Don’t forget, Cook County FPD is a designated “no concealed carry” zone.
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I didn’t know that. I had stopped going to eat lunch in the forest preserve years ago, it had gotten so bad.
I don’t carry anyways but lately I’ve thought about trying to get a concealed license, but to be honest, I haven’t fired a gun since qualifying in 1965.
I made it my whole life (even in Nam, I hated carrying my weapon because it got in the way, I worked a dredger or other heavy equipment, and it was a pain to have over your shoulder), and I cut my teeth back home doing sprinklers in the projects (Diversey, Ida Wells, Cabrini Green) and never carried a weapon cept a big ass pipe wrench, but this year, I’m really thinking of arming myself. I even have a retired cop friend who keeps wanting to take me to the pistol range, I just never thought I’d need to carry a gun after Nam, especially stateside, in my own country. I thought I was done with guns, I had enough of them back then, but now... I’m really having to consider it I reckon.