Boomland, 11 miles from the Illinois border on I-57 Posted on 04/17/2023 6:12:38 AM PDT by marktwain
On the way to the NRA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, there was time to consider the changes since this correspondent had last been here in 2014; much pavement has passed under my vehicle’s tires. Nine years ago: Illinois had shall issue. Carry by out-of-state permit holders or people from Constitutional Carry states is permitted as you pass through Illinois. Fortunately, all the states passed through from Dallas, Texas, to Indianapolis, Indiana, have become Constitutional Carry states. Except for Illinois.
The rules in Illinois become complicated if you step outside of your vehicle. My solution was not to stop while in Illinois. That meant no gas or food or lodging, or potty breaks while in the State of Illinois. This takes some preparation and thought.
Across the state on Interstate 57 and Interstate 70 was about 230 miles, according to my odometer. 11 miles before the border, in Missouri, on I-57, is a wonderful place called Boomland. Boomland specializes in things which cost less in the free states. Gasoline is about 40 cents a gallon less expensive than across the border in Illinois.
Boomland, 11 miles from the Illinois border on I-57
Cigarettes are much less expensive. The limit was five cartons per customer. Business was brisk. Fireworks were plentiful and available at what seems a perpetual promotion at such border equivalents of “tariff free” shops: buy one, get one free! The business was booming! The restroom was clean, spacious, and not crowded, even with the lines waiting to purchase gas at one of the numerous pumps.
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Last year I bought a travel trailer in Missouri and then went to visit a cousin in Indiana. Because I had a firearm, I detoured south so I wouldn’t have to go through Illinois. No way was I going put myself at risk with the jackboot thug police in Illinois.
Ol’ Norm Stewart with the Mizzou Tigers Basketball team had the right mindset to impart to his team when he visited my Jayhawks in Lawrence, Kansas.
He would drive from Columbia, Missouri with the team and instead of going all the way to Lawrence, Kansas he would stop 60 miles short and stay in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The next day the team bus would have refueled with Missouri taxed gasoline and everyone knew that they ave better already have bought snacks, drinks and water because one they crossed into Jayhawk Kansas they would not by a thing or stop in Kansas for any reason. They would continues straight to the KU campus and Allen Fieldhouse and exit the bus to the visiting team locker room. Not a dime spent in the enemy state.
2020 presidential election.
NYS is the same way.
It’s a shame how Democrat politicians can ruin a state, city, and county. They are good places for common-sense Americans to avoid.
My wife want us to visit relatives out east.
I just tell her NO.
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