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.

Upcoming Events

This includes events for most of the clubs listed under our "clubs" section.
(We're trying to cover Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin - anything about about 2 hours by car.)

(If you would like to include your organization or events on our calendar, please contact us and we'll accommodate you)

Salute To Nick Provenzano Thursday, September 18th 5pm – 7:30pm


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.

The New England Journal of Medicine Stumps for Gun Control post-Heller

The New England Journal of Medicine

It is well documented in the medical literature that regulation of guns benefits the public health. For example, a careful study4 demonstrated that the 1976 restrictive handgun law in the District of Columbia, which was the focus of the Heller case, resulted in an immediate decline of approximately 25% in homicides and suicides by firearms, but there was no such decline in adjacent areas that did not have restrictive laws.

Wait a minute! Guns are available in the neighboring states and they don't have the same crime rates that DC has! More gun doesn't mean more crime! The truth is that DC has a cultural violence problem that has been displaced by gentrification, much like Chicago's "gun-problem".

They are right about this:

With the Supreme Court's decision and the expectation of a substantial reduction in gun regulation, we are poised to witness another epidemiologic study of the effect of regulation on gun violence. With this experiment, which may play out in many American cities, we will know in the coming years whether the overturned laws reduced death and injury from handguns.

Since the cultural problems seem to be getting better, mortgage-crisis to boot, I doubt that we'll see "blood in the streets" like DC through the mid-1990's.

Posted 04:12AM Jul 10, 2008 by MCSA

Don't Forget to Come Tomorrow!

You might want to bring some rain gear too!!

I'll be at Argo Tea (16 E Randolph at ~10:30 AM)...

 

ProGun Rally!

 

The blogger, Second City Cop, put it best:

As this should be coming on the heels of the DC v Heller decision, we'd expect a decent turn out. Even a few thousand gun owners would make Daley and Co. shit in their drawers. Jesse, Phleger and their idiots can barely get a hundred people together lately.

Posted 03:57AM Jul 10, 2008 by MCSA