Sunday, March 24, 2013

Gun industry sales soar: East Dundee officials predict G.A.T. Guns will be the second largest generator of sales tax dollars in the village only behind Walmart.

For you folks not familiar with the Chicago area retail firearms landscape, GAT Guns has been in business selling guns, ammo and fishing tackle, along with operating an indoor shooting range since the '80s. Located in Dundee IL, just a stone's throw from the border of Cook County, GAT just recently finished a major renovation and expansion which includes additional indoor range space, more than doubling the number of shooting lanes. 

It's no coincidence they chose to locate just across the county border line. Cook County liberals, look hard at the tax revenues you have forsaken:
G.A.T. Guns now a part of East Dundee

The village of East Dundee has annexed several properties on Route 25, including G.A.T. Guns, which officials predict will be the second-largest generator of tax revenue in town behind Walmart.
East Dundee officials sweetened the deal by agreeing to finance G.A.T. Guns' $5.5 million expansion.

The expansion would add 24 indoor shooting-range lanes for high-caliber rifles and 10 indoor lanes for handguns, where there are now 24.
The money, which would come from a tax increment finance district — where property taxes that go to local governments are frozen at a certain point and taxes above that point go back into development — also would improve the building and its parking lot. As part of the agreement, the business has to stay in town for 12 years.
G.A.T. Guns sells firearms and gun accessories and offers shooting ranges for practice. Its clientele is a mix of civilians and law-enforcement officers.
G.A.T. stands for "guns, ammo, training." The company has been around since 1979 but in its current location since 1988. The business has more than 6,000 firearms on hand at any given time and has been honored for recruiting members for the National Rifle Association, said Greg Tropino Jr., who runs it with his father.
"We already are one of the largest private facilities in the country and this (expansion) allows us to be at least the largest gun range in the country that's privately held and allows us to be much bigger and better," Tropino said.
The expansion should start within the next two weeks and end this winter, Tropino said.
Without the expansion, the business was expected to generate $365,000 in combined sales and amusement tax revenues in the first year, interim Village Administrator Bob Skurla said.
"That would be the size of a small- to medium-size car dealer," Skurla said, adding that the number should grow as the business expands. "I think you can see, going down the road, that the sales tax and the amusement tax to the village could conceivably get to $1 million."
East Dundee officials have agreed not to interfere with G.A.T. Guns' daily operations.
The vote took place Saturday, so the village could start collecting sales taxes and the 5 percent amusement tax on the first of the month, Skurla said.
But East Dundee Trustee Allen Skillicorn said the meeting should have been held Monday to give the public a chance to attend and give input.
"It would be nice if it was a little transparent," Skillicorn said. "The legal requirements were there, but it was a little fast-paced."
Other properties annexed into East Dundee on Saturday were Pampered Pets, MAS Accounting, The Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation and a pair of private residential properties. As a result, East Dundee's limits have been extended another half mile south on Route 25.
The village is still in talks to annex the Milk Pail and Sierra Studio.
I've spent may hours in the range at GAT back when there were few places to shoot in the Chicago area. I will always stop in when I'm in the area. Congratulations to GAT on your expansion, and thanks for keeping the faith during the hard times. And congratulations to the officials of East Dundee IL for making a smart choice for the future of your village and it's taxpayers.



Saturday, March 23, 2013

"Son" of Obama shoots year old baby dead in stroller.

Our President spoke of the dear departed Trayvon Martin like this : "if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon." Well Mr.President, if you're gonna claim lil' Tray as one of your own for the only reason being the color of his skin, you'll have to accept De'Marquise Elkins as you son also:

"Give me your money or I'm going to kill you and I'm going to shoot your baby and kill your baby"

Brunswick, Georgia (CNN) -- Two teen boys in this coastal city were charged with murder Friday, accused in the fatal shooting of a 13-month-old boy who was in a stroller being pushed by his mother.
Chief Tobe Green identified the older suspect as De'Marquise Elkins, 17, and said he will be treated as an adult in criminal proceedings. The 14-year-old was not identified because of his age. Both have been charged with first-degree murder, police said.
 De'Marquise Elkins, the latest adopted son of Barack & Michelle:


Anti-gun activists protest 7 Cricuit Court Concealed Carry ruling.

And the turnout was stupendous.

ANTI-CONCEALED CARRY RALLY IN CHICAGO


PRO-CONCEALED CARRY RALLY IN SPRINGFIELD


Homeland Security spokesman admits: "more than 100,000 armed law enforcement personnel in DHS"

Added to an already alarming list: 
  • 100,000+ armed law enforcement personnel in DHS
Plus what we already know DHS has in their armory :
  • 1.6 BILLION rounds of ammunition.
  • 7,000 Select-fire "Personal Defense Weapons."
  • Predator drones capable of identifying whether a citizen is armed.
  • 2,700 "Mine Resistant Armor Protected" assault vehicles.
And Janet still refuses to discuss just who the Department of Homeland security is arming itself against.


Thursday, March 21, 2013

Who says there is no truth to stereotypes: "7 shot during rap video release party at Gresham nightclub"

How many urban stereotypes can be found in this story:
7 shot during rap video release party at Gresham nightclub
A manager for rapper Lil Mouse said the teenage artist left a South Side nightclub before seven people were shot early Thursday at a rap video release party.
Police said three people pulled out handguns and started firing shots both inside and outside Mr. G’s Supper Club and Entertainment Center at 87th and Ashland about 1:13 a.m.
The Auburn Gresham neighborhood shooting was gang-related, said police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro. A promotional poster indicated rap artists Nino, King Samson and Lil Mouse performed at the event.
A spokesman for Gene Linton, the nightclub’s owner, said in a statement he has pledged “full and complete cooperation with the Chicago Police Department.”The offenders of this crime must be brought to justice,” Sean Howard wrote.
Raheem Karriem, who goes by “Big Cuz” and said he is president of Hella Bandz Music Group, said Lil Mouse performed at the club and left two hours before the shooting.
“He was probably asleep when that happened,” Karriem said.
He said Lil Mouse, 13, is accompanied by his mother when he performs at nightclubs, is monitored by security and doesn’t mingle with the crowd.
“He does his act and he leaves,” Karriem said. “That’s it.”
Three people — a 19-year-old woman, a 21-year-old man and a 23-year-old man — were driven to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn with gunshot wounds, Alfaro said. The 19-year-old woman was shot seven times, according to dispatch reports. All three were listed in stable condition.
Additionally, two men, ages 20 and 21, were in stable condition after one man was taken by ambulance and another was driven to Holy Cross Hospital, police said.
Two more men, ages 26 and 36, were also in stable condition after being driven to Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Center, Alfaro said.
But police on the scene said the exact number of injured was hard to determine because a handful of the wounded were driven to area hospitals by people they knew.
A YouTube video for the Lil Mouse song “Im 4real” shows the rapper and his crew wearing apparel emblazoned with the phrase “no talking” – an apparent reference to the no-snitch code that governs much of the city’s gang violence. The song lyrics feature allusions to gun violence.
Karriem said the song is part of a compilation being released Friday and was likely performed at the club.
No one was in custody as Area South detectives were investigating.
This aspiring hip-hop artist is so full of stereotype I don't know where to start:


DHS refusing to answer questions about the 1.6 BILLION rounds of ammunition purchased in the last year.

Big Sis mum regarding the question at hand: Just who is the DHS planning to go to war against?

Covered previously, but worth repeating. This is what we know has been added to the DHS armory in the last year:

  • 1.6 BILLION rounds of ammunition.
  • 7,000 Select-fire "Personal Defense Weapons."
  • Predator drones capable of identifying whether a citizen is armed.
  • 2,700 "Mine Resistant Armor Protected" assault vehicles.
So tell us Janet, just who is the DHS at war with?