ISRA Thursday Bulletin - March 29, 2018

ISRA Thursday Bulletin - March 29, 2018

Executive Directors Message If you watched the anti-gun demonstrations last weekend you may have noticed similarities with the Black Lives Matter and the Antifa demonstrations.  That is because they are related.  What we are seeing is a framework which has been in place for some time.  This framework is staffed by organizers and professional agitators designed to organize people to protests.  Professional agitators are in the background but they are the muscle.  They take advantage of naive people, using emotion, misrepresentation of facts and groupthink; that doesn’t matter because naive people vote too.  This is all funded by millionaires and billionaires with a political agenda that is designed to fractionalize and divide this nation by tearing away at our traditions, core beliefs and attack the Constitution of the United States.  We are facing the radical left; they are vicious and are capable of anything.  Their target is you, the individual gun owner, and the Second Amendment. These tactics are not new.  They have been used by left wing groups, whose numbers are small, but have been successful in overtaking the majority and seizing power in many countries around the world.  One of their goals is to take firearms away from all of the citizens, but not themselves. These are troubling times. All firearm owners need to stick together.  Recently, we have seen some firearm owners willing to sell out their fellow firearm owners so they can keep their firearms; this is known as appeasing the alligator. Translated, this means you feed to the alligator all your friends and neighbors in order to keep the alligator happy.  In the end, that only means you will be the last one eaten but, you will be eaten, never the less. There are some gun owners who think “they will never take my gun.”  The signs these people carry betray their true intentions.  Signs like “Yes, we are here to take your guns” and “Ok, we will pry it from your cold dead hands.”  There is no special dispensation for target shooters, hunters, collectors, those interested in self-defense, or anyone else - no exceptions. On Tuesday, March 27, 2018, the New York Times carried an op-ed written by Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment.  This is another sure sign of where the American Leftists want to go.  Stevens has pulled the mask off of the American Left and we can now see clearly what and who they are and where they want to go.  Of course, the left is denying everything.  Remember, what is unthinkable today can become law tomorrow. Think for a moment: much of the rights delineated in the United States Constitution are worthless without the Second Amendment.  I believe some of the millionaires and billionaires envision a cabal between themselves, a bureaucrat laden United States government and the left wing media.  Individual freedom will be toast.  An armed free people stand in their way.  I know, I am not supposed to think such thoughts. The number of FOID card holders and Concealed Carry Licensees increases every day.  As of a week ago, there are about 2,276,586 FOID card holders and 285,900 Concealed Carry Licensees in Illinois.  That means Illinois gun owners will go through 922,494,960 or more background checks this year.  The crime rate among legal gun owners is so low it can’t be statistically measured. The NRA has announced the first ever National F-Class Smallbore (.22LR) Championships, to be held in conjunction with the other Smallbore Championships, in Bristol Indiana.  F-Class Smallbore is an up and coming competition for those who love precision shooting.  F-Class Smallbore has been a part of the ISRA Thursday Night Smallbore League for the past two years.  If you are interested, come out and join the ISRA Smallbore League.  The league starts on May 17th! You say you support the Second Amendment; prove it by joining the ISRA. Thanks for being a member. Upcoming Events: ISRA Calendar For more information, visit www.isra.org Illinois Gun Owner Lobby Day (IGOLD) is April 25th! Saturday, March 31, 2018 Special Range Work Day The Well Armed Woman Sunday, April 1, 2018 Black Powder League Wednesday, April 4, 2018 ISRA Wednesday Night Air Gun League ISRA 10 Meter International Air Gun League Saturday, April 7, 2018 Range Work Day Introduction to Bullseye Sunday, April 8, 2018 Joe Brown Highpower League Homeland Security Active Shooter Course Illinois Gun & Trade Shows Rock Island Gun Show Rock Island, IL – QCCA Expo Center Dates: April 7 & 8, 2018 Hours: Saturday: 8:00am – 4:00pm              Sunday: 8:00am – 2:00pm Admission: $7.00 McHenry County Gun Show Woodstock, IL – McHenry County Fairgrounds Date: April 8, 2018 Hours: Sunday: 8:00am – 1:00pm Admission: $5.00 Knoxville Gun Show Knoxville, IL – Knoxville Fairgrounds Dates: April 14 & 15, 2018 Hours: Saturday: 9:00am – 5:00pm              Sunday: 9:00am – 3:00pm Admission: $5.00 Kane County Sportsman’s Show St Charles, IL – Kane County Fairgrounds Date: April 15, 2018 Hours: Sunday: 7:30am – 1:30pm Admission: $5.00 Kankakee Gun Show Kankakee, IL – Kankakee County Fairgrounds Dates: April 21 & 22, 2018 Hours: Saturday: 8:00am – 4:00pm              Sunday: 8:00am – 2:00pm Admission: $6.00 Crown Point Gun Show Crown Point, IN – Lake County Fairgrounds Dates: April 21 & 22, 2018 Hours: Saturday: 9:00am – 5:00pm              Sunday: 9:00am – 3:00pm Admission: $5.00 Pine Tree Pistol Club Gun Show Loves Park, IL – Forest Hills Lodge Date: April 22, 2018 Hours: Sunday: 8:00am – 3:00pm Admission: $5.00 National Civil War Show & Sale Wheaton, IL – DuPage County Fairgrounds Date: April 28, 2018 Hours: Saturday: 9:00am – 4:00pm Admission: $9.00 Collector Arms Dealers Association Gun Show Wheaton, IL – DuPage County Fairgrounds Date: April 28, 2018 Hours: Saturday: 9:00am – 4:00pm Admission: $9.00 Sandwich Gun Show Sandwich, IL – Sandwich Fairgrounds Dates: April 28 & 29, 2018 Hours: Saturday: 8:00am – 4:00pm              Sunday: 8:00am – 2:00pm Admission: $6.00 PVSA Sportman & Gun Show Wheaton, IL – DuPage County Fairgrounds Date: April 29, 2018 Hours: Sunday: 8:00am – 1:00pm Admission: $5.00   Check out ISRA's website at www.isra.org! 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