Gun Control & RKBA

A handful of ads and a few out of state lobbyists promising campaign $upport, don't balance out a few hundred or more constituents knocking on the office door or calling to fry the switchboard for a week or two at a time. No substitute for a massive and repeated shoe leather effort.

We learned that in Illinois, when we were pushing for concealed carry every year. By the time the court decision came down the legislators had been seeing 8,000 to 10,000 of us on Illinois gun owners lobby day (I-GOLD) and talking to some of us for a few years on office visits. They actually knew some of us personally by then.

Brandon Phelps (D) was the author of our Shall Issue bill and had wide, bi-partisan support, from everywhere except Chicago. They wanted May Issue with blanket restrictions for all businesses unless they made an opt out request.

Thankfully, Chicago has such a horseshit record on gun control they weren't taken seriously.