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Our 3 full time lobbyists are always working when the General Assembly is in session.

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Dedicated to education, safety training and support of Illinois firearms owners.

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F Class Competition Participants

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The renowned Massad Ayoob holds regular MAG classes at our range.

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The Indoor Air Rifle and Air Pistol Leagues are a great way to sharpen your shooting skills

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Sparks and smoke fly at the ISRA Muzzle Loading Championship at the ISRA range.

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Our 3 full time lobbyists are always working when the General Assembly is in session.

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"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it."

LT. Col. Jeff Cooper

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Dedicated to education, safety training and support of Illinois firearms owners.

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F Class Competition Participants

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“There’s no such thing as a good gun. There’s no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys.”

Charlton Heston

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The renowned Massad Ayoob holds regular MAG classes at our range.

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The Indoor Air Rifle and Air Pistol Leagues are a great way to sharpen your shooting skills

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Sparks and smoke fly at the ISRA Muzzle Loading Championship at the ISRA range.

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Glock Match Rescheduled

The Glock match scheduled for Sun 11/30 is rescheduled to 12/14.



Check your numbers! Guns of November raffle




CCL Class Upcoming Dates:
3 hr Renewal & Qualification: Dec 11, Dec 27, Jan 31   CCL course over 2 days: Mar 21/22   CCL qualification: Dec 7, Feb 8, Mar 8

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Thursday Bulletin – December 04, 2025

December 4, 2025

Thursday Bulletin – December 04, 2025 Executive Director's Message Richard Pearson Introducing - The “ISRA Paladin” Sustaining Membership     I am pleased to announce that the ISRA is introducing our new sustaining membership.  The membership is called the “ISRA Paladin.” When you become an ISRA Paladin, you join the front line in defending the Second Amendment in Illinois.  Your commitment helps power the ISRA’s training, education, and legal efforts that protect the rights of every law-abiding gun owner in our state. What is a PALADIN—and why should you become one? In the time of King Charlemagne, the Paladins were his most trusted and honorable knights—sworn to act with courage, defend the innocent, and protect what was just.  Their loyalty and leadership made them legends.  Today’s ISRA Paladins carry that same spirit.  They stand firm for freedom, safeguard the innocent, and defend our rights against those who would take them...

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Thursday Bulletin – November 27, 2025

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Thursday Bulletin – November 27, 2025 Executive Director's Message Richard Pearson Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! The first Thanksgiving on American soil was held in 1621.  The Wampanoag Native Americans taught the new settlers how to grow crops, making food more plentiful.  The celebration of the bountiful harvest was attended by approximately 50 Englishmen and 90 Native Americans.  It lasted three days.  The "Pilgrims" sat at tables and the Native Americans sat on the ground, just like they did at home.  Between feasts of venison, turkey, geese, ducks and other items, there were foot races and marksmanship contests.  Yes, marksmanship contests have been here from the beginning! By 1675, there were about 25,000 new immigrants here and things weren't going so well.  Thanksgiving celebrations were limited to local areas that experienced a good harvest. In 1777, General George Washington declared a day of thanksgiving after the American victory over the British in...

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Thursday Bulletin – November 20, 2025

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Thursday Bulletin – November 20, 2025 Executive Director's Message Richard Pearson   The American Paradigm Every country has their paradigm.  So many Americans can’t seem to tell the difference between right and wrong because their American objectivity has been so diluted by non-American alternatives disguised as an enlightened civilized society.  Many Americans no longer acknowledge the reasons why we’re all here, or at least the historical reasons we’re *supposed* to acknowledge why we’re here. For Americans who are confused, if you want to be a good person, follow the Ten Commandments - you don’t have to be religious, you can be an atheist; they’re all good ideas for a stable society.  If you want to be a good American, commit to our purpose of freedom - our breakaway from traditional European history. The American paradigm consists of, 1. making morality and ethics your top priority of every conscious decision you...

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Our Mission

ISRA Supports Illinois Firearm Owners with Education, Training, Litigation and Legislation to PROTECT your 2nd Amendment Rights

As we stand at the threshold of our second century, we continue to promote marksmanship and gun safety. At the same time, our role is widening beyond our Founders’ wildest dreams. Politicians, whose actions over 200 years ago formed us for the protection of the United States, now betray us and the ideals that made this country great.

Hunters are attacked by animal rights activists – and the law protects the activists.

Public hunting lands, purchased by special taxes imposed on hunters, are now closed to those same hunters.

Mayors and other politicians whose policies have caused segments of our society to go out of control blame gun owners for their failures.

Radical anti-gun organizations partnering with major news media seek to make gun ownership, sport shooting, hunting, collecting, and self-defense illegal or impossible.

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Education And Training

ISRA is dedicated to educating children and adults on the safe and proper use of guns.

The mission of the ISRA Academy is to promote firearm safety and excellence in marksmanship by providing training and other educational opportunities to all law-abiding gun owners in Illinois.

In 1903, the year of inception of ISRA, the Education & Training Committee was formed with the sole purpose of providing civilians an opportunity to learn and practice shooting skills so they would become proficient marksmen if later called on to serve in the U.S. military. Over the years the activities of the Committee were expanded to include education and training of youth and women in all types of shooting sports.

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“Ninety-eight percent of the people in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”

Lily Tomlin

“The people who work against your gun rights are basically saying to you, “The right of the criminal to rip you off, rape and kill you shall not be infringed.” And they wonder why we’re a bit testy”

Editor of KABA LIBERTY ADVOCATE, Friday, July 30, 2001

“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.”

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

“You may find me one day dead in a ditch somewhere. But by God, you’ll find me in a pile of brass.”

Tpr. M. Padgett

“Using inner city kids as your proof that guns and kids don’t mix, is like using an alcoholic to prove all people will abuse alcohol.”

Lori Broadhead

“How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless.”

Ted Nugent

The said Constitution [shall] never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe or to prevent the people of the United States from keeping their own arms.”

Samuel Adams, Massachusetts' U.S. Constitution Ratification Convention, 1788

“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.”

Thomas B. Reed (1886)

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”

Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution (1776)

“Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution are courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the constitution THEY don’t like.”

Alan Dershowitz

“Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun to stop a crime.”

Sen. Larry Craig

“The AK-47 is not a device of aggression … I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country,”

Mikhail Kalashnikov, April 1997