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Contact your local town board! The last straw (finally)? Palatine, Burr Ridge and Hoffman Estates; there are 20 villages with a significant population that are partly or mostly in other counties but Palatine is entirely within Cook...home values (therefore potential property tax $$$) in...

Start contacting your reps! Story SPRINGFIELD -- A suburban lawmaker is one step closer to protecting the Cabela's Outdoor Superstore in Hoffman Estates from proposed gun restrictions. State Rep. Randy Ramey, a Carol Stream Republican, proposed that no county could impose stricter...

...after being a chaperone on a kindergarten field trip, I hit a couple stores on the drive back. I swore I was just browsing, yet the checkbook came out for: 1. another P7PSP 2. P6/225 3. more magazines via CDNN Which makes four 9mm YTD (PSP and P228, post-New Year's Day, thisclose...

From UPI: The irony of someone requesting the Secret Service because of alleged threats, yet his own people aren't vetted... :)

Taking a Logistics class - "common carriers" have 4 obligations: 1. must ship anything presented (as long as it is a legal product) 2. without discrimination 3. must deliver (rather than, I suppose, keeping or diverting products) 4. charge a reasonable rate Railroads are common carriers...

OK, just saw this on ABC7Chicago. Rush proposed a national registry of firearms and national "possessor" licensing (including mandatory gun safety training of some sort), comparing it to a driver's license and car registrations. Since one can own any type of motor vehicle AND since one can...

Soon-to-be-FORMER Chicago Alderman Dorothy "The Hat" Tillman lost a runoff election yesterday. She is infamous for waving a gun around during a Council meeting. Now that she will no longer be a "peace officer" per Chicago regulations allowing aldermen to CCW if they wish, does this mean that...

Impulse buy today, my first SiG ever and my first '07 purchase. Factory refurb, 2x8-rd mags, 1x7-rd, two sets of grips, case, full factory warranty. Have to wait 5 days instead of 3 because of work... Quick Q's: 1. What works best (target/HD usage): 185, 200, 230 grain? Steady diet of +p...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070201/ap_on_re_us/suspicious_devices BOSTON - More than 10 blinking electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon. Most if not all...

I suspect I'm gonna get at least 10 different answers... What is the legalistic definition of a "thumbhole stock?" A hole for a single normal-sized thumb? What if it's elongated horizontally, but not vertically? Any stock that's not fully enclosed? Are Dragunov- or skeleton-style...

article here Mapquest shows the nearest school (Guilford HS) is ~0.70 miles by road, or a little over a half-mile as the crow flies. The charge filed doesn't make immediate sense. Something like "discharging a firearm within the city limits," "reckless endangerment," or even the...

I got this in the inbox from the RNC, and it is posted http://www.gop.com/survey but you must register to see the whole thing. Basically four questions that count, which are: 1.) Which issues will be most important in determining your vote this November? (select up to three) 2.) What is the...

If I buy a stripped lower and go through the process of legally making it a registered Short-Barreled Rifle, is it no longer an "assault weapon?" Were SBRs exempt from the Federal AWB? Are they exempt from California's AWB?

Well, there's Portgate, Lenovo (Chinese) selling computers to Dept of State and DOD, Checkpoint (Israeli) on a software deal for DOD, etc. etc. Lots of chest-pounding by Dems and Repubs and free-traders and globalists and protectionists and isolationists... After WTO and NAFTA, with illegals...

Please critique...I tried using gungrabber-type simple language. Gonna try the Chicago Tribune, Sun-Times and Daily Herald in a day or two. Remember - the average reader and editor doesn't know or care what defines an assault weapon Discharging a firearm in public is illegal. Possessing a...

http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=11101&categoryId=33803&top=Y MSRP seems high for what they are. If nothing else, they'll do a lot of "fleet sales" to LE departments so they will be out there. Looking at this as an...

Specifically, if police can ticket cars in a private lot or driveway for no license plates or city stickers. Also, without the owner's consent, no going on private property for fishing expeditions...unless there's evidence of a crime (needs PC and a warrant) or a felony-in-progress (don't need...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10727351/ Should companies be run in their best interest as long as it is legal? Should private companies be regulated for the state's/public's benefit? Is the Government of Maryland exempt (I assume that they have over 10k employees)?

I don't think I've ever started a threadhttp://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=176112that got closed, so please by civil. :) Points I was trying to make: 1. Illinois is a solidly Democratic state at the nationwide level because the IRP is so inept AND the DRP is functional, not from a...

I got a call today from the Illinois Republican Party hitting me up for donations. The party of soon-to-be-Nobel-Prize-winning Honest George Ryan; the party of "no CCW on my watch" Smilin' Jim Edgar; the party that couldn't come up with a viable candidate within the state to oppose Democrat...