(We are pleased to post the following press release from GunFreeKids.org). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Andy Pelosi (914-629-6726), email: andy@gunfreekids.org (June 28, 2010, New York) – Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments. The Court considered the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago, where [...]
Supreme Court Stills Holds that Common Sense Gun Laws Are Constitutional and Can Be Enacted to Save Lives and Protect Communities For Immediate Release Contact: Thom Mannard, Executive Director, ICHV tmannard@ichv.org Scott Vogel, Communications Director, States United to Prevent Gun Violence scott@supgv.org (June 28, 2010, Chicago) – The Supreme Court extended the scope of the [...]
(Photo by David Molnar / The Republican. As his father, Sean Connery snaps a photograph, left, Devin Connery of Lunenburg, fires a Heckler & Koch Universal Machine-Pistol at the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo sponsored by the Westfield Sportsman Club and C.O.P. Firearms and Training on Sunday. According to the Associated Press on May [...]
According to the Chicago Tribune on April 28, 2010: The Illinois Senate on Wednesday sent Gov. Pat Quinn a bill backed by Mayor Richard Daley that would increase penalties for certain crimes involving guns. The proposed change in state law would mandate a sentence of at least one year in prison for a person convicted [...]
The Illinois Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence — a project of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence — held a press conference at Children’s Memorial Hospital on April 12, 2010. We strongly urge you to watch some of the video clips from that press event. IL State Rep. Harry Osterman: Background Checks Save Lives Dr. [...]
According to the Huffington Post on April 14th: Four people–including three children–were fatally shot early Wednesday and two others were critically injured when a family member from out of state showed up at the South Side home and began shooting–reportedly because “Allah” told him to kill his family. About 4:25 a.m., police responded to a [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). For Immediate Release Contact: Thom Mannard (312) 341-0939, cell (847) 997-3020, tmannard@ichv.org ISRA Uses Lobby Day to Press For Dangerous Carrying Concealed Weapons Law That Threatens Public Safety (March 10, 2010, Chicago) – The Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence [...]
See link to the Supreme Court’s transcripts of the oral arguments here.
Oral Arguments to Supreme Court On Chicago’s Handgun Ban Supreme Court Releases Transcripts Of Oral Arguments In McDonald v. City of Chicago. Analysis: Second Amendment Extension Likely. The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed poised to require state and local governments to obey the Second Amendment guarantee of a personal right to a gun, but with [...]
Thom Mannard, Executive Director of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence wrote the following letter to the editor to the Springfield State Journal Register on Feb. 21st. Letter to the Editor The recent unintentional shooting of an 8-year-old Niles girl by her 13-year-old brother only reinforces one of the inherent dangers of having a handgun [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). For Immediate Release Contact: Thom Mannard, (312) 341-0939, tmannard@ichv.org Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence Remembers the Victims, Survivors and Families Affected By Valentine’s Day Shooting Rampage that Killed 5 Students and Wounded 16; Advocates Call for Renewed Effort to [...]
(We are pleased to post the following alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights Column by Daniel Webster Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPH is Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research and Associate Director of the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence at [...]
(We are pleased to post the following op-ed in the Chicago Tribune on Oct. 8th by Ellen Alberding, President of the Joyce Foundation, who supports the Freedom States Alliance and our efforts to prevent gun violence). (Nadashia Thomas, 6, a cousin of Derrion Albert, holds a sign beside a poster of Derrion Albert at Fenger [...]
(We are pleased to post the following news alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Legislative Update August 31, 2009 HB3991 Signed Into Law: Bill Would Revoke FOID Card for those with Order of Protection People in favor of stronger gun control laws in Illinois won a victory in [...]
(We are posting the following action alert from the Illinois Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence). The Illinois Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence (ICPGV) is extremely disappointed to announce that Governor Quinn signed HB 182 – a bill which would allow individuals to carry concealed weapons into other people’s homes – into law yesterday. Gun violence [...]
(We are pleased to post the following alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights by Father Michael Pfleger July 1, 2009 Gun violence has always been an issue, but in the last ten years, I’ve watched it become more of an epidemic. It has grown to a new [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from our Freedom States Alliance affiliate, Ceasefire NJ). For Immediate Release June 26, 2009 Contact: Bryan Miller (856) 371-3038, cfnj@aol.com Ceasefire NJ Applauds Action, Thanks Leadership, Sponsor, Governor, Mayors and City Councils Trenton: The NJ Senate passed Senate bill S-1774, colloquially known as the One Handgun [...]
(We are pleased to post the following joint press release from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence and the Freedom States Alliance). For Immediate Release Contact: Thom Mannard (312) 341-0939 Scott Vogel (312) 243-8980, scott@freedomstatesalliance.org On One-Year Anniversary of Supreme Court Heller Ruling that Stripped D.C. Of Its Handgun Ban, Pro-Gun Groups Want To Flood [...]
According to the Huffington Post on June 24th: Hal Turner, New Jersey’s top white-supremacist internet-radio show hosting lunatic is back in the news today, for pretty much the same reason he was in the news earlier this month: threatening public officials with bodily harm, and subsequently getting arrested for it! This time out, Turner’s calls [...]
‘Little babies die in our community every day,’ grandmother says after 9-year-old Chastity Turner is shot to death. The Chicago Sun-Times reported on June 25th another tragedy that took the life of an innocent girl. Chastity Turner felt unsafe Tuesday in her grandmother’s South Side neighborhood, unnerved by a daytime shooting spree launched by youths [...]
(We are pleased to post the following action alert from the Illinois Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence). House Bill 182, a dangerous bill that will threaten public safety, is now at the Governor’s desk. HB 182 would change Illinois law governing the concealed carrying of handguns and allow a person to carry a concealed handgun [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). For Immediate Release Contact: Thom Mannard (312) 341-0939 Definitive Ruling Holds that Gun Violence Prevention Laws Do Not Violate the Second Amendment; Decision Is Major Setback To Gun Lobby’s Radical Agenda To Eradicate Nation’s Gun [...]
(We are pleased to post the following alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Legislative Update May 27, 2009 As the current legislative session winds down (the last day would be May 31, if it is not extended), there have been new developments on several bills we have been keeping [...]
(We are pleased to post the following alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights: Guest Column by Elliot Fineman April 1st, 2009 My active involvement in gun control issues began on the morning of December 31, 2006. A policewoman came to the door and wanted to talk to me. [...]
It is hard not to become deeply cynical and suspicious when the legislative director of a union, who is also the key lobbyist for the gun lobby, gives $3,000 to an African-American state representative who votes “present” — in effect, opposing a crucial bill to require a common sense background check on all handgun sales. [...]
If you really cared about the safety of your family and loved ones, then one of the most important steps would be to “choose” not to own a firearm. The possession of a gun is more like a ticking time bomb, waiting for a tragedy to occur. According to the Chicago Tribune on Mar. 17th: [...]
Our partners at the Illinois Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence (ICPGV) and the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence (ICHV) are leading efforts to require background checks on private handgun sales, a common sense and well-supported provision to keep deadly weapons out of the wrong hands, such as drug dealers, gang members, domestic abusers, and gun [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, the pro-gun lobby is continuing to push its extreme agenda. Let us ask you a handful of questions. Would you be willing to: Sip hot chocolate with your toddler at Starbucks while a fellow patron openly displays a gun at the table next to you? Attend a church service with [...]
We have great news to report in Illinois as the state senate rejected the gun lobby’s dangerous legislation to permit carrying hidden and loaded guns in public, such as child day care centers, hospitals, shopping malls, parks, and municipal buildings among others. According to the Huffington Post on Mar. 11th: A committee of the Illinois [...]
The Illinois Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence has released the results for a new statewide bipartisan poll of Illinois voters on gun violence prevention. The survey results show an overwhelming majority of Illinois voters strongly support common sense gun laws such as background checks for private gun sales and requiring gun owners to report lost [...]
The University of Chicago Crime Lab has issued a new report, “Gun Violence Among School-Age Youth in Chicago.” The Chicago Tribune, March 3, 20009, reports: The social costs of gun violence in Chicago total about $2.5 billion each year, according to a report released Tuesday by an academic group formed to research effective ways to [...]
(We are pleased to post the following alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Legislative Update February 13, 2009 Focus on the New Legislative Session As we focus once again on a legislative session in Springfield, we need to understand right off the bat what are likely to be the [...]
The Illinois Sheriff’s Association should know better than to listen to the radical agenda of the gun lobby when it comes to carrying concealed weapons. In a desperate attempt to peel off law enforcement officials into supporting a dangerous bill to permit the carrying of hidden and loaded guns into child daycare centers, hospitals, nursing [...]
(We are pleased to post the following alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights By Chief Russell Laine I have been in law enforcement since 1976 and police chief in Algonquin since 1985. Last November, I became president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). Our [...]
(We are pleased to post the following edited guest column from Michael Allen, the pastor of Uptown Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois. Pastor Allen’s column was originally posted on Freedom States Alliance’s affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights Column By Pastor Michael Allen Gun violence is a terrible symptom of what troubles [...]
According to the Chicago Tribune on Jan. 14th, posted at 12:20 PM Central: Two children suffered minor injuries from shattered glass this morning after a man opened fire on their school bus on the Near Southwest Side. The gunman fired at the bus near Cermak Road and Wolcott Avenue about 11:15 a.m., authorities said. Chicago [...]
(We are pleased to post the following alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights: Looking Ahead to 2009 Federal Issues On a legislative level, we know that for the last eight years, the gun lobby has basically controlled the federal agenda. This is not surprising. After all, the [...]
On Dec. 17th, at the State of Illinois Building, noted gun violence prevention activist Father Michael Pfleger, organized a large rally to call for stronger gun laws, and to remember the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students who have been killed by guns. Also in attendance was Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis and Minister Louis Farrakhan [...]
(We are pleased to post the following action alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). The Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence Invites You To an Important Event Where: State of Illinois Building, 100 W. Randolph When: Wednesday December 17, 2008 at 12 noon (Screen shot of Chicago ABC News report [...]
Chicago WBBM news radio reported on Nov. 19th that the village of Winnetka chose to remove its handgun ban for fear of exorbitant court and legal costs trying to battle the gun lobby. The suit was brought by gun proponents to challenge the local ordinance, claiming it violated residents’ “Second Amendment rights” after the Supreme [...]
(We are pleased to post the following alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence. As noted before, GunGuys.com does not endorse candidates for office). ICHV Insights Nov. 14th, 2008 By Thom Mannard Gun control in the United States looks a little different today than it did before the November 4 [...]
(We are pleased to post the following guest column from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights Column by Jennifer Bishop, National Program Director for Victims and Survivors for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. My sister Nancy was 25 and my brother-in-law Richard was 28. Nancy was pregnant [...]
(We are pleased to post the following guest column from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Guest Column by Susan D. Wright, Esq. Too many young people living in the city of Chicago are afraid for their lives. When working with youth, I ask them what they think we can [...]
An article from the Beacon News in the Chicago suburbs on Oct. 20th reported that 13 Illinois counties will hold non-binding voter referendums on election day, Nov. 4th, on whether residents should be permitted to carry deadly and hidden handguns in public places, such as child daycare centers, hospitals, shopping malls, nursing homes, sporting events, [...]
(GunGuys.com does not endorse any candidate for elected office). The Brady Campaign is targeting Illinois State Rep. Dennis Reboletti (R-46th) who represents DuPage County, a suburban enclave of Chicago, for his vote against HB 758, a bill to require background checks on all handgun sales to keep deadly weapons out of the hands of gang [...]
(We are pleased to post Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan’s remarks from the ICHV Lincoln Awards luncheon). I wish we could stand here today and declare victory over gun violence. I would love to salute elected officials across the State of Illinois for having the political courage to pass common sense gun laws that [...]
The Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence (ICHV) honored Chicago Public Schools CEO, Arne Duncan, with the prestigious Abraham Lincoln Award at its 26th annual awards banquet. However, in light of yet another shooting tragedy where a Chicago Public Schools student, Kiyanna Salter, 17, was killed by stray gunfire on a CTA bus on Sunday, Oct. [...]
Random gunfire claimed the life of yet another Chicago teenager, Kiyanna Salter, 17, in a horrific tragedy. According to Chicago’s CBS news station, WBBM on Oct. 6th: CHICAGO (CBS) ― A teenage girl was shot and killed Sunday night while riding a CTA bus traveling through the South Side’s Grand Crossing neighborhood. On Monday morning, [...]
(We are posting the following obituary from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, about our dear friend, Mike Robbins who died on Sept. 13th. Mike was a remarkable advocate, who is sorely missed by all of us). Mike Robbins, a Vietnam veteran who later became a police officer and was shot in the line of [...]
According to the Chicago Tribune on Sept. 23rd: The sister of Bears quarterback Rex Grossman was robbed at gunpoint Friday in her Lincoln Park garage, a source said Monday. The woman was backing her sport-utility vehicle into her garage in the 2000 block of North Racine Avenue about 11:30 a.m. when the robber followed her [...]
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