Illinois State Air Pistol Team Wins Gold in the NRA National Air Pistol Postal Match

By Justin Stakes

Springfield, IL -(AmmoLand.com)- Congratulations to the Illinois State Air Pistol Team for taking the Gold in the NRA National Air Pistol Postal Match.

The team is made up of Scott Breyer, Anatoly Andrianov, Adam Nyenhuis, John LaBusier and Mike Keefe. The competition was very close between first and second but the Illinois team won by two points. Great job!

After you have been in Springfield lobbying for a while you notice your senses becoming more acute. One of those senses is your sense of smell. In other words, you read a bill and you think to yourself, “there is something about this bill that smells funny.” This is known as the “sniff test” and you can get amazingly good at smelling a rat.

One such bill is SB3076. SB3076 calls for giving certain county emergency management agencies police powers (in counties over 500,000, with a city over 1,000,000). That is Cook County. The first question is why would county emergency management agencies need police powers? We already have a number of police agencies. We have local police departments, sheriffs police, State Police, conservation police, the FBI, DEA, Homeland Security, United States Marshals, interagency tactical teams and who knows what …Read the Rest

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