{"id":5391,"date":"2010-06-27T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/06\/27\/concealed-carry-gains-momentum-in\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:11:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:11:12","slug":"concealed-carry-gains-momentum-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5391","title":{"rendered":"Concealed Carry Gains Momentum in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:19400,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bnd.com\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/27\\\/1309412\\\/concealed-carry-gains-momentum.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16285,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.john-ross.net\\\/faq.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7616,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.illinoiscarry.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The Belleville News Democrat ran a good story today about the movement towards concealed carry in the state of Illinois.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>With 15 killings in six months, East St. Louis is on track to once again earn the label of one of the deadliest cities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>But residents there, like all Illinois citizens, cannot legally walk around with a concealed pistol for protection.<\/p>\n<p>Steve King, who operates the Belleville Indoor Shooting Range, says law-abiding residents of East St. Louis and throughout Illinois should be able to legally carry concealed handguns to defend their lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Much of the crime in our area is in East St. Louis,&#8221; said King, &#8220;This is not meant to be derogatory toward East St. Louis. There are many law-abiding people there who have their backs against the wall who must risk breaking the law to protect themselves. They should be allowed to protect themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And some top metro-east lawmen agree. They urge that a law be adopted in Illinois to make it legal for qualified persons to pack a handgun. Illinois and Wisconsin are the only two states to entirely ban concealed firearms.<\/p>\n<p>St. Clair County Sheriff Mearl Justus, Madison County Sheriff Robert Hertz and Belleville Police Chief Bill Clay all said they would support a concealed-carry law for trained persons who could pass an extensive background check.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnd.com\/2010\/06\/27\/1309412\/concealed-carry-gains-momentum.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This issue is of particular interest to me as the Complementary Mother-in-Law lives in St. Clair County. Having driven around East St. Louis, I always pray that I never have car trouble as the place reminds me of a Third World country. If you&#8217;ve read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.john-ross.net\/faq.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Ross&#8217;s <i>Unintended Consequences<\/i><\/a>, you know what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Here is a link to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoiscarry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> IllinoisCarry&nbsp; <\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belleville News Democrat ran a good story today about the movement towards concealed carry in the state of&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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158,317],"class_list":["post-5391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-concealed-carry","tag-illinois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391","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=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5538,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions\/5538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}