Prairie State Wire

The Illinois State Rifle Association is calling on the state’s gun owners to get active in presidential politics in the wake of President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will seek a second term.

“Now that Joe Biden has announced his intention to run for President of the United States again, this should be a clarion call for law-abiding gun owners to get active,” the ISRA stated in a news release. “Biden and his cronies will stop at nothing to destroy the Second Amendment and all those who stand in the way. Every second he is president, he is entrenching antigun bureaucrats in the government to make life harder for gun owners after he is gone, executing Executive Orders to attack gun owners, the firearms industry, and firearm dealers. Another term would mean more evil does this way come.”  

ISRA Executive Director Richard Pearson encouraged people to vote and "get over that old saw.” While "many people don’t like early voting," he said "early voting helps win elections. 

“There are only 327 days until the March 19th Primary Election and only 558 days until the 2024 General Election. This sounds like a long time, but in the political world, it is the day after tomorrow," Pearson said. "Time is short. If you are not registered to vote, do it today or tomorrow at the latest.  I don’t want to hear that old whine that if you register to vote, they might call you for jury duty. So what! You would let your country go down the drain because you are afraid of jury duty? If so, you are the very definition of worthless. Besides, they use driver’s licenses now. You shouldn’t be driving anyway. If Old Joe gets elected, you won’t have to worry about jury duty anyway. Defendants can’t be on the jury.” 

Biden has called for a federal “assault weapon” ban modeled on what passed in Illinois outlawing over 170 common types of firearms which has been deemed unconstitutional in four Illinois courts and is awaiting an expedited review by the Illinois State Supreme Court.

“I call on Congress again to pass my assault weapon ban. It’s about time we begin to make some progress, but there’s more to learn,” Biden said at a Small Business Administration Women’s Business Summit after a shooting at The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville. Biden was criticized for a lapse in judgment at the event for gushing over “chocolate chip ice cream,” according to Politico.

The continued push for a federal gun ban is unlikely given a divided Congress. However, anti-censorship advocates are calling for the manifesto of the trans shooter in the Nashville event to be released. That attack took place days before an announced nationwide “Trans Day of Vengeance.” 

"It's been very perplexing to all of us involved," U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) told Fox News. "It seems that certain information is flooded into the marketplace immediately if it fits the narrative, so to speak. If the information does not fit the narrative, it seems to get suppressed."  

Hagerty added that the Biden administration has delayed the release of the manifesto in an attempt to control the narrative over the shooting and gun rights in general. 

"We've got an administration in the White House that's far more focused on press releases, spin and politics than they are on substance and reality," Hagerty told Fox News. "It's not just what's happening here domestically, it's what's happening around the world."