The Illinois State Police (ISP) have fallen far off their required timetable for issuing FOID cards. Recently, ISP received 70,000 applications in one month. Issuance is taking about 64 days, although by statute they are to issue within 30 days.
Will this sign start springing up in yards across McHenry County and the State of Illinois?
If a burglar has mischief on his mind, will he pass up this house and choose the house next door?
Do you read the Chicago Tribune? Are you paying attention to the lawlessness in Chicago? Just hoping it doesn't come this way? If you have been paying attention to the ineffectiveness of the Chicago Police Department under its Superintendent, Garry McCarthy, you'll understand today's press release from the Illinois State Rifle Association.
Strong cooperation is needed between law-abiding citizenry and its local law enforcement agencies, whether the municipal police departments or the sheriff's department.
It won't be long before Illinois will be joining the ranks of states that permit properly-licensed mean and women to carry loaded and concealed firearms. It could be that open-carry will be become law in the Land of Lincoln. This will not mean the Wild, Wild West (west of Lake Michigan).
It will mean that law-abiding citizens will no longer be "easy pickin's" for unruly mobs and criminals.
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Yes, the unruly mobs and criminals should be here any moment, right behind the killer bees.
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