Right to Bear Arms

Cook County gun sales spike during COVID-19 pandemic, data shows

by Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel, Ross Weidner and Jonathan Fagg
ABC 7 News in Chicago

“We’re tracking that number, maybe a little bit ahead of that number, in terms of growth. It’s doesn’t surprise me at all. We’ve had in the last 12 months times of great uncertainty and in uncertain times reasonable people will take measures to protect themselves and their families,” said Dan Eldridge, the owner of Maxon Shooter’s Supplies & Indoor Gun Range in Des Plaines according to ABC7 Eyewitness News in Chicago.  

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Dwarfing all other states, FBI data show Illinois had 4.6 million background checks for guns in first seven months

by Greg Bishop
The Center Square

Illinois leads the nation in illegal gun crime so, naturally law-abiding citizens find the greatest need to prepare to defend themselves.  Thus, the state leads the way in legal firearm checks.

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Thomas, Kavanaugh lament ‘decade-long failure to protect the Second Amendment’

by Tyler Olson
Fox News

“Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanagh on Monday admonished their fellow justices for letting Second Amendment cases languish in the lower courts in a dissent to the tribunal’s decision not to take up a gun rights case.  The last major Supreme Court cases to decide gun rights issues were McDonald v. Chicago and D.C. v. Heller, both of which came out more than a decade ago,” according to Fox News.

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Gun range can open despite Virginia governor’s executive order, judge rules

by Matthew Barakat
The Washington Times

“An order issued by Lynchburg Circuit Judge F. Patrick Yeatts says federal and state protections on the right to bear arms outweigh any emergency authority held by Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam to order the gun range closed,” according to The Washington Times.

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Number of background check requests for gun transactions breaks records in March as coronavirus lockdown took effect

by Dan Petrella
Chicago Tribune

As virus adds to social uncertainty, Illinoisans increasingly turn to firearms for security.  Democrat Gov. Pritzker admits, “We wanted to make sure that people had the ability to protect themselves if they needed to,” according to the Chicago Tribune.

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