‘IT DEPENDS’: Deciding whether or not to register is an intensely personal decision we all have to make…
While about 15,000 Illinois gun owners have registered, 2.4 million of us have not. Instead, we have arrived at the point in the gun registration window that we have to make a final decision: Do we comply with Pritzker's new gun and magazine ban's registration requirement in one way or…
JUST SAY ‘NO’! Educate your family on NOT answering police questions or consenting to searches
Governor Pritzker’s so-called Protect Illinois Communities Act requires existing owners register their defensive semi-auto, magazine-fed rifles and other defensive firearms by December 31st. Given the current non-compliance rate of 99.7%, clearly there are potentially millions of banned guns out there still unregistered. Will police knock on your door? That’s very…
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS: Anatomy of a coverup in Illinois government
In regione caecorum rex est luscus In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King by Desiderius Erasmus, a GSL member I really hope this doesn’t happen and were I an advisor to the Governor I would tell him so, but I’m not, so here it is. Sometime…
DO IT NOW! Tell *everyone* you got your naughty guns out of Illinois
(GSL) - As of this writing, 99.7% of gun owners in Illinois have elected not to comply with the new PICA gun and magazine ban’s gun registration requirement. That is effectively everyone. We’ve repeatedly covered multiple reasons for not registering. These include the governor’s plans to “close the existing owner…
STILL 99.4% NON-COMPLIANCE: ISP releases Week 11 registration numbers
Will the State of Illinois reach a 1% compliance rate with their beleaguered gun registration scheme? The Magic 8 Ball says it's pretty much a sure bet at this point as ISP dropped their Week 11 numbers at noon today. A grand total of 15,164 FOID holders have now registered…
DON’T LET THEM GASLIGHT YOU: You’re not going to lose your FOID card for failing to register absent a FELONY conviction
State Rep. Bob Morgan and JB Pritzker have tipped their hands. They're happy that "thousands" of gun owners have registered. They're BIG MAD that MILLIONS have not. Instead of going after criminal gang members who shoot up Chicago streets on a very regular basis, Morgan, Pritzker and their fellow gun…
GOOD NEWS! Sound of Freedom available on Amazon Prime: ‘God’s children are no longer for sale.’
The Conservative Treehouse posts some outstanding content, including deep analysis of politics. Sundance runs the place and has great insight into things. The Sound of Freedom movie was released over the Independence Day weekend and outperformed all of the mainstream media's expectations. Why, it's almost as if they wanted to…
STATE OF LITERACY IN ILLINOIS: Quarter of Cook County adults illiterate
We've covered the abysmal public education system in Chicago and how it leads to violent crime and gang membership. "How so?" you ask? JB Pritzker brags that 87% of kids graduate high school. But they can't read or do math. They're semi-illiterate at best. And a quarter of them are…
GSL Exec Director Report: Anxiety Reigns
I’ll admit, like many folks, I’m feeling anxiety as the end of the year approaches. “What do I do with my ‘naughty guns’?” was first and foremost on my mind as it is with hundreds of thousands of my fellow gun owners in our state. For the record, I will…
Adding some excitement to one man’s Christmas: Finding old Dynamite in great grandpa’s shed
On Reddit, a guy in Georgia posted on the little present his great grandpa left him in the shed out back. Specifically, a badly crystallizing cluster of four sticks of Dynamite stored in a mesh bag. He made the discovery on Christmas eve, per the post. Four sticks of Dynamite…