First Shots to Kick Off Big City Tour
The National Shooting Sports Foundation and eight shooting facilities in greater Chicago and Madison, Wis., are sponsoring First Shots seminars Saturday, Nov. 5, to introduce residents to safe and...
View ArticleCook County Board President Wants to Tax Guns, Ammo
From the gun control capital of the heartland comes yet another attention-diverting effort intended to appear as if it would deal with the costs of Chicago’s rampant, gang-related violence while...
View ArticleAnti-Gun Illinois State Senator Gets Caught with Pistol at O’Hare
An Illinois state senator representing the south side of Chicago who recently announced he would seek the Congressional seat vacated by former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was arrested at O’Hare airport...
View ArticleRahm Emanuel Pirouettes 180 Degrees on Guns
One of the little known facts about Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is that he spent his high school years training as a ballet dancer, even receiving a scholarship offer from the Joffrey ballet. Don’t take...
View ArticleWhite House Puts Politics Over Safety
President Obama delivered his gun control stump speech in his hometown of Chicago last Friday. He did not acknowledge that he was pressing for new restrictions in the town that makes owning a gun...
View ArticleFederal Court Decision Affirms Both Citizens’ Right to Buy Firearms and...
In striking down the City of Chicago’s 2010 ordinance banning the sales of firearms within city limits, U.S. District Court Judge Edmond E. Chang in his ruling released Monday provided important...
View ArticleOf a Judge’s Ruling, Police Chief’s Words and Professor’s Research:...
In the first full week of 2014 we are seeing some very interesting developments involving the Second Amendment rights of American citizens and the firearms industry that strives to serve them. First,...
View ArticleChicago, Detroit and Flint Campaign Targets Illegal Gun Purchases
As part of its multi-year, ongoing national effort to help prevent illegal “straw” purchases of firearms, the National Shooting Sports Foundation is reminding the public in and around the cities of...
View ArticleGun Laws in Some U.S. Cities More Similar to Highly-Restrictive Mexico than...
The Second Amendment, as affirmed by the Heller and McDonald cases, protects the right of American citizens to possess guns regardless of geographic boundaries within the U.S., yet cities like...
View ArticleChicago’s Mayor Knows How to Play Hard Ball
The Chicago City Council with great reluctance in the last full week of June ended its long-standing prohibition and approved an ordinance intended to satisfy a federal court order to allow firearms...
View ArticleChicago, We’ve Got a (Crime) Problem
Everyone talks tough when it comes to Chicago’s illegal use of guns in violent crime. Except, that is, for the courts. This city, with one of the worst crime problems involving guns and strictest gun...
View ArticleChicago Campaign Targets Illegal Gun Purchases
NSSF, ATF, Area Law Enforcement Emphasize ‘Don’t Lie for the Other Guy’ CHICAGO — As part of an ongoing national effort to help prevent illegal “straw” purchases of firearms, the National Shooting...
View ArticleNSSF Issues Statement on Chicago Gun Trace Report
NEWTOWN, Conn. – The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), the trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry, today issued the following statement. Gun Trace Report 2017 issued at...
View ArticleArbitrary Gun Laws Stand No Chance Against Crime
The debate over gun control is intensifying as we move into the 2020 election, and with that comes the need for the staunchest defense of our Second Amendment rights. At this year’s International...
View ArticleLockdowns and Gun Control Fail Chicago Again
Chicago is proving strict gun control laws are a failure. Sadly, it’s a lesson that is costing lives. City and state officials, however, are refusing to learn this tragic lesson. Criminal misuse of...
View ArticleChicago Mayor’s Pleas Risks Lives
The Windy City has a serious leadership problem. Amid the coronavirus pandemic and now widespread looting and riots, the violence and crime in Chicago is historically bad. But it is Democratic Mayor...
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