We\u2019ve discussed in this space the recent passage of shall-issue concealed carry in the last holdout state, Illinois. Alas, the victory is not yet locked in stone.
\nThere is some good news, as seen here: http:\/\/personalliberty.com\/2013\/06\/24\/chicagoland-mayor-ditches-bloombergs-gun-control-embraces-concealed-carry\/ Thanks to the multiple blog readers who sent it along. J
\nBut the \u201cantis\u201d don\u2019t give up easily, and some are trying to pass various bans at the municipal level.
\nThe last time Significant Other and I went over the Mississippi River going from Illinois into Missouri, she dug out her Glock and strapped it on as soon as we reached the free side. We couldn\u2019t help but notice that when Huckleberry Finn and Jim crossed the same river to get to freedom, they were going the other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We\u2019ve discussed in this space the recent passage of shall-issue concealed carry in the last holdout state, Illinois. Alas, the victory is not yet locked in stone. There is some good news, as seen here: http:\/\/personalliberty.com\/2013\/06\/24\/chicagoland-mayor-ditches-bloombergs-gun-control-embraces-concealed-carry\/ Thanks to the multiple blog readers who sent it along. J But the \u201cantis\u201d don\u2019t give up easily, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights","8":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}