Illinois Policy

CHICAGO - The City of Chicago expanded its "first-of-its-kind" lawsuit against Glock to include the gun manufacturer's parent company and two Chicago-area gun retailers.  The lawsuit, filed in March, claimed Glock "unreasonably" put Chicagoans in danger by manufacturing and selling guns that could easily be converted into illegal machine guns with a cheap device known [...]

The McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office is calling out the Illinois Safe-T Act after the Second District Appellate Court overturned a decision by a McHenry County judge who decided to detain a man accused of molesting a child. In an appellate court decision handed down Friday, the Second District Appellate Court reversed an order by [...]

CHICAGO, IL — The former police chief of Riverside, Illinois, Tom Weitzel, revealed in an interview Monday that the criminal gangs and organizations of Chicago are reaping the benefits of the illegal immigration crisis with a recruiting bonanza. The thousands of illegal immigrants flooding in, he said, are allowing them to orchestrate crimes with minimal [...]

MT VERNON, IL— Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Bullard has joined multiple other Sheriffs and prosecutors refusing to enforce the so-called "Protect Illinois Communities Act" which just became effective after being ramrodded through the state legislature and signed into law by the Democrat supermajority and Governor J.B. Pritzker. According to local news outlet KSDK, Bullard told [...]

An Illinois lawmaker has introduced a bill that would prohibit police from pulling over drivers who speed up to 25 mph over the limit and commit other traffic infractions. Illinois State Rep. Justin Slaughter (D-Chicago) filed House Bill 4603 on Monday. Read more...

WBEZ reported that only one percent of individuals holding Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) cards had complied with Illinois’s “assault weapons” ban registration requirement as of January 11, 2024. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) signed the “assault weapons” ban into law on January 10, 2023, after which his office released a statement that said, in part, “The new law also [...]

Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, an outspoken defender of Second Amendment rights, made a fiery response to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to uphold Illinois' assault weapons ban. The federal appeals court on Friday upheld Illinois' state ban on assault-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines in a two-to-one vote by a three-judge [...]

Illinois has its new registration rules for grandfathered “assault weapons” (e.g., semi-automatic rifles) and large capacity magazines. Not everyone who has a FOID card may own a gun, though a large majority of those owning guns likely own standard magazines, which would require registration. With 2,415,481 FOID cards and registration starting on October 1st, 2023, [...]

PHILADELPHIA, PA – In an unsettling twist of irony, a 39-year-old journalist who’d mocked Dilbert creator Scott Adams’ past assertion that a Biden presidency would likely result in increased homicides was reportedly murdered inside of his own home, apparently two days after mocking Adams’ past comments. Read more...