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On the first day of enrollment, over 4,500 people signed up for IL Concealed Carry Permits. http://www.suntimes.com/m/24805065-773/on-first-day-of-online-sign-up-4500-seek-concealed-carry-permits.html

Self-proclaimed alpha male goes hunting. (or sissy pretends he's a guy) http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30909.html Schumer goes hunting, bags Nelson By: Ben Smith and Carrie Budoff Brown December 22, 2009 05:06 PM EST The perils of political hunting trips range from mockery...

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/12/homeowner-wont-be-charged-in-shooting.html Homeowner won't be charged in shooting December 24, 2008 at 12:20 PM No charges will be filed against a homeowner who shot and killed a man who police believe had broken into his home on the Northwest...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/opinion/23tue2.html December 23, 2008 Editorial Price of Lax Gun Laws For years, the gun lobby has defeated new gun control laws partly by arguing that stronger laws do not deter crime. A study prepared by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a bipartisan group...

This is 1 block from the Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wCmXZTWHhs Luckily no handguns are allowed in the toddling town.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/383091,CST-NWS-bubba13.article Baby Bubba's got a Beretta -- and a license 10-month-old is law-abiding citizen, so FOID card is no problem May 13, 2007 BY HOWARD LUDWIG My 10-month-old son has the cutest FOID card. Howard David Ludwig --...

A Liberal Case for Gun Rights Helps Sway Judiciary By ADAM LIPTAK In March, for the first time in the nation’s history, a federal appeals court struck down a gun control law on Second Amendment grounds. Only a few decades ago, the decision would have been unimaginable. There used to be an...

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2007-04-17T192809Z_01_N17445050_RTRUKOC_0_US-WHITEHOUSE-INCIDENT.xml&src=rss&rpc=22 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Secret Service officers were injured on Tuesday after a gun held by another Secret Service officer...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0701040060jan04,1,3840091.story Daley aims to pass new gun laws By Gary Washburn Tribune staff reporter Published January 4, 2007 Buoyed by the General Assembly's passage of a gun-control measure amid a long string of rejections...

Last week at the range, I thought I was pushing the trigger, as my shots grouped to the left of center. I didn't notice that one of the roll pins in my Novak cut, Springfield installed, adjustable rear sight had broken. This makes 3 for 3 if we include ChuckB's 2 broken sights on his Loaded. I...

Just finished reading the editorial in the December 2006 Harper's. It's entitled Loaded and it is one of the most literate and compelling pro 2nd Amendment pieces I've read. It starts with Orwell's quote about the rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat, continues through Thoreau...

Packing heat on the hill The NRA is riding high; gun control is a political loser By Will Sullivan Posted Sunday, July 9, 2006 Oklahoma Rep. Dan Boren's Washington office features his hunting trophies, including a stuffed wild turkey and a mounted deer head. The freshman congressman's...

http://www.newsobserver.com/114/story/399998.html Barry Saunders, Staff Writer Accident my eye. Or rather, Harry Whittington's eye.If you believe it was just an accident that Vice President Dick Cheney shot his hunting companion last weekend, you obviously have never seen "The Godfather"...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/redeye/chi-060125rapemain,1,5445462.story?coll=chi-news-hed The rape epidemic By Kathryn Masterson RedEye Published January 25, 2006 In December, over DePaul's winter break, police reported that a man broke into a student's apartment and...

Iran's leader challenges Europe to take back Jews in Israel By The Associated Press DAMASCUS - In a new attack on the existence of Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has challenged Europe to take back the Jews who emigrated to Israel, adding that no Jews would remain in Israel...

Blagojevich, Daley press for assault weapons ban The Associated Press Published January 17, 2006, 2:48 PM CST Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley renewed calls Tuesday for a statewide ban on assault weapons. The two Chicago Democrats, who have been pressing for the...

Daley says he'll continue his push for gun-control laws By Tara Burghart The Associated Press Published January 4, 2006, 6:47 PM CST Mayor Richard Daley said Wednesday he'll continue to push for "commonsense gun legislation" even though several of his proposals have failed to pass the...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/02/wruss02.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/01/02/ixportaltop.html As LBJ so nicely put it: "When you have'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow." Putin sends a shiver through Europe By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow...

http://www.suntimes.com/output/sports/cst-spt-bear16.html Bears' ties to gun range probed November 16, 2005BY MIKE MULLIGAN AND NATASHA KORECKI Staff Reporters Bears right tackle Fred Miller has been cleared by doctors and plans to play Sunday against the Carolina Panthers, the...

http://www.reason.com/0511/fe.js.freedom.shtml Freedom Riders How motorcyclists won the right to feel the wind in their hair—and why drivers still have to buckle up. Jacob Sullum "...Richard Quigley’s idea of fun, whether riding a motorcycle without a helmet or arguing with the police...