{"id":3037,"date":"2012-08-21T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/08\/21\/defacto-concealed-carry-in-edwards\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:20","slug":"defacto-concealed-carry-in-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3037","title":{"rendered":"Defacto Concealed Carry In Edwards County, Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15287,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.myfoxchicago.com\\\/story\\\/19325546\\\/-exclusive&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.myfoxchicago.com\\\/story\\\/19325546\\\/-exclusive&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15288,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Deal_with_the_Devil&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260413151349\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Deal_with_the_Devil&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 11:19:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 11:19:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13599,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.myfoxchicago.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.myfoxchicago.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>State&#8217;s Attorney Mike Valentine of Edwards County, IL is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxchicago.com\/story\/19325546\/-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refusing to prosecute residents of that county for carrying concealed firearms<\/a> so long as they are otherwise law-abiding citizens. Moreover, it looks like other Illinois State&#8217;s Attorneys might be joining the bandwagon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>But Bloomington&#8217;s McLean County, population 170,000, may soon announce a similar policy.<\/p>\n<p>State&#8217;s Attorney Ronald Dozier told us he&#8217;s already sent a legal memo to other Illinois prosecutors explaining his belief that it&#8217;s unconstitutional to ban the carrying of loaded firearms in public. Some are outraged.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The usual suspects are &#8220;outraged&#8221; but a spokesperson for Attorney General Lisa Madigan says that they &#8220;are not the boss of state&#8217;s attorney&#8221; noting that they are independently elected.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FoxChicago story, one Chicago area state house member, State Rep. La Shawn Ford (D-Chicago) is proposing a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deal_with_the_Devil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faustian alternative<\/a>. He would agree to let individual counties set their own policy regarding concealed carry in exchange for banning &#8220;assault weapons&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If I were an Illinois resident I would tell Mr. Ford that his Devil&#8217;s pact doesn&#8217;t cut it. Not only would it ban the most popular rifle in America but it would create a patchwork of conflicting laws designed to snare the unwary. There is a reason most states have state pre-emption statutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxchicago.com\/\" title=\"Chicago News and Weather | FOX Chicago News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago News and Weather | FOX Chicago News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State&#8217;s Attorney Mike Valentine of Edwards County, IL is refusing to prosecute residents of that county for carrying concealed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158,3075,317],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-concealed-carry","tag-foxchicago","tag-illinois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8282,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/8282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}