We Defend Your Right to Defend Yourself
By Mike Keleher Yesterday, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) sent out a press release touting an enormous attack on gun rights. called the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019. Anyone surprised by this? With Congress back in session for a week now they not only start the year off in a…
Photo Credit: Wikipedia By Mike Keleher Like most of you, I don't pay much attention to the sheer volume of laws passed each year by state law makers. This year, 1044 laws were approved by the legislature and signed off on by the governor. However, I do perk up when…
Photo Credit: Hinterlandoutfitters.com By Mike Keleher BATF& E rules banned the Bump Stock on December 18, 2018 and give owners until late March of 2019 to turn them in or destroy them. Also on 18 December, 2018, a lawsuit challenging the confiscatory ban was filed in Federal Court. A plaintiff…
Merry Christmas! And Happy Hanakkuh as appropriate. Because of the Christmas season, we have some meeting cancellations. The Board of Directors meeting normally on the fourth Thursday has been cancelled by orders of President Ryan Sweeney. The Chicagoland December meeting, normally on the last Sunday of the month, is cancelled.…
By Mike Keleher Canik is a company in Turkey that has been turning out modern pistols for a couple of years, and got into the American market with some budget priced 9mm polymer framed pistols with a funky decocker/safety and SA/DA actions that did not garner much attention in the…
By Mike Keleher This one is a whopper. Sixteen U.S. House of Representatives Democrats filed H.R. 7115 3D Firearms Prohibitions Act on Friday, November 2nd, 2018 while everyone was looking the other way just hours before the mid-term elections. You can read it at https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/7115/text?r=1 The title, the 3-D Firearms…
by Mike Keleher Well the mid-term election is over...thank you very much! It is now finally safe to turn on my TV, radio, pick up my mail or even answer my phone again and not be bombarded by negative attack ads! Good grief. I have been on the planet…
Rich fat cat JB Pritzker talks one game publicly. Meanwhile, he acts very differently in his private beliefs. In his private life, he makes it a point to hire non-union labor while courting unions in his campaign for Illinois Governor. In his private conversations, he grades African-Americans on a scale…
By Mike Keleher On Monday, October 08, 2018, President Trump spoke in front of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) national convention in Orlando, Florida. This convention has historically been quite a big showplace for Presidents to come in and make a pro-law enforcement speech. I was at…
From the Chicago Tribune: Hearing scheduled as gun-rights advocacy groups look to overturn Deerfield assault weapons ban Attorneys for the village of Deerfield and gun rights advocacy groups are due back in court Oct. 12 to wage arguments in two lawsuits challenging the village’s authority to ban assault weapons. In…