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Victory: Illinois Ban on Handgun Carry Struck Down

rhinegarten Wrote: Dec 12, 2012 5:49 AM
Wonder why they show a Russian TT pistol (cal 7.62 x 25) for the cover photo? I've seen it on other articles at TH. Those are almost a collector's piece these days, the design having originated in the early 1930s.
InfantryVet Wrote: Dec 12, 2012 3:10 PM
Emberato is right, they do shoot very nicely and a spam can of ammo for them still isn't too expensive.
Emberato Wrote: Dec 12, 2012 6:13 AM
Because they shoot soooo good.
rhinegarten Wrote: Dec 12, 2012 7:33 AM
I assume that you're being facetious, if you knew anyting about them at all.

In a victory for the Second Amendment and self defense advocates everywhere, Judge Richard Posner ruled in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Tuesday that the Illinois ban on carrying a firearm outside of the home for self-defense purposes is unconstitutional.

“One doesn’t have to be a historian to realize that a right to keep and bear arms for personal self-defense in the eighteenth century could not rationally have been limited to the home. . . .  Twenty-first century Illinois has no hostile Indians. But a Chicagoan is a good deal more likely to be...

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