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Illinois State Rep. Blaine Wilhour (R) responded to Gov. JB Pritzker’s signing of a ban on commonly owned semiautomatic weapons by stating, “We will not comply.” Breitbart News reported that Pritzker signed the ban Tuesday night. The ban allows current owners of banned firearms to keep them, but requires to register them with the Illinois [...]

The sheriff’s Special Investigations Group arrested an alleged drug dealer during a search warrant in Winthrop Harbor where detectives found drugs and a gun, authorities said. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Group concluded a narcotics investigation on Wednesday. Read more...

A man has been charged with the murder of his 47-year-old cousin after deputies responding to a well-being check found the woman’s body in a wheelbarrow in Wadsworth. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded around 6:20 p.m. Wednesday to the 13100 block of West Shenandoah Trail in Wadsworth for a check on well-being call. Read [...]

A judge ordered a Zion man held on a $500,000 bond after prosecutors said the man broke into a Beach Park home while armed with two fully loaded guns and a knife. Arturo Arroyo, 35, of Zion, was charged with aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon, criminal trespass to property, criminal damage to property and [...]

Officers arrested a man after he allegedly drove the wrong way while drunk and was found in possession of a defaced loaded gun in Gurnee, prosecutors said. Devontae K. Domino, 30, of Gurnee, was charged with possession of a defaced firearm, two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, two counts of driving under [...]

Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying suspects who have been spray painting the word “CRIP” on houses, vehicles and street signs in Harvard since last month. The Harvard Police Department released surveillance images of one of the suspects Wednesday. Read more...

Prosecutors have approved charges against a second alleged shooter in the shootout at a Beach Park gas station that left one of the gunmen along with a 21-year-old man hospitalized Sunday. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded around 6:35 a.m. Sunday to the Citgo gas station, 39039 Lewis Avenue in Beach Park, for a report [...]

A judge ordered a man held without bond after prosecutors said he shot two men, one of which later died, in Huntley during a confrontation over a woman and then fled the state. Lewis C. McCracken, 27, of the 200 block of Villa Street in Elgin, was charged in July with four counts of attempted [...]

A Wisconsin man was sentenced to five years in prison for throwing a brick at the head of a Kenosha Police officer during the riots following the Jacob Blake shooting. Ashton Howard, 29, knocked the officer unconscious and sent him to the hospital, prosecutors said, and was seen on video after the attack shouting, "I [...]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been caught red-handed deleting defensive-gun-use statistics from its website. In a story broken by Stephen Gutowski at The Reload, a collection of emails accessed through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request showed that gun-control activists worked closely, both face to face and via email, with [...]