Supporting gun ownership and sportsmen's rights in response to the flurry of anti-gun and sport legislation under consideration in Congress and the Illinois State Legislature.
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On May 23rd, Jan Bosman wrote a letter to the editor of the Northwest Herald which essentially mocked the fact that McHenry County passed the Illinois Pro-2nd Amendment Resolution. I won't reprint it here, but Bosman argues that since the Supreme Court is deciding whether the 2nd Amendment was a collective vs. individual right, we shouldn't have passed anything.
Regardless of how the Supreme Court will decide, Bosman's argument ignores the Illinois State Constitution, where the right to keep and bear arms is clearly protected as an individual right:
ARTICLE 1, SECTION 22: RIGHT TO ARMSIn addition, Bosman implies that the ability of law abiding folks to use firearms in self defense is somehow wrong because any death was wrong - punctuating this idea with a few lines of John Donne's famous meditation, "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
Subject only to the police power, the right of the individual citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Posted 10:42PM May 27, 2008 by MCSA
A lot of other folks have discussed the recent Alderman Richard Mell/Daley fiasco and we touched a bit on this at our last meeting. For folks that haven't followed the Trib or the Sun-Times, here's what happened in a nutshell:
Chicago Alderman Richard Mell, father-in-law of Blagojevich, forgets to registers several pieces of his extensive firearm collection. He realizes his mistake and tries to register, after the fact, those items. The CPD essentially tells him, "TOO BAD!" and refuses to budge. So Alderman Mell write a new law that'd allow him to register the items. Daley, ever the anti-civil rights pro-gun control proponent conspicuously endorses Alderman Mell's law claiming that it would allow them to find out how many guns are out there - nevermind that the law would only apply to people whose registrations lapsed in the past few months.
Now the Fraternal Order of Police have chimed in too: Seems that they're miffed because their federal right to carry after retiring can't be exercised since they aren't allowed to register weapons post retirement...
Wow, talk about unintended consequences...
Posted 06:40PM May 27, 2008 by MCSA
From Caleb at "Call me Ahab", a study by UC Davis that calls into question the efficacy of the microstamping.
Key quotes:
At the present time, therefore, because its forensic potential has yet to be fully assessed, a mandate for the implementation of this technology in all new semiautomatic handguns sold in the state of California is counter-indicated.and
The vendor was supplied with 14 firing pins which were subsequently engraved at a cost of $3,500 or ~ $250.00 per firing pin.Funny, they kept telling us that it wouldn't be so expensive...
Posted 06:22PM May 27, 2008 by MCSA
This Thursday is the last match of the season for MISS. They're having a pizza & beer party afterwards, so if you're interested, come out and shoot or come for pizza.
Posted 11:31AM May 27, 2008 by MCSA
I added a calendar link to the upcoming rifle shoot on July 27th:
Posted 11:27AM May 27, 2008 by MCSA
"These heroes are dead. They died for liberty-they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadow of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or storm, each in the windowless palace of rest. Earth may run red with other wars-they are at peace. In the midst of the battles, in the roar of conflicts, they found the serenity of death."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to post this yesterday... To all those that served, thank you.
Posted 10:56AM May 27, 2008 by MCSA
