In pursuit of the ever-elusive legally owned Chicago-bound handgun, I found myself in a western suburb this weekend going through the NRA Basic Pistol course. I cannot recommend this class highly enough to someone with little practical experience in shooting or weapons safety. The class goes into great detail in examining the constituent parts of [...]
Mick Dumke at the Chicago Reader posted a link to the final version of the Chicago gun ordinance as passed by the full City Council today, so I’ve been reading through it to see just how good/bad it is. You can find a PDF copy of the “Responsible Gun Ownership Ordinance” here. Some points of [...]
I’m glad to break my silence during the week of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in McDonald v. Chicago to incorporate the protections of the 2nd Amendment to cities and states, and to overturn the Chicago handgun ban. While I wish that city residents and government officials had recognized the idiocy of this policy and [...]
Thursday, February 25, 2010
It’s been nearly a year since I last wrote in this blog, and enough changes have happened in the interim (a cross-city move, major changes in responsibility at my job, economic upheaval, a serious reassessment of some of my political views) that I thought it best to start afresh with my previous content condemned to [...]