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.
(If you would like to include your organization or events on our calendar, please contact us and we'll accommodate you)
As Chairman of the Law & Justice Committee of the McHenry County Board, Nick Provenzano has led the fight in
support of the 2nd Amendment and gun owner’s rights. His recent leadership to introduce the Pro 2nd Amendment
Resolution led to a unanimous vote of support by all 24 county board members of our gun owners rights. Nick’s
leadership came at a difficult time in Northern Illinois and came prior to the Supreme Court ruling upholding 2nd
Amendment rights to individual citizens. Nick stood up to Chicago politicians and the Governor at a time when it wasn’t
politically correct.
Now Nick needs our help as he faces an Anti-gun Democrat challenger for his County Board seat in the fall election. This
opponent will surely use Nick’s defense of 2nd Amendment Rights as a tool to rally the Anti-gun radicals to defeat Nick in November. We can’t let that happen and now is our time to come together to help Nick’s campaign.
Please join with the Sportsman’s Association at a fundraising dinner on Nick’s behalf on September 18.
$30 per person Dinner & Cash Bar
McHenry VFW Post 4600
3002 W. Rte. 120 McHenry, IL
Details on this PDF.
Pasadena, Texas resident Joe Horn was protecting his neighbors posession when the robbers allegedly charged him, forcing him to defend himself with his shotgun.
Posted 04:20PM Jun 30, 2008 by MCSA
Just got in from seeing David Diaz get crushed by Manny Pacquiao and thought I'd scan the news really fast... While skimming, I came across this opinion piece in the LA Times:
How gun makers can help us
Make firearms manufacturers figure out how to reduce the 12,000 shooting deaths each year.Gun manufacturers insist that these deaths are not their fault, preferring to pin the blame on criminals and irresponsible dealers. They have fiercely resisted even minimal restrictions on sales and have simultaneously washed their hands of responsibility for this "collateral damage."
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We propose a new way to prod gun makers to reduce gun deaths, one that would be unlikely to put them out of business or to prevent law-abiding citizens from obtaining guns. By using a strategy known as "performance-based regulation," we would deputize private actors -- the gun makers -- to deal with the negative effects of their products in ways that promote the public good.
You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. Me... Right? This is wrong on so many levels, but I'll just pick one point:
Why would gun-makers agree to "performance-based" solutions where a government agency assesses penalty based on a manufacturers "share of the blame" when makers are already immune to civil prosecution from the consequences of a criminal's actions?
Posted 03:06AM Jun 29, 2008 by MCSA
Tribune reporter Dawn Turner Trice offers her insight regarding yesterday's landmark Supreme Court ruling in a op-ed "Repeal the 2nd Amendment". She offers her scholarly - but, as of yesterday, wholy misguided - view that, "The amendment was intended to protect the authority of the states to organize militias."
What irks me the most, however, is that Turner Tice, a civil rights advocate - just not for your 2nd Amendment civil right - feels that it is fit for any one group in an area to trump the rights of another group if they possess a majority in an that area. Isn't that what lead to part of what lead to that pickle known as the Civil War and the 1960's Civil Rights Movement?
One last thing that I feel compelled to address is her statement, "Citizens have had the right to protect themselves in their homes with other weapons, such as shotguns."
First, by following her logic, if citizens are allowed to own shotgun and guns are the problem, then why aren't shotgun crimes being decried by Chicago Mayor Daley? Oh yeah, it comes back to the fact that law-abiding gun owners aren't really the problem.
Second, the truth is that not everyone can handle a shotgun, even a small one like a .410 or a 28 Ga.: the elderly or infirm folks may be able to better control a small handgun. Regardless, law-abiding folks should have the right and the freedom to choose whatever tool works best for their needs!
Posted 01:16PM Jun 27, 2008 by MCSA
Following Thursday’s (5-4) ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment protects an individual civil right to keep and bear arms, and that a municipal gun ban violates that right, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) filed a federal lawsuit (complaint) challenging the City of Chicago’s long-standing handgun ban.
“Chicago’s handgun ban has failed to stop violent crime,” SAF founder Alan Gottlieb stated. “It’s time to give the Constitution a chance.”
Case has been filed this morning after the SCOTUS decision was announced!
Link added!
Posted 07:44PM Jun 26, 2008 by MCSA
DC Mayor Fenty and Police Cheif Lanier are upset...
So is Chicago Mayor Daley:
Again, we hear those tired old "Wild West" arguments, which haven't exactly happend in the 48 other states that actually have concealed carry, nevermind that the SCOTUS ruling just addressed the question of the Second Amendment being an individual right and if people could keep gun in their own homes.
Posted 02:00PM Jun 26, 2008 by MCSA
The US Supreme Court released it's ruling today affirming that the right to keep and bear arms is an indvidual right. The decision can be read by following this link. (PDF)
Some fallout and trivia:
The Brady Campaign is trying to do some fantastic spin. Go read it and laugh.
Let the backpedalling begin! Obama "Disavows" statements on DC case. While were on the subject: Amazing that a Constitutional Law teacher was so clueless about the meaning of rights.
Interesting that the votes were pretty much along partisan lines.
Posted 11:50AM Jun 26, 2008 by MCSA
I got this from my ma and it made me grin:
Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting.
Well, for example, the other day I went downtown and into a shop. I was only there for about 5 minutes, and when I came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket.I said to him, 'Come on, man, how about giving a retired person a break'?He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. I called him a 'Nazi.'He glared at me and wrote another ticket for having worn tires. So I called him a 'doughnut eating Gestapo.'He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first.
Then he wrote a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes.Personally, I didn't care. I came downtown on the bus, and the car that he was puttingThe more I abused him the more tickets he wrote.
the tickets on had a bumper sticker that said, 'Obama in '08 .'
(Click to buy a sticker!)
Posted 02:41PM Jun 25, 2008 by MCSA
I found this excellent commentary, courtesy of Xavier. Watch this video, then read below.
Each Presidential candidate is apparently in the dark regarding the "Gun Show Loophole." The imagery is deceptive. They are lying. Know what? There is no gun show loophole. At gun shows, the transfer of firearms must meet the exact same stringent criteria as in any other place in the state or municipality in which the gun show is being held.
What these politicians are advocating is preventing the private transfer of property between two private citizens. When a person owns a piece of property for their own use, be it a lawn mower, a wedding ring, a sofa and ottoman, a cord of firewood, or a gun, the state has no right or ability to regulate that transfer.
Closing the gun show loophole is not about preventing criminals from getting guns. Criminals steal guns through burglary. Criminals buy and barter for guns on the street from other criminals. Why? Because they are cheaper that way. What criminal wants to pay a fair market price for a gun when he can steal one or swap some crack for one?
No.....the gun show loophole fallacy is about two things.
1. It prevents honest citizens from rightfully buying and selling private property.
2. It gives politicians a talking point so they can look tough on crime to ignorant constituents.
Don't believe everything you hear.
I'll add some comments here too - In Illinois, private transfers between two FOID holders are legal, as the FOID is proof of character and background check.
Posted 12:03PM Jun 25, 2008 by MCSA
(Note: This was written by Breda, of the blog, "The Breda Fallacy". It was first posted in October of 2007 and subsequently re-posted by the Buckeye Firearms Association.)
They've found a body in the woods. Again. Another missing girl, woman, sister, mother, friend strangled, stabbed, shot, raped, mutilated, dismembered and tossed in the brush, in a ditch, beside railroad tracks, in a dumpster, in the ocean like so much garbage. The details don't really matter. They were all guilty of nothing more than perhaps smiling at the wrong man, speaking to the wrong stranger, being at the wrong place at the wrong time, not being wary enough while going about their daily lives, not realizing that they were prey, that someone was watching them, following them and thinking violent thoughts about them.
The photographs their loved ones give to the police are all eerily similar..a sideways smile, a dream behind the eyes. They could be me, or you, your best friend, your neighbor or your mother. And then the body is found and the coroner talks about needing dental records, about decomposition, about DNA. I can never get over the horror of it, those women, their thoughts and hopes and precious temples of flesh so quickly turned to nothing but scraps of meat and bones and if never found, nothing. Forgotten, except for the whispered hometown legends about the girl who got lost, disappeared without a trace.
How fragile we are.
Every time I hear another one of these stories, I decide that this will never happen to me. That I will not be a victim. A man will never understand the fear a woman has walking across a dark parking lot alone. How it may be a risky thing to take a walk by yourself around your own neighborhood. How no amount of judo or karate will make a difference if you are a small female person and there's a large male person who's running after you or, God forbid, has gotten close enough to put his hands on you.
I have two defenses. #1, listen to that internal warning alarm and pay attention to my surroundings and the people in it. #2, get my concealed carry permit. I'm halfway there.
"Abe Lincoln may have freed all men, but Sam Colt made them equal."
Women, this is for you too. Don't be afraid of protecting yourself. You really are worth it.
Posted 07:24AM Jun 24, 2008 by MCSA
The blogger, Second City Cop, put it best:
Posted 05:49PM Jun 20, 2008 by MCSA
Trib columnist John Kass wieghs in on Chicago-style clout, err "gun control":
But what's not often reported by the decidedly pro-gun-control
media is thatsince Chicago's anti-handgun law went into effect
in 1982, only two classes of people have had ready access to firearms:The criminals. And the politicians.
Posted 11:19AM Jun 20, 2008 by MCSA
Armed and Safe recently wrote about Mark Kirk's newly introduced legislation, H.R. 6257, calling for a new ban on semi-automatic rifles. AR-15's, FAL's, etc are all named.
This guy is supposed to be on our side!
Posted 03:13PM Jun 17, 2008 by MCSA
Jesse Jackson came and went on June 15th. He was protesting the empty DSA factory. (They get weekends off...)
Did anyone notice? We sure didn't. Some of us participated in the McHenry Co. VFW's Flag Day celebration and my family was busy enjoying a pre-Father's Day BBQ on a nice sunny summer day.
The media hardly covered it too... Almost nobody, outside of Father Pfleger and Mayor Daley that is, cared too much to comment.
I wouldn't post anything, except that I ran across this excerpt from Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran in the Lake Co. News-Sun:
In a statement that noted his office spent $5,200 providing security at an August 2007 protest outside D.S. Arms, 27 W. 900 Industrial Ave., Curran suggested it would be more beneficial to find alternative solutions to curb random acts of violence involving guns.
Go read the whole thing.
Posted 08:33AM Jun 17, 2008 by MCSA
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Posted 07:21AM Jun 16, 2008 by MCSA
Fox 39 coverage of the recent Winnebago County CCW public forum... Look for SLRA and MCSA's own Jim S.! Way to Go Jim S.!!
From what everyone says, it was overwhelmingly pro-CCW!
View the segement here.
Posted 12:52PM Jun 13, 2008 by MCSA
Man, can Helmke spin it or what?! From ABC:
'We've Lost the Battle on What the 2nd Amendment Means,' Brady Campaign Head Says
"We've lost the battle on what the Second Amendment means," campaign president Paul Helmke told ABC News. "Seventy-five percent of the public thinks it's an individual right. Why are we arguing a theory anymore? We are concerned about what we can do practically."
"We're expecting D.C. to lose the case," Helmke said. "But this could be good from the standpoint of the political-legislative side."
If the Supreme Court strikes down the D.C. gun ban, the Brady Campaign is hoping that it will reorient gun control groups around more limited measures that will be harder to cast as infringements of the Second Amendment.
"The NRA [National Rifle Association] won't have this fear factor," Helmke said.
Posted 12:46PM Jun 13, 2008 by MCSA
We're sad to hear that Linda Kovalik has decided to move to Alaska, but we totally understand why... But, is it wrong to keep our fingers and toes crossed, hoping for some Moose-steaks or Salmon fillets?!
Best of luck on the move and in the Great White North! You will be missed!
Posted 06:24PM Jun 12, 2008 by MCSA
I added some new events and decided to condense some of the links since it was getting a bit long...
Check out the new link sections!
Posted 12:53PM Jun 12, 2008 by MCSA
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Eighth-grader charged as adult for bringing gun to school
A 15-year-old has been charged as an adult for bringing a gun to his Southeast Side elementary school on Monday. The gun was not discharged and no one was injured.
A 15-year-old 8th grader?
Posted 12:08PM Jun 12, 2008 by MCSA
