IL State Police post concealed carry instructor application and requirements

Of course the Illinois legislature could do the ISP (not to mention the apocalyptically ruinous state budget) an enormous favor, and treat the right to keep and bear arms as if it were a right Constitutionally mandated to not be infringed, and thus not subject to the byzantine system of legal hoops current law inflicts on it. And of course they will not.

Not, at least, until the people of Illinois give them no choice. [More]

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