Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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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.
Seems to me that Chicago tried gun control once before with rather dismal results. Nothing like renewing a tried and failed program once again in true Chicago Illinois tradition.
This law isn’t meant to control guns in Chicago. This law is meant to make you a criminal. They hate you. Look at the freaks in this picture in the tweet below. They are in springfield now advocating for the passage of this bill. Do you think these freaks really care about stopping Chicago gang crime? LOL Heck no. Do they want to throw you, the deplorable, into a reeducation camp? They sure do. And banning your gun is the first step. Throwing you in prison or running you out of the state is the second goal. They hate you.… Read more »
Guns and drugs are the number one seller in the Chitty of Chicago. Laws mean nothing to the criminals and that is all that is left in the Chitty.
Dan Eldridge of Maxons has set up an organization dedicated to fighting this. His website has a place where you can donate and read up on everything. They have press releases and everything else you need to know.
The website is an association for federal firearms licensees in Illinois. It’s at fflil dot org
State Representative Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) said, “I opposed the firearm ban approved by Democrat lawmakers as I believe this bill without a doubt is unconstitutional. This firearm ban chips away at our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and it limits the ability of law-abiding citizens to protect themselves and their families at home.
This law does not chip away at the Second amendment, it outright obliterates it.
This bill comes from the philosophy “when you don’t know what to do, do something!” Not only unconstitutional, this bill will simply vilify law-abiding citizens. “Would a ban on assault rifles actually help to curb the violence? With rifles being a relatively uncommon type of weapon used in homicides in the United States, an assault rifle ban may not make much difference when it comes to the number of murders that occur.” https://www.criminalattorneycolumbus.com/which-weapons-are-most-commonly-used-for-homicides/ How many murders in our country are the result of ‘assault-style’ weapons and how many are the result of handguns and other means? This chart illustrates the… Read more »
The real assault weapons are the people who wrote and supported this law being passed.
I wish that they would stop assaulting my wallet!