The US Supreme Court this morning released their list of orders after considering “The Magnificent Seven” cases last Thursday in conference.  The good news?  They didn’t deny cert in our case (reject our appeal).   The bad news?  They rejected the Bianchi case out of Maryland.  (Giving plenty of clickbait opportunities for YouTube “creators”.) Our case and the five others from Illinois remain pending. (Added:  Todd Vandermyde believes that the fact our cases weren’t mentioned today means they were automatically “re-listed” among pending certiorari application ..read more

If you wonder why Chicago has a serious crime problem, look no further than its city council and other elected officials.  Some of them are just downright Marxists, elected by low-information voters susceptible to pandering and platitudes.  Take Rossana Rodriguez. This Democratic Socialist of America (a nice way of saying Marxist/Communist) pillar of the community claims that punishing criminals is racist and calls America a garbage society. Fox News has more. FIRST ON FOX – A socialist member of Chicago’s city council believes that the idea of using police to ensure safe stree ..read more

Guns Save Life will draw the winner for our Great Guns 2024 drawing on June 13th at the Mattoon/Charleston GSL meeting.  Interestingly, we noticed that YouTube content creator Garand Thumb reviewed the M1A Scout Squad that we’re giving away on his YT channel last weekend. Obviously he’s put a bunch of stuff on his rifle, trying to turn a 9.25 pound rifle into a 12 pound behemoth.  Ours is stock. For more on how you can get tickets for this gun, click here.   ..read more

What the difference between the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the coming 2024 DNC event?  Well, in 1968 the mayor was on the side of law-and-order.  Today, the mayor sides with Antifa and so-called “pro-Palestinian” protesters. And comments this past weekend from Mayor Let’s Go Brandon further illuminate the difference between how the city will respond to lawless “peaceful protesters.” Chicago is gonna burn, folks. BURN THIS INTO YOUR MIND:  You don’t want to be within a quarter tank of gas of the DNC event August 19-22. From WirePoints: Mayor Johnson deepens concern ..read more

In an interview with reporter Greg Bishop, the Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly shared some updated registration numbers for February and March of 2024. Kelly indicated that an additional 682 Illinois gun owners registered regulated “naughty” guns, or parts and accessories. Given the latest updated number on total FOID holders which now stands at 2,473,655, that means that 98.53% of Land of Lincoln FOID holders registered NOTHING under the so-called Protect Illinois Communities Act gun registry provision. And only a fool would think that only 1.4% of Illinois gun owners owned Ameri ..read more

As though Americans, and Illinoisans, needed another reason to practice their “ABCs” – otherwise know as “Always Be Carrying” – the conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Iran provides it. Not because Iran is going to invade downtown Chicago, but because of terrorist sleeper agents embedded in our communities might activate, disrupting our lives and killing our fellow Americans. Thanks to our porous border, millions of unknown persons have entered our nation. Not all of these military-aged males have America’s best interests at heart. Open-source intelligence data suggests there may be ..read more

Back thirty years ago, semi-auto handguns were just starting to become popular.  Manufacturers have worked out the kinks with double-stack magazines for the most part.  Reliability kept improving as did form factors and trigger quality. Today, everyone loves semi-auto pistols, particularly for self-defense applications.  Greater carry capacity and less complicated reloads have made them very appealing to average people defending themselves from bad people with evil in their hearts. Even those folks who probably should choose a revolver for self-defense because they have precious ..read more

Instapundit posted a press release from George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf on how to deal with these so-called “Pro-Palestinian” agitators on American college campuses.  In short, hit them where it hurts. llegal protests on university campuses have already triggered a number of legal actions, but so far the lawsuits likely to be most successful, and most effective at strongly discouraging similar criminal activity in the future – class actions brought by as few as one student or faculty member – seem to be overlooked, says a class action expert. Public interest law p ..read more

The Bad Idea Factory in Springfield, known as the IL General Assembly, has all manner of special interest groups lobbying for more state money from our very bankrupt state.  Among those are organizations that hire criminal thugs to act as “peacekeepers” and “violence interrupters” on the streets of Chicago.  At least when they’re not robbing, carjacking or otherwise victimizing others.  Or shooting themselves in the ass (like “violence interrupter” Greg Sherman in the photo at his court arraignment). One group is lobbying for ANOTHER $140M in state funding for these ineffective ..read more

Folks, if you live, work or play anywhere near Chicago, you should make plans to take some time away during that third week in August.  You don’t want to be within a quarter tank of gas of the Democratic National Convention Circus. From a comment at Second City Cop: I have heard very serious rumblings that the Feds are demanding accountability from the city and CPD for ACTUAL manpower numbers. Suddenly they are concerned the Dem convention could be shut down or overrun by swarms of nutbags funded by…the Dems. We have been begging for years for adequate manpower to simply protect our taxp ..read more