For at least 12 years running, the Windy City in Illinois has captured the crown as America’s Murder City with the most homicides. When one couples the “no snitch” culture with the gang culture and add in defunding the police and prosecutors who don’t prosecute, criminals know they can work without consequences. Now, in a … Read more
The do-gooders in Illinois believe that if you hire enough felons to “interrupt” violence, somehow you’ll make the streets safer. Given that Murder City USA has kept that title for 12 years in a row now, one would think that smarter heads would prevail and the state legislature would vote to stop paying millions of … Read more
We loved yesterday’s news about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton going after five businesses or organizations that ban off-duty cops from carrying on their premises, in violation of Texas state law. Kudos to AG Paxton for not only using common sense, but holding noncompliant feet to the fire. Anyone who says that your vote doesn’t … Read more
Guns Save Life, the grassroots gun rights organization that defends the right for people to defend themselves in the Land of Lincoln continues to throw sand in the gears of gun control jihadists in the state at every opportunity. Our latest involves giving away the Springfield Armory M1A Scout Squad in June of this year, … Read more
America’s largest open-air shooting gallery provides countless stories of violence inflicted upon others on a daily basis. The murder and mayhem in Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s crime-free utopia (thanks to strict gun control laws) provides more than enough violent news for HeyJackass to track. While some of these incidents are tragedies, others aren’t so much. … Read more
In an expected move, national gun advocacy groups have taken action to challenge Illinois’ restrictive ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines at the U.S. Supreme Court level. The Colorado-based National Association for Gun Rights and the Nevada-based Firearms Policy Coalition filed petitions on Monday urging the highest court in the land to overturn a … Read more
Miguel Morales was arrested last year for selling drugs and a gun to undercover cops while on his way to work as a Chicago Public Schools “Safe Passage” worker. Morales, despite a sordid criminal history including a murder conviction, somehow picked up a gig as a “Safe Passage” worker with the Chicago Public Schools. I … Read more
Illinois gun control jihadists passed the so-called “Protect Illinois Communities Act” in the dead of night last January. The bill banned all manner of popular self-defense, magazine-fed, semi-automatic firearms, but it provided that existing owners could keep them if they registered them. That registration window closed December 31st with barely a 1% compliance rate. Now, … Read more
FoxNews brought Governor J.B. Pritzker’s inept “leadership” to the national stage, reporting on the mass non-compliance with the measure by Land of Lincoln gun owners. While 29,257 gun license holders registered their self-defense guns for Da Gov, 2.4 million registered… nothing. Now the governor, who has designs on the White House either in 2024 or … Read more
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