens rights…
Jim Crow, Apartheid Based Illinois Gun Laws
Chicago, through the State of Illinois, has managed to insert a Jim Crow, Apartheid-based firearm restriction into the new conceal carry law…
Spring is Here in Chicago – Dam Those Lawful Gun Owners
The chief laid the entire blame for all this mayhem squarely on the shoulders of all of Chicago’s & Illinois’ honest gun owners, who don’t commit crimes, but who also don’t vote for liberal Democrats…
Chicago’s Firearm Transfer Ban Falls to Second Amendment Ruling
Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Edmond E. Chang of the Northern District of Illinois issued a significant opinion that invalidated Chicago’s ban on firearm sales and transfers within the city…
IL:Federal Court Strikes Down Ban on Chicago Gun Stores as Unconstitutional
The finding by the court in summary judgment for the plaintiff is in stark contrast to the short shrift that the second amendment received in the recent decision on the “Safe Act” in New York…
Second Amendment Foundation ‘Delighted’ That Its Court Wins Paved Way For New Chicago Ruling
Monday’s federal court ruling that a ban on gun sales in Chicago is unconstitutional cited three significant Second Amendment Foundation court victories…
Orwellian Gun Quote of the Day: Chicago Police Chief McCarthy ~ ‘Recover Guns’
Recovered implies that they were returned to their rightful owners. However, very few of the 6,500 guns were returned to their rightful owners…
Illinois: Proposed New Changes to Mandatory Minimum Bill
This policy change continues to create a scenario in which an unsuspecting citizen who has chosen to carry a firearm for self-defense, could serve significant jail time for a regulatory infraction…
Federal Judges Can’t Touch the Chicago Political Machine
Judge Posner. You thought you were being moderate in your legal decision by allowing the state to have some latitude. Then the Chicago Machine regulated the human right of self-defense until it all but disappeared…
Chicago Anti-Gun Laws to be Overhauled In Face of State Concealed Carry Law
The City of Chicago must update provisions of the Municipal Code regarding firearms in order to comply with the preemption clauses in recently passed concealed carry legislation…
Cook County & Chicago IL Deal Serious Blows to Gun Rights, Responding to Concealed Carry Legislation
During the Chicago City Council meeting, council members took the opportunity to demean gun owners and the NRA, even suggesting residents who oppose the new gun regulations just leave the city…
Hall v. Chicago Right-to-Carry Case Moves Forward
In the Hall v. Chicago complaint, the lawyers for plaintiffs Michael Hall and Kathryn Tyler make clear that Chicago’s carry ban should be voided as it is even more restrictive than the state ban struck by the Seventh Circuit…
19 Days to Deadline, Good Carry Bill In the IL House VS. Bad Carry Bill, Senate
Chicago continues to thumb their nose at the court, circumventing the Constitution, violateing the rights of law-abiding citizens, & stopping citizens of Illinois from protecting themselves..
Chicago Machine Misrepresents Illinois State Rifle Association Position On Gun Control
Anti-gun crackpot Rep. Michael Zalewski recently introduced HB 2265. This gun control bill would set mandatory 3-year jail terms for violating any gun control law…
Chicago Police Setting Up Concealed Carry Permit Holders for Murder? – Internet Rumors
Don’t spread unfounded rumors, and don’t make up any rumors of your own. Avoid debates that cannot be held in a civil manner. Instead, concentrate your energies on working to preserve and protect your gun rights through the legislative and legal processes. Believe it or not, the system still works….
Second Amendment Foundation Wins Huge Victory For Gun Carry In Illinois
To confine the right to be armed to the home is to divorce the Second Amendment from the right of self-defense described in Heller and McDonald…
Illinois Federal Court Upholds RKBA & Awards the NRA $125,000
On September 26, 2012 the United States District Court in the Northern District of Illinois awarded the National Rifle Association (NRA) $125,000 to reimburse it for attorney’s fees spent winning a lawsuit against the City of Chicago…
$25-A-Gun Sales Tax Approved In Chicago Area
We at JPFO have a novel counter-proposal. Rather than taxing the law-abiding citizens of Chicago who purchase their firearms legally…
Bullet Tax Proposal Robs Chicago Sportsmen
Cook County, Illinois Board of Commissioners President Toni Preckwinkle is proposing a so-called “violence tax” in her budget plan for the County…
Help Your Industry Stand Up Against Those Who Ignore The Law & Push Their Own Agenda
Anti-gun, anti-industry politicians and bureaucrats will do anything to put honest, hardworking and law-abiding firearms retailers out of business and destroy America’s firearms industry and our firearms freedoms…
More of the Same as Anti-Gun Chicago Potentially Breaks Federal Law
Chicago PD gave firearm trace information to the University of Chicago Crime Lab to “analyze,” release of this data for anything other than a bona fide criminal investigation is prohibited by Fed law.
Obama’s DOJ Puts Chicago Anti-Gun Agenda Above IL Resident’s Constitutional Rights
The Illinois State Police are pushing legislation that could have a severe, negative impact on gun rights in Illinois.
Emanuel/Obama Machine Continues Attacking Illinois Gun Owners
The Chicago Mayor’s efforts to punish Illinois gun owners for Chicago’s out-of-control crime problem continue in the Illinois Senate.
Chicago Mayor and Anti-Gun Legislators Push Extreme Bills
Two pieces of anti-gun legislation: House Bill 5167, which would impose a 2 percent sales tax on ammunition, and House Bill 5831, which would impose handgun registration throughout the state.