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.
Law-abiding gun owners in Illinois still can't carry concealed in Illinois, however, they can become carry permit holders in other states like Florida and Utah. Many local stores will teach the law-abiding gun owner how to properly become a carry permit holder in these states.
One example is D&J Guns in Lakemoor, IL. Find their link in the sidebar and call 'em for more info!
One final item of note is that Winnebago Co. is going to put the firearm carry permit issue on the November ballot so that voters can decide if the Sheriff can issue carry permits to law-abiding gun owners.
News article here.
Posted 03:06PM Jul 23, 2008 by MCSA
This is a great read from the "Front Site, Press" blog.
"International evidence and comparisons have long been offered
as proof of the mantra that more guns mean more deaths and that
fewer guns, therefore, mean fewer deaths.1 Unfortunately, such
discussions are all too often been afflicted by misconceptions and
factual error and focus on comparisons that are unrepresentative.
It may be useful to begin with a few examples. There is a compound
assertion that (a) guns are uniquely available in the United
States compared with other modern developed nations, which is
why (b) the United States has by far the highest murder rate.
Though these assertions have been endlessly repeated, statement
(b) is, in fact, false and statement (a) is substantially so…
…If the mantra “more guns equal more death and fewer guns equal
less death” were true, broad based cross-national comparisons
should show that nations with higher gun ownership per capita
consistently have more death. Nations with higher gun
ownership rates, however, do not have higher murder or suicide
rates than those with lower gun ownership. Indeed many
high gun ownership nations have much lower murder rates.
Consider, for example, the wide divergence in murder rates
among Continental European nations with widely divergent
gun ownership rates…"
Posted 02:34PM Jul 23, 2008 by MCSA
From CBS2Chicago, we hear of another gun buy-back program. $100.00 prepaid MasterCard for any gun turned in.
"Today I'm asking every resident of Chicago to turn in their firearm -- shotgun, rifles, automatic, semi automatic, pistol, revolver… No questions asked," Daley said.
I think that the SecondCityCop (Chicago Police Officer, blogger, and 2nd Amendment supporter) summed it up the best:
Because god forbid you have guns around when the crime running rampant across the city comes to your home. After all, didn't the governor just say he's going to send the National Guard and State Troopers to the City because it's out of control? Yeah, we know he backtracked a bit, but J-Fed still had his first meeting with the troopers to see how an agency short 500 officers is going to expend the manpower necessary to shore up another Department that's short a few thousand street officers.
If you've got a piece of crap gun that's rusted shut and wouldn't fire if you soaked it for a week in a vat of machine oil, go get your $100 card. Use it to buy a decent gun. But Daley's gun laws are going to come tumbling down around his ears in short order. No need to give away decent guns for $100. You know the criminals aren't.
By the way, this raises some interesting question about our FOID policy: How can people who don't possess a FOID card legally turn guns in without being subject to the law? I mean, seriously, they're transporting guns to a church illegally and they're basically admitting that they kept unregistered long arms or illegal handguns in willful violation of the law!
Oh, I see, one law applies to them and another applies to us... Hypocrites...
Posted 02:17PM Jul 23, 2008 by MCSA
There has been some buzz about this - NYPOST Article
"An outspoken Long Island gun owner's home was raided by Nassau County detectives, who seized two dozen weapons he lawfully owns just one day after Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's office made a 911 call about him."
Waiting for more info as this develops...
Posted 02:07PM Jul 23, 2008 by MCSA
