Second City Cop

Eight-year-old shooter:

• A 7-year-old boy was shot inside a Humboldt Park residence Thursday evening after another child found a firearm inside the home, Chicago police said.

  The shooting occurred in the 3200 block of West Division Street at approximately 7:04 p.m. According to police and radio traffic, an 8-year-old boy located a gun inside a second-floor apartment. The child then discharged the weapon, striking the 7-year-old boy in the arm, according to CPD.

  Cops applied a tourniquet to the child’s arm before the Chicago Fire Department transported him to Stroger Hospital, where he was listed in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the left bicep.

  Police recovered a firearm from a bedroom shelf in the apartment. No one was taken into custody.

Okay, technically not a "shooter" but a curious kid.

Turns out, this might be a test case for a new Illinois Law:

• The shooting happened on the same day a new gun storage law went into effect in Illinois. The legislation aims to make it harder for something like this to happen.

This is one of those laws designed to punish after the fact, rather than prevent anything, because it can't actually protect anyone - there is no enforcement mechanism for warrantless searches of homes. But upon conviction, you can bet that this offender will never be allowed to own a gun ever again.

The fine is $10,000, but once politicians see who the offenders are, we'll see if it's ever actually enforced. 

Labels: gun issues

We just like posting these when they occur:

• A man was fatally shot after attempting to break into an apartment Saturday morning in East Garfield Park.

  The man, 33, attempted to break into an apartment with multiple people inside around 7 a.m. in the 3400 block of West Monroe Street when a woman opened fire, according to Chicago police.

  The woman, 28, shot the man twice, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai, where he was pronounced dead, police said. His name hasn’t been released.

  Police said the woman has a valid conceal and carry license and was being questioned.

Nothing like a "feel-good" story during the weekend.

Labels: gun issues

The last budget numbers we saw, ATF was losing around 18-to-20 percent of it's funding. After crap like this, it should be 100%: 

• The millions of law-abiding Americans who have chosen to carry a concealed firearm are putting “everyone involved at risk,” the ATF announced this week in a tweet on X. 

  “Take a look into our world. This is a scenario @ATFWasington frequently faces when combatting violent crime and maintaining public safety. Many people attempt to conceal firearms on their person or belongings which puts everyone involved at risk. #MakeDCSafeAgain #ATF,” the ATF tweeted on X. 

Per capita, far more people die after coming into contact with the ATF than a Concealed Carrier. 

The ATF is one of the two federal agencies with definite fascist leanings, the other being the fbi. After Waco and Arkansas, they should have been shut down immediately, and the past four years under the drooling vegetable putting legit firearm licensees out of business was beyond the pale.

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Movement from the DoJ setting the stage for Illinois citizens to enjoy their Second Amendment Rights in the near future.

First is a video from our old friend Todd Vandermyde over at Freedom's Steel:

And second is a step-by-step breakdown of the Amicus brief from Washington Gun Law's William Kirk:

This is quite a significant development as the DoJ seldom inserts itself into cases at the Circuit level, preferring to wait for the US Supreme Court to step in....unless the case is so egregious in nature that immediate action is required to safeguard an enumerated Right.

Should be quite the battle. 

Labels: gun issues

This will be an interesting investigation:

• A 14-year-old boy shot and critically injured a man who pulled a knife on a woman during a domestic altercation in Hyde Park last night, Chicago police said.

  CPD said a man and a woman, both 33, were engaged in a domestic inside a home in the 4800 block of South Drexel when the man armed himself with a knife around 11:02 p.m.

  Upon seeing the knife, the boy “produced a handgun and fired” at the man, according to a police statement. The man suffered a gunshot wound that entered his shoulder and exited near his armpit, leaving him in critical condition.

Fourteen-year-olds can't own a gun.

You don't need an FOID card to have a gun in your house.

If the Laws about securing a weapon in the house had been followed, we'd be reading about at least one homicide, maybe more.

We'll just be the first to say it:

• Nice shot kid. Nice shot.

That is all.

Labels: gun issues

Looks like we won't be getting a wholesale disbanding of the fbi

• A report from CNN indicates FBI director Kash Patel — who is also ATF acting director — plans to cut “as many as 1,000 ATF agents” and move them to the FBI.

  This will represent a cut of roughly one third of the ATF’s current agents.

The thousand "agents" will be tasked with assisting in securing the border. As this isn't something most of them signed up for, we expect a sizeable number of resignations to follow, whereupon they can start picking all the vegetables and produce that the illegal aliens used to harvest.

The atf exists solely to infringe on Second Amendment Rights, sio this is a good thing.

Additionally, something else is good on the horizon:

• The House Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), is planning to hold a legislative markup on March 25, 2025 at 10 am EST. The committee will be considering several bills during this markup, two of which are of crucial importance to law-abiding gun owners. A committee markup is often a critical step in advancing legislation to the floor of the U.S. House for passage.

  The first piece of legislation up for consideration, and the NRA’s top priority, is H.R. 38, the “Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act” introduced by Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC). This bipartisan legislation would provide nationwide reciprocity for concealed carry license holders and for residents of Constitutional Carry states. This legislation currently has 177 cosponsors in the U.S. House.

When you drive a car, your license is considered good in all of the United States. The privilege of operating a car doesn't stop when you leave home. So carrying a firearm - an enumerated Right in the Constitution - shouldn't stop at a state border either.

If and when this is properly enshrined in Law, it'll get rid of quite a bit of the crap Fata$$ has been doing to undermine our ability to buy a firearm.

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A bunch of comments and almost zero media coverage of a court case that purportedly declares the FOID unconstitutional. As far as we can tell, this finding - the second or third such finding by this particular court - isn't quite as straightforward as it seems. The Court said that you don't need an FOID card in order to possess a firearm within your home.

The Court did however, find the attached fee completely unconstitutional:

• A White County Illinois judge has found the state’s Firearms Owner’s ID card unconstitutional when enforced against someone possessing their firearms in their home.

  The case Illinois vs. Vivian Brown stems from a 2017 case where Brown separated from her husband. She possessed a single-shot .22 rifle in her home. Her husband filed a complaint against her alleging she fired the rifle inside the home. Police found the rifle had not been fired, but the state’s attorney charged her with possessing a firearm without a FOID card.

  “After analyzing all the evidence in this matter, this Court finds that the Defendant’s activity of possessing a firearm within the confines of her home is an act protected by the Second Amendment,” wrote White County Resident Circuit Judge T. Scott Webb. “Additionally, there are no historical analogues to the FOID Act as required in Bruen.”

  The judge further said in his ruling Monday, “the Court finds that any fee associated with exercising the core fundamental Constitutional right of armed self-defense within the confines of one’s home violates the Second Amendment.”

As the court cases slowly erode the foundation of the FOID Act, the entire thing should eventually be found unconstitutional and Illinois could rejoin America as founded.

Labels: gun issues

An odd idea:

• Cook County’s new state’s attorney is proposing a new law that would help people charged with illegally possessing firearms get a license so they can own the weapons legally. Eileen Burke’s office revealed the idea on Friday.

  First-time gun offenders charged with a low-level firearms violation could “get into compliance with the law” if they complete a diversion program under the proposal, according to the announcement. Anyone accused of possessing machine guns, an increasingly common situation in Chicago, would not be eligible.

So instead of forever forfeiting the Right to legally own a gun upon conviction, the CCSA would have an education class and walk people through the process to obtain an FOID card? Will they be returning the seized firearm that resulted in charges or are they making people (and folks) buy another one through lawful channels to collect tax revenue and another off-the-books registry? 

And does this have anything to do with the second or third recent loss regarding the FOID card

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Liberal heads will be exploding....figuratively of course:

• A U.S. District Court in Mississippi dismissed a machine gun possession charge, citing it didn't jibe with American history and tradition regarding the right to keep and bear arms. 

  The ruling came this week in the case of the U.S. vs Justin Bryce Brown, with Brown challenging his machine gun possession charge. As he had never been previously convicted of a felony, he argued that the Second Amendment protected him from criminal prosecution under the federal government's statutes. U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves, a 2010 appointment to the federal bench by President Obama, agreed. 

  Citing the 2022 Bruen standard of a gun law being "consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation," Reeves dismissed the charge against Brown. 

  A similar unregistered machine gun possession case, that of Tamori Morgan – which was similarly tossed by a federal court in Kansas last August – though an outlier that is under further appeal by the Justice Department, was also referenced by Reeves in his decision on Brown, saying, "But outliers can nevertheless be instructive and correct, so long as they are faithful applications of the law."

That's two cases in short order restoring Rights long suppressed by democrats, commies and fascists, this time by a Sparklefart-appointed judge who actually seems to understand what the Supreme Court ruled in Bruen. Who would have expected that?

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When we last bought a gun, we remember filling out the Form 4473, that piece of paper that Hunter Biden lied on. And there was this question:

• Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance? Warning: The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized for medicinal or recreational purposes in the state where you reside.

So what's up with this?

• A concealed carry holder shot an armed man during a dispute Monday night in South Shore on the South Side, according to Chicago police.

  A 30-year-old man was standing outside in the 7200 block of South South Shore Drive around 9 p.m. when he began arguing with someone inside a vehicle, police said.

  The two began fighting and the concealed carry holder noticed the other man had a gun, police said. The 30-year-old then opened fire, striking the man once in the chest.

Oh wait, that's the Slum Times article. 

Here's the better story from CWB blog:

• A concealed carry holder shot a man during an altercation on the South Side last night and told police it all started when his weed dealer pulled a gun on him. The alleged dealer remains hospitalized in police custody.

  [...] According to information from the scene, the concealed carry holder told police he was trying to buy some pot from the guy in the car when the dealer pulled a gun on him.

The Slum Times, which never misses an opportunity to bash gun owners, completely hides the fact that someone must have lied on a Federal Form (felony!) to buy a firearm.

Labels: gun issues

Who needs to follow Court orders? Not Cook County it seems:

• Cook County, Illinois, home of the nation’s largest open-air shooting gallery, otherwise known as Chicago, has a long and storied history of crime, corruption, and Second Amendment infringement. And today, between the gang members and the politicians who support them in an unholy alliance, that disregard for the rule of law and enumerated civil rights continues.

  The latest involves Cook County’s ordinance establishing targeted taxes on the exercise of the right to keep and bear arms – specifically guns and ammo. Guns Save Life, an aggressive gun rights organization in Illinois known for its “in your face” activism, filed a lawsuit challenging the gun and ammo tax shortly after it was enacted in 2015. That case went all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court which ruled in 2021 that the tax ordinance was unconstitutional. The Illinois Supremes ordered the trial court to enter a summary judgement in favor of Guns Save Life.

  Cook County then amended their ordinance and has been slow-walking the legal process with endless filings ever since. At long last, about a week ago, a Cook County trial court judge struck down the ordinance, again at the direction of the Illinois Supreme Court. It was a simple two-page order.

  Even after losing in the state’s highest court, Cook County has made it clear to the plaintiffs of the case, Guns Save Life, that they have no intention of ending its illegal collection of taxes on every gun sold in the county along with the ammo to feed them.
  

The lawyers over at Guns Save Life aren't morons though, and they've devised a brilliant strategy that will end up with Cook County taxpayers financing their lawsuits against dozens of other jurisdictions:

• Ultimately, if Cook County wants to continue to act like petulant children as a result of their loss, this case could end up in front of the US Supreme Court. If that happens and SCOTUS rules our way on the Second Amendment count within the suit, that could mean an end of gun and ammo surtaxes nationwide.

And court costs will then be assessed against the losing side, similar to how Shortshanks ended up cutting a check to the NRA for hundreds of thousands of dollars many years ago.

Labels: gun issues

Washington Gun Law covers another crooked Illinois effort to further restrict gun rights and it follows the same pattern as a few other f@#$ed up legislative actions:

This is another one of those instances (like the "Protect Illinois Communities Act) where a bill about something else (for PICA, it was insurance regulations....for this it's fire hydrants) goes through committee, and in the dead of night, all language is stripped from the bill leaving a shell in name only, which is then filled with anti-gun legislation and passed out of committee without public input or debate. 

Lawmakers then pass the "insurance" or "hydrant" bill overnight or over the weekend in the lame-duck session and ::poof!:: your Constitutional Rights disappear. The gerrymandered dem super-majority then doesn't have to answer to anyone, ever.

Washington Gun Law explains it far better than we do, so go watch the nine-minute video.

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This would be freaking awesome:

• When federal officials take action of any kind, questions about the relative wisdom of said action should come second.

  Indeed, a more fundamental question precedes it: Namely, where did the federal government get the power in the first place?

  On Tuesday, according to The Washington Times, Republican Reps. Eric Burlison of Missouri and Lauren Boebert of Colorado introduced legislation that would abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Times also reported that Burlison will introduce legislation that would repeal the 1934 National Firearms Act, which, though much amended, served as the basis for a 1986 federal ban on the possession of most machine guns by private citizens.

We despise the fbi with a passion. 

We loathe the atf.

If both disappeared tomorrow, the country would be far better off.

Labels: gun issues, national politics

School shooting in Wisconsin, lame stream media claiming it's a female teen shooter.

Hint: It's not.

But the anti-gun people are out in force. Instead of pointing out we protect our politicians and money in the banks with armed guards, they demand everyone give up the easiest means of self-defense.

How many schools could we protect if Conehead didn't have one-hundred-forty officers watch his dumb ass? Rahm and Shortshanks had barely twenty-five (two shifts of 12 with a sergeant in charge).

Oh wait, the CTU wanted officers out of schools.

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Citizen wins again:

• A food vendor licensed to carry a concealed firearm shot and killed a man who tried to rob him on the West Side on Friday evening, Chicago police said.

  The vendor was working in the 300 block of South Central when a gunman approached him around 8:50 p.m. Police said a struggle ensued, and that quickly developed into a shootout between the robber and concealed carry holder.

  The would-be robber, who police said was about 30 years old, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at Mt. Sinai Hospital. His 35-year-old victim was in good condition with a gunshot wound to the right arm.

Gotta love the happy ending.

Anyone have the year's totals for legit self-defense shootings? HeyJackass.com maybe?

Labels: crime, gun issues

Tourists might actually return to Chicago....and instead of being victims, might start assisting drive down crime rates:

• In a powerful statement over the weekend, President-Elect Donald Trump reaffirmed his commitment to protecting the Second Amendment by announcing his push for national concealed carry reciprocity.

  This proposal would mean that concealed carry permits issued in any one state would be recognized in all 50 states, allowing gun owners to travel without worrying about crossing state lines with their legally owned firearms.

A driver's license issued by a state is valid in all fifty states - and driving is a privilege, not a Right.

So a CCL - a Right listed in and protected by the Constitution - ought to be valid in all fifty states. 

Illinois recognizes exactly ZERO other CCL permits from any other state. If Trump really wants to f#$% with democrats in Illinois, California and New York, this would be a great start.

We'd have to arrange visits to the morgue to look at the surprised faces on all the corpses that would start rolling in after the first week or three of National Reciprocity.

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But only on paper:

• A federal judge in East St. Louis on Friday struck down Illinois' assault weapons ban on the grounds that it violates the Second and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution and issued an order barring the state from enforcing it.

  That order, however, was stayed for 30 days, and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed an appeal Friday night.

  In a 168-page opinion released Friday afternoon, Judge Stephen McGlynn sided with plaintiffs in the case who argued the assault-style weapons banned under the law are commonly used for legal purposes such as self-defense.

Here's our favorite gun lawyer explaining the decision, good and bad, so it's simple to understand,

Illinois is going to lose this one, but it's going to take another year or more to finish it. It's going to cost untold amounts of time and taxpayer money to finance this losing case.

Meanwhile, there is no plan to figure out the $100 BILLION debt currently on the books against Illinois and Fata$$ is picking a fight with Trump already over the upcoming deportations of illegals - which are costing Illinois taxpayers further billions.

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Expect more of these as manpower dwindles and more people realize that they are responsible for their own safety and the safety of family and friends:

• A concealed carry holder intervened in an argument between two people and fatally shot one of them Friday afternoon in the Washington Park neighborhood.

  About noon, a 26-year-old man was arguing with a woman he knew near a sidewalk in the 300 block of East 56th Street, Chicago police said.

  The man with a concealed carry license, 23, was driving by when he saw the two arguing, according to police. He stopped his car and intervened when he saw the 26-year-old man brandish a gun, police said.

  The 23-year-old retrieved a gun from his car and fired shots, striking the 26-year-old in his chest, police said.

  The still-unidentified victim was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

We'd really like to see someone start a program where members could send CCL holders a free box of ammo and maybe a gift certificate to a shooting range for every successful and legal shoot that eliminates an asshole.

Labels: gun issues, shooting

These cops and their supervisor from Normal, IL appear to have pretty much forfeited any sort of qualified immunity they think they might have been entitled to:

The Legislature wrote that qualified immunity doesn't cover willful and wanton disregard for the law....and the Court found that there is enough willfull-ness and wanton-ness within the accusations to allow this to proceed to trial. There will be a "listing of assets" very shortly.

Don't get trick-bagged by ignorance of the law, nor by supervisory ignorance of the law.

Labels: gun issues

Don't be caught on the wrong side of this bull$hit:

• As San Francisco's district attorney, Kamala Harris told legal gun owners in her community that authorities could "walk into" their homes to inspect whether they were storing their firearms properly under a new law she helped draft.

  "We're going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs," Harris told a group of reporters in May 2007.

  The remarks came during a press conference introducing legislation that Harris helped draft, which sought to impose penalties for gun owners who fail to store their firearms properly at home.

  The bill, which at the time had just been introduced to the city's board of supervisors, was ultimately signed into law a few months later by then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. It was bundled with other gun control provisions, including a new requirement for legal gun distributors to submit an inventory to the chief of police every six months, and a ban on possessing guns – even legally – in public housing.

This is still the law in San Francisco, and Newsom is waiting in the wings for (A) a spot in the Kackler's administration or (B) his shot to run in four-to-eight years.

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