Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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"Because ghost guns are cheaper and easier to acquire than conventional firearms, they are more accessible to young people," Gov. JB Pritzker's office said in a release. Already this month, two teens in Illinois have been charged with possession of ghost guns, one of which was brought to a high school. Illinois State Police reported working on 28 "ghost gun" cases so far this month.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Pritzker Blames ‘Ghost’ Guns For The Crime Crisis Created By Democrats’ Soft On Crime Policies
A new law to fight not the majority of the gun related (gang related) crime in the state. JB the Hutt goes after gun hobbyists instead. Another useless, do-nothing law from our useless, do-nothing state legislature, signed by our utterly feckless governor, and will be ignored by the completely worthless Kim Foxx.
These people must go, or the state resident taxpayers will.
Federal laws permits individuals to build firearms for personal use. After zip guns, the most easily constructed firearms out of scrap metal are submachine guns. These homemade arms
are a big problem for the police in Brazil and Ireland. Illinois has many home and small industrial machine shops and ammo can be purchased without D in adjacent states. Gun
control by government edict is dead!