300K people left Illinois last year: These were their top destinations [More]
How do they vote?
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Tag: Illinois
Illinois Semiauto Ban Challenge
PLAINTIFFS’ PROPOSED FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW [More]
Mark W. Smith says they’re “GREAT 2A ARGUMENTS.”
I’d feel better if they cited the word “militia” more than once, and that just to quote the amendment.
[Via Jess]
Better Safe Than Sorry
The Illinois Attorney General’s office has apologized to a federal judge demanding answers after implying his ruling against the state’s mass transit concealed carry ban has “safety implications.” [More]
And that is the difference between a Trump-appointed judge and what Kamala will put on the bench.
True, his won’t all be perfectly consistent. But you can bet hers will be.
[Via Jess]
Riding in Style
IL: Federal judge rules Illinois’ concealed carry law can’t prohibit holders from having guns on public transportation [More]
So we’ll no longer need to rely on the officer Terrence Howell’s of the world to protect us…?
Not yet, naturally.
[Via Jess]
Hang On for the Ride of Your Life
Judge rules Illinois ban on concealed carry on public transit unconstitutional [More]
Not that it will affect these guys…
Expect this trip to be a long one, with plenty of attempts to derail the train and throw gun owners under the bus.
[Via Jess]
A Good First Step
Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced that Federal District Court Judge Iain D. Johnston has declared the State of Illinois’ ban on carrying firearms on public transportation and in public transportation facilities unconstitutional as applied to the named plaintiffs in the FPC-supported lawsuit Schoenthal v. Raoul. [More]
Good. But don’t overlook “The State is expected to appeal the decision.”
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We’re the Only Ones Normal Enough
Defendant Hines … did not mention that Plaintiff’s mother had initiated the encounter by calling emergency services to express concern about a trespasser… and he stated—incorrectly—that Plaintiff had been charged with aggravated assault… Finally, he wrote that Plaintiff complied with the officers’ commands and told officers he had been afraid for the safety of his grandmother (apparently an erroneous reference to Plaintiff’s mother) [More]
And a “trained professional” being sloppily incompetent and incapable of filing an accurate police report is enough to disarm a citizen…?
Normal PD, eh? Where the chief can have a gun in his carry-on with no consequences?
Four Boxes Diner breaks the case down.
[Via Jess]
The Best Defense?
In defending gun control laws in Illinois and other states, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul recognizes the challenges posed by recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent on the right to keep and bear arms. [More]
Attacking rights is now considered “defending”?
The biggest challenge is to run out the clock until SCOTUS can be repurposed.
[Via Jess]
But Burning It in Support of Hamas is OK
Wild Cards
Democrats Continue to Place Criminals Above Citizens, Exploiting That to Ban Guns
They rely on violent crime so that they have blood to dance in, to whip up mob furor among constituents ignorant and stupid enough to vote for them. [More]
Why punish their constituents when they can punish you?
Making the Grade
2nd Amendment Grades for Illinois’ 2024 Political Candidates [More]
My standard caveat is I have not personally gone through these, so use it as a starting point plus bring your own findings, knowledge, and judgment to bear.
House of Cards
The Finest Subversives Money Can Buy
Billionaire family bankrolling both anti-Israel groups and these battleground Democrats [More]
The same pigs who want your guns.
So, Pritzker’s a Putin puppet…
We’re the Only Ones Underringing Enough
Proper Use of the Term ‘Assault Weapons’
Hanley detailed Soto’s violent spree that included stabbing and running over a mail carrier with a car, breaking into multiple homes and attacking three juveniles with a bat. [More]
And it took men threatening him with guns to get him to get the lunatic to act in rational self-interest and stop? I wonder if Rockford being mostly Democrat had anything to do with those men being “Only Ones” instead of neighbors…
[Via Jess]
News in Brief
GOA Petition to SCOTUS for Writ of Certiorari Against Illinois Categorical Ban on AR-15s… Friends of The Captain’s Journal Stephen Stamboulieh and Oliver Krawczyk wrote this brief, along with Rob Olson. A better constructed and more direct and honest one you will never find. [More]
This covers some essential points that can’t be raised enough. I intend to write an article soon explaining why.
Judicial Gamesmanship
The analogy of undocumented immigrants to British loyalists is interesting. If a law-abiding, former enemy of the state could possess a firearm, an undocumented, but otherwise law-abiding, immigrant seems less extreme in comparison. [More]
He’s not “otherwise law-abiding.” He is an invader in possession during the commission of a crime.
The Obama judge is doing this on purpose to undermine Bruen.
[Via Jess]
We’re the Only Ones On Call Enough
From the state that banned such guns for you. At least now we have our answer to “If they’re ‘weapons of war,’ why do the police have them?”
To be enforcers for Democrats.
“Back the Blue,” right…?
[Via Jess]
Order in Illinois Gun/Magazine Ban Case
You can see that Stephen McGlynn is implicitly saying that he totally, totally disagrees with the ruling of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and while he’s not calling those judges morons, he’s basically saying, shall we say, they’re clearly wrong on the law. [Watch]
Nothing to stop the rest of us from calling them what they deserve…
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