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30 days to go until Illinois gets unregulated carry! It’s not really Constitutional Carry, which four states enjoy and another (Arkansas) will have later this summer, because local home-rule government units can place restrictions (albeit, probably unconstitutional) and may try to make an arrest of an Illinois gun owner carrying concealed – or otherwise.Of course, if they choose to make an arrest based upon a local ordinance that regulates transportation or possession of a firearm that’s contrary to the Seventh Circuit’s Moore decision striking down the Illinois prohibition on carry outside the home as unconstitutional, they will be risking...

To Washington County Residents, 03-08-2013 Recent comments on gun control by Milwaukee Police Chief Flynn highlight, for me, a problem with law enforcement in this country. Too often, law enforcement leaders confuse all citizens with criminals, and see themselves as “kings” of their jurisdiction instead of employees of the people. In 2009, when Wisconsin’s Attorney General issued his advisory memo on open carry, it created little discussion within my department. That is because we already knew it was legal and protected by the Constitution. Chief Flynn’s position quoted from JSOnline was, “my message to my troops is if you see...

We were tipped off by John Boch at Guns Save Life that there’s a small rebellion brewing among downstate Illinois state’s attorneys over the right to bear arms, something that – unlike any other state in the union – is illegal. myfoxchicago.com is reporting that Mike Valentine, Edwards County state’s attorney (who’s also happens to be in a reelection fight), confirms that he won’t prosecute any lawful gun owners found carrying a gat. Interesting how the prospect of losing your job focuses the mind, isn’t it? But Edwards county’s a sparsely populated rural tract in the state’s southeast corner, about...

Less than three weeks after a jury found 18-year-old Troy residnet Sean Combs not guilty of disturbing the peace and brandishing a firearm, Combs picked up his M1 Garand rifle – which had been used as evidence during his trial – from Birmingham Police on Monday. Then, he and a few other open carry advocates took to the streets of Birmingham once again Monday evening, openly carrying rifles and handguns at Shain Park. The group, organized through opencarry.org, all share one interest: raising awareness of the right to openly carry firearms – and not get in trouble for it. "I'm...

BELLEVUE, WA --(Ammoland.com)- Squandering an opportunity to redeem the Garden State for its long disparagement of the Second Amendment – and in particular, the right to carry – New Jersey’s newly appointed Attorney General has instead slapped gun owners in the face in the latest set of papers in a federal lawsuit brought by ANJRPC and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) to overturn New Jersey’s unconstitutional handgun carry laws. The State’s latest filing maintains its absurd position that the Second Amendment does not exist outside the home, and that it is the State’s responsibility to protect the public from law...

The gunfight is over, and the cities lost. The question is: Do they realize it yet? For decades now, large majorities of urbanites - the people, the politicians, the interest groups - have favored stricter controls on guns, for reasons city residents find self-evident. In the last five years in Philadelphia, 1,656 people have been slain, and of those, more than 1,300 died of gunshot wounds. For many city residents, myself included, guns represent a plague, not protection. From the perspective of bloody Philadelphia, gun-rights advocates - and their allies in Harrisburg and Washington - appear all too willing to...

Fidel and the Constitutional Coup in Honduras Honduras, 26.07.09 - Baldomero Vásquez: diarioSPAMFILTER@elheraldo.hn RATE * Currently 5 / 5 Stars. * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 Current rating: 5 Votes: 5 Comments Print Send 3 Baldomero Vasquez The most important test that passes a conspiracy against democracy in Honduras was the blessing that Fidel Castro, in his thinking "a gesture not forget that you gave to the failed constitutional coup carried out by Zelaya. Venezuela in the attempted seizure of power via coup d'etat, to bury democracy and socialism were building boom during the armed struggle...

Fidel and the Constitutional Coup in Honduras Honduras, 26.07.09 - Baldomero Vásquez: diarioSPAMFILTER@elheraldo.hn RATE * Currently 5 / 5 Stars. * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 Current rating: 5 Votes: 5 Comments Print Send 3 Baldomero Vasquez The most important test that passes a conspiracy against democracy in Honduras was the blessing that Fidel Castro, in his thinking "a gesture not forget that you gave to the failed constitutional coup carried out by Zelaya. Venezuela in the attempted seizure of power via coup d'etat, to bury democracy and socialism were building boom during the armed struggle...