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President Joe Biden continued his push for universal background checks Tuesday but did not mention such checks require a gun registry in order to be viable. He directed Attorney General Merrick Garland to move the U.S. as close to a universal background check system as possible without Congressional action.  Breitbart News reported Biden bypassed Congress with [...]

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are pushing the codification of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 23, 2022, NYSRPA v. Bruen decision. The goal is to ensure that Americans’ right to be armed outside the home for self-defense is the law of the land. Read more...

The Anti-Defamation League has a new report titled: “Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2022.” They claim that all the murderers of the 25 people murdered by extremists in 2022 were “right-wingers,” which they describe as white supremacists, anti-government extremists, QAnon extremists, and other right-wing extremists. Their report has been getting extensive uncritical [...]

GLENWOOD, Ill. — Two employees have been charged for allegedly opening fire on a delivery driver at a suburban Popeyes. According to Glenwood police, on Sunday officers responded to a Popeyes, located in the 18200 block of South Halsted, on the report of shots fired. Read more...

A convicted felon and gang member was arrested after investigators found him in possession of guns, suppressors, ammunition and drugs during a warrant in Round Lake Park. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Group (SIG) concluded a long-term investigation on Wednesday into Joshua A. Jackson, 26, of Round Lake Park. Read more...

Prosecutors have filed murder charges against two men who got into a “violent confrontation” and allegedly killed a Highland Park father and business owner at Fort Sheridan Beach in September. Lake County Assistant State’s Attorney Lillian Lewis said that a man, who lives in Highland Park near the Fort Sheridan Beach, called 911 just before [...]

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published data on global arms transfers on Monday that found India remains the world’s largest importer of weapons, reaching a five-year high of 11 percent of all global imports. SIPRI also crowned India the world’s top arms importer in 2022, even after a steep decline over the preceding [...]

A man was stabbed several times Tuesday when trying to get to his car outside a shopping center in Corona, California. When walked at knifepoint into a Planet Fitness, the victim decided to bring his hatchet-wielding captor back down to earth — and gym members proved more than happy to assist. According to the Corona [...]

Police found a 17-year-old boy with a fully automatic gun after arresting him for committing a January shooting outside of a Zion-Benton Township High School basketball game. The Zion Police Department and Zion Fire Rescue Department responded around 9:15 p.m. on January 31 to the school, located at 3901 21st Street in Zion. Read more...

Police say a male friend of a woman has been charged with murder after he allegedly strangled her, leaving her dead for days before a family member found her in Zion. The Zion Police Department and Zion Fire-Rescue Department responded around 11:08 a.m. Monday to the 2200 block of Lewis Avenue. Read more...