Gun Shop in Oak Park
Try to open up a gun shop in the traditionally staunchly anti-gun suburb of Oak Park and you can expect to get some resistance.
That’s what Justin Delefuente got this week when he attended a public meeting to talk about his plan to start selling guns in a small storefront on Roosevelt Road near Ridgeland Avenue.
More than 80 people filled the Irving School Auditorium, expressing concerns about having a gun dealer around the corner from their homes and a block away from a public school.
Delefuente said he would only sell rifles and shotguns to the public. Handguns would only be sold to law enforcement personnel, he said.
Long guns are legal in Illinois and should be even more legal as various lawsuits work their ways through the courts and restore stolen freedoms to the citizens of Illinois. Eighty people worried about a gun shop catering to cops?
Labels: gun issues
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
52 Comments:
I wonder if the buyers will have to provide a grammar school graduation picture.
Breit & Johnson were on North Avenue in Oak Park for years & years.
It was one of Daley's favorite places to use as a backdrop when spewing his anti-gun nonsense.
There was another joint on Harlem in Elmwood Park for a while, too.
rb
It's Oak Park, liberals don't like the Police there.
It's the land of "Fruits and nuts", whaddaya expect ?
YEA, tell me about it....
I bought my first two handguns at Breit & Johnson's Sporting Goods in Oak Park. What a bunch of dopes that live there today...
My pledge.. If your store opens up, I will only buy ALL of my firearms from your store. CPD 9161
People are liberal in Oak Park. AKA Peoples Republic of Oak Park. This is not a news story.
These liberal toads who have us carrying slingshots with spitballs for ammo!
What annoys me about these anti gun rights people here in Illinois is that they think we're blazing some fucking trail.
They could allay their dumb little 'fears' by simply looking at all the other places where people are allowed their gun rights to see that the hysterical mental constructs they've built up in their minds have no basis in the world we all live in.
But as is standard and expected, the entire dialog eventually decays into answering to their fantasies and hypothetical scenarios rather than addressing the facts.
Frankly, Sally Soccer Mom, I couldn't care less if you choose to own a gun or not, but don't belittle everyone's intellect by demanding we seriously respond to your idiotic notion that the presence of a federally licensed gun store will somehow increase crime or endanger your kids. It just isn't true. Our very practical gun rights are a helluva lot more important than your goddamn baseless anti gun 'theories'.
Oak Park would be happy if Obama was re-elected, that says it all.
These nit-wits act like the guys going to be selling crack out of his shop. Hey dummies, most of Illinois residents are pro gun, it's just these idiots near Chicago that have issues with firearms.
ANON. said --
Frankly, Sally Soccer Mom, I couldn't care less if you choose to own a gun or not, but don't belittle everyone's intellect by demanding we seriously respond to your idiotic notion that the presence of a federally licensed gun store will somehow increase crime or endanger your kids. It just isn't true. Our very practical gun rights are a helluva lot more important than your goddamn baseless anti gun 'theories'.
12/01/2011 03:51:00 AM
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Great comment. You are some brainless, redneck, idiot if you are pro-gun according to these flakes.
What they should do is make the NON-gun owners register and make them pay a $500 fee for the extra protection they need because they don't adhere to the Second Amendment and cost the taxpayers more money for more police protection.
Register all non-gun owners! Let THEM get a license!
Oak Park is a "dead" town, no weed
sellers or hookers on the corners,
no homeless weed smokers up and down the streets looking for the weed sellers, and now blocking a
proposed gun-shop. Where is their
sense of adventure and excitement ?
Crimefile said...
I bought my first two handguns at Breit & Johnson's Sporting Goods in Oak Park. What a bunch of dopes that live there today...
12/01/2011 12:33:00 AM
I bought my first S&W service revolver there. The old blued large frame .357 Model 28. Then the range began to be filled with west side shitheads and the pile of spent lead bullets downrange got up to 3 feet deep I stopped going.
But a gun store in Oak Park now?
I thought Oak Park did away with guns and switched to the Chief Tanksley handy dandy crime whistle. You simply shove the crime whistle up your ass and when you shit yourself hope it makes some type of frightening sound to scare the criminals away.
The Breit and Johnson from Oak Park and the gun store on Harlem in Elmwood Park were all one in the same. Owned by the same guy. who btw, was not too fond of the police after the CAGE shenanigans.
Do they think it's like a car dealership where the customers are going to walk out in front of the store to test fire a few rounds before they buy it.
Yes, the Oak Park liberalism is working well for the city. It is hilarious to go to their town meetings and listen how they welcome all people, but then privately they tell one another how they don't want things to "change" in their little portion of their pristine village.
Oh, I forgot this is typical liberal NIMBY thought. For awhile I attended an Oak Park congregation on the east end of their town and they spoke in hushed tones about the negative changes taking place around them.
Now they are afraid that a gun store will cause the sky to fall?
These people are not grounded in reality.
Wonder how many of these asshole Libs would feel a little different having a Thug put a gun up to their head as they are being robbed. Everything is personal. Rob ME, MY family, or MY house and I will fuck you up. Do it to someone else....so what. When you are being victimized by the monsters roaming our towns none of these self serving jagoffs will be around to help you.
Dick Head Liberals like the ones in Oak Park only want to see the police when they need them. Any other time they spit on you. Lots of crime in Oak Park. Let them all fend for themselves. Take the losers to the morgue and the winners to jail.
Not even a real gun shop; more like FFL transfers. Guns not even displayed in cases in the "store." No ammo. And Oak Park is all negative. Wow. Silly.
speaking of guns why did obama seal records on Boarder Agents death involveing the boarder agents death and fast and furious? Also WHY is FOP so quiet on the situationJMK ret cpd 68,,98
Anyone know how much he will charge for a "gun transfer" if we order from say; Gunbroker.com ?
Dont forget it is called "The Peoples Republic of Oak Park" for a reason
How long before father flakey and JJ show up in front of the shop and urge the crowd to kill the owner just as they did at Chuck's Dolton Gunshop?
One of Pfleger’s most notable projects, in which Arne Duncan part-icipated, was the picketing of Chuck’s Gun Shop in Riverdale, a short distance south of Chicago. Pursuant to Illinois law, Chuck’s only sells guns to customers who have already obtained a Firearms Owner’s Identification Card (FOID) issued by the Illinois State Police after a background check. The employees of Chuck’s Gun Shop have also voluntarily undertaken the “Don’t Lie For The Other Guy” training program sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) that helps gun store employees detect straw purchases (purchases by legal buyers conducted on behalf of prohibited persons).
Yet Father Pfleger and Rev. Jesse Jackson have organized crowds to repeatedly picket Chuck’s Gun Shop. On June 23, 2007, Jackson and Pfleger were arrested for criminally obstructing the entrance to the store. The charges were eventually dropped.
There is not a shred of evidence that Chuck’s Gun Shop has ever violated any law. It is not any misdeed by the store that attracts Pfleger and his crew. Their moral outrage against the store is simply that it sells firearms. They demand that the city council ban all gun stores, as they carry signs reading “Vote Riverdale Gun-Free” and chanted “Vote Riverdale Gun-Dry.”?
Duncan:
This is a public health epidemic. We are struggling to find the cure for AIDS, we are struggling to find the cure for cancer; we know the cure for this public health epidemic--getting rid of guns.
Arne Duncan showed up to speak to Pfleger’s mob at a May 26, 2007, demonstration at the store, owned by John Riggio. Pfleger told the crowd: “We’re going to find you and snuff you out … like a rat you’re going to hide. But like a rat, we’re going to catch you and pull you out … We’re going to snuff out John Riggio.”
Pfleger also promised: “We’re going to snuff out legislators that are voting against our gun laws. We’re coming for you because we’re not going to sit idly.”??
Outstanding with one exception. If I want to buy a hand gun. According to this I need to be a cop? Dont think so.
I can see some issues arising if he doesnt sell to a legal FOID holder.
As for the nit wits in OakPark...
Remember the gas station where the attendant work a .45?
Oak park is truly liberal heaven.
I wish the man well and a long prosperous business!
Screw the "Oak Park 80". They probably think the police are all you need to protect yourself.
"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to hear there are other views"--William F Buckley Jr.
If the liberal doesn't want a gun, he doesn't want YOU to have one.
If he doesn't want to eat at McDonald's, YOU can't eat at McDonald's.
If he wants to drive an electric car, you MUST drive one.
Starting to get the picture?
No freedom of choice, because they know what's better for YOU.
My solution, don't fuck with me, I won't fuck with you.
I am tired of driving to Des Plaines in order to practice my home defense skills, you know backing away from a threat in your home asking them to please leave, Fuck all that. Let's say we open a range right here in the city? No gun sales, only ammo and targets. This way us law abiding citizens can practice with our GUNS in the city limits.
I am sure there are a million reasons why we could not do this, but for another million, maybe we could get the city to understand, especially if the right palms are greased. This is Chitcago after all.
Not trying to favor web sites,or being deleted by SCC for advertizing. All good people of Chicago visit, Cabelas, Gander Mountain, Bass pro shop, Midwest guns.They can help you to obtain a gun to protect yourself and your loved ones.
Disregard all the gun control that Hitler and Stalin would advocate. Citizens of Chicago. Get a small pocket pistol to protect yourself.They are so small that no one knows you have it. If you ever have to use it, deal with the consequences later. Your life will have be saved. The second amendment is your conceal carry permit.
No cop should arrest an honest citizen that has a gun to protect them in their line of work, or travel. Second amendment.
I don't see why this guy won't see handguns as well. We have some of the strictest requirements for firearm purchases in the country here. If you have an FOID and pass the wait period, it shouldn't even be an issue. If you're going to sell any firearm, sell all that you legally can....in for a penny, in for a pound!
Sid Breit taught me how to shoot in the basement range they had on North Ave. A looong time ago. The other store on Harlem near Diversey closed about three or four years ago.
Hey Oak Park!
Read the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution!
Join NRA!
Bunch of "Communist Flakes" in Oak Park!
Da Pelon
"It's Oak Park, liberals don't like the Police there..."
--12/01/2011 12:26:00 AM
...but at the same time maintain these hired gunmen to keep Bad Things away from their landscaping...
I think "hypocrites" is the word I'm looking for.
I've found that in the Chicagoland area...most of the Anti Gun Crowd are Either:
A. Related to a Criminal
2. A Criminal
C. A political Criminal
4. Stupid
There's a gun shop/range attempting to open in Lombard as I write this. I say "attempting" because it seems like every time the owners have everything squared away in terms of permits, air handling systems, backstops, etc., the village of Lombard finds "one more reason" to keep them
from opening.
I was in there a few months ago and one owner told me the "last hurdle" was a modification of the air handling system. This was being worked on during my visit.
A couple of weeks ago I ran into a guy I know who told me the range STILL isn't open because of yet another air handling
system problem.
BTW, these owners KNOW what they're doing. They are the same ones who ran a range in Bensenville on Irving Park Road for years.
Bought my first rifle, a mosberg .22, at Breit & johnson in the late '70s. An interesting place w/ a large inventory of antiqe guns and 2 ranges.
What a shame its gone.
OT:
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Mayor Emaunuel has preached fiscal sacrifice to other public officials in reguards to bloated Security details. But the sacrifice does not include him or his own family. Sitting on stage left three rows up was Mayor Emanuel's middle age son surrounded by a Presidential like Security detail of ivory in a sea of chocolate. Thats right, the taxpayer was paying so little Rahm could attend his first Hip Hop Concert
There's a gun shop/range attempting to open in Lombard as I write this. I say "attempting" because...
12/01/2011 04:42:00 PM
They are open.
I had friends living in Oak Park. They moved out because the taxes were too high . Who cares what they do there.
Gun World finally opened it's doors the day before Thanksgiving.[They have a Facebook page]. I have no idea if Scumbard gave them a hard time or not--but they probably did. Lombard should be added to the long list of screw-up suburbs making poor financial decision(s).
They (the village of) purchased the Westin Hotel a few years ago next to the Yorktown shopping center "for investment purposes." I'm hearing it's a big-flop for them. Some part of the loan is coming due which is not good. My prediction is LAYOFFS.
"Oak Park is a "dead" town, no weed
sellers or hookers on the corners,
no homeless weed smokers up and down the streets looking for the weed sellers, and now blocking a
proposed gun-shop. Where is their
sense of adventure and excitement ?"
If they want to walk on the wild side, all they have to do is go east of Austin Avenue.
I'd be willing to bet that there are plenty of gun owners in Oak Park already, particularly those on the Chicago borders.
rb
"How long before father flakey and JJ show up in front of the shop and urge the crowd to kill the owner just as they did at Chuck's Dolton Gunshop?"
They'll be there as soon as the cameras get there!
Anonymous said...
Not trying to favor web sites,or being deleted by SCC for advertizing. All good people of Chicago visit, Cabelas, Gander Mountain, Bass pro shop, Midwest guns.They can help you to obtain a gun to protect yourself and your loved ones.
12/01/2011 01:38:00 PM
Avoid Cook county taxes on weapons!
Rinks in lockport and megasports in plainfield. And if I like you, Ill sell you a gun since I have an FFL license. Again,People of Illinois, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GROW TIRED OF BEING RAPED AND PILLAGED BY BOTH THE POLITICIANS AND THE SAVAGES?
WHEN do YOU "draw the line"?
Its all well and fine to lament here on the blog but WE MUST ORGANIZE and FIGHT THE SYSTEM! WE MUST SHOW SPRINGFIELD WE MEAN BUSINESS! Im for holding a protest where thousands of FOID card holders show up on the front lawn of the state capitol wearing empty holsters and DEMANDING THE RIGHT TO CARRY!
Im FOR voting out all the Madigans,Cullertons,and Quinns from this god forsaken State.
We are the ONLY state in the ENTIRE COUNTRY that makes carrying a weapon a felony. It is a CRIME in this state to carry a weapon to defend your self and your loved ones that the US and ILLINOIS Constitution say YOU CAN carry. Sorry for the rant SCC but this is a very passionate topic for me and I will NOT be quiet about it until CCW passes in ILLINOIS.
I posted this on Shaved's this morning. I am tired of the liberal cry babies:
I am surprised to read some of the comments from the brainwashed sheeple who live in Illinois that think gun ownership is tied to being a redneck, a mental case, or some other defect.
All you crybabies wanting gun control should have to register as NON-GUN owners who need to depend more on public law enforcement because you are not following the US Constitution
YOU are costing us more money.
YOU are not taking on your responsibility to protect your family.
YOU are the mental midgets, not us.
YOU should have to register AND PAY a yearly $500 fee because you are draining more from public resources because you need to call the police every time you hear a noise.
YOU are the abnormal morons who are clueless when it comes to protecting yourself and your families.
How does it feel to be called a sub-intelligent, weak-minded moron who has no self-reliability, no idea of protecting your home and family and needs to depend on someone else whenever trouble rears its head?
Go change your Depends and stay out of the line-of-fire.
From Shaved's = December 2, 2011 7:03 AM
Go change your Depends and stay out of the line-of-fire.
From Shaved's = December 2, 2011 7:03 AM
12/02/2011 04:34:00 PM
and make sure you've got those diapers properly licensed and registered.
liberals, sodomites, liberals, anti-police and socialists. These are the degenerates that call oak park home, what else would you expect? obama ball lickers. fuck them.
I think with Illinois Supreme Court overturned the Chicago Ordinance restricting guns in Chicago for the past 25 years, Oak Park's Law went with it. It is Oak Park, Chicago.
I've lived in Oak Park since 1972 and used to shoot with my dad at competition in a firing range located at the Oak Park Conservatory. It was razed shortly after Oak Park banned guns.
It's good to see Oak Park restoring resident rights. The people had done nothing wrong to deserve their rights stripped for a lifetime.
So many people have lost a sense of security in the recent months, with the trayvone Martin Shooting, the Aurora Colorado Movie Theater Massacre and the most recent murder/suicice attempt by a Westchester police offer who killed his wife at his kid's graduation party. Applying for an FOID is a way for people to get back the sense of security they've lost.
I'm on my way to apply for an FOID Card. I lost my right 23 years ago through the commission of a felony theft. In Illinois felons may be granted an FOID card by the court should the State Police deny the application.
For me, while there is no immediate threat to my safety, petitioning the court for restoration of rights is part of the rebuilding process from a lifetime of being labeled a criminal. I have used my freedom properly and have shown that I am not a threat to myself, the community, or society as a whole.
A restoration of rights is not a pardon and does not expunge the criminal conviction from the public records. I would still be unable to hold public office, and would not be allowed employment in certain fields where a criminal background is a disability.
Thanks for your post. It's been educational. And right back atcha...
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