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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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Empowering First Shots 2025 (1300 x 600 px)
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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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Thursday Bulletin – May 22, 2025

May 22, 2025

Executive Director’s Message Richard Pearson A Right Delayed Is A Right Denied ISRA Condemns State Police Suspension of 2A Rights in Illinois The ISRA learned that the Illinois State Police, using their unconstitutional FOID card system, decided to suspend 2nd Amendment rights in Illinois for 26 hours.  On Tuesday, May 20th at 2pm, the ISP shut off access to the FOID card portal for firearms sellers until 4pm the next day.  So, for 26 hours, FOID card holders were not able to purchase ammunition in Illinois since ISP requires the seller to verify that your card is still valid.  Additionally, the majority of firearms dealers that we talked to said they were unable to sell firearms during this time as well. Make no mistake, what's being labeled as "system maintenance" was a suspension of Illinois citizen's 2nd Amendment rights.  When the issues caused by this shutdown were brought to the...

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ISRA Condemns ISP Suspension of 2A Rights

May 20, 2025

ISRA Condemns State Police Suspension of 2A Rights in Illinois   The ISRA has learned that the Illinois State Police, using their unconstitutional FOID card system, have decided to suspend 2nd Amendment rights in Illinois for 26 hours. Later today at 2pm, the ISP will be shutting off access to the FOID card portal for firearms sellers. They don't anticipate restoration of rights until 4pm tomorrow. So for 26 hours, FOID card holders will not be able to purchase ammunition in Illinois since ISP requires the seller to verify that your card is still valid. Additionally, the majority of firearms dealers that we talked to said they would be unable to sell firearms during this time as well.   Make no mistake, what's being labeled as "system maintenance" is a suspension of Illinois citizen's 2nd Amendment rights. When the issues caused by this shutdown were brought to the attention of the ISP, they decided...

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IGOLD 2025 News Coverage

May 17, 2025

(Greg Bishop - The Center Square) – Illinois gun owners are highlighting cases they’ve brought in the court against current Illinois laws and legislation they say would continue to take away their rights. Wednesday was Illinois Gun Owner Lobby Day in Springfield, where several hundred gun owners took to a convention center to hear from Illinois State Rifle Association’s Richard Pearson. He said the state’s gun ban challenge continues in the appeals court. “Doesn’t matter who wins, doesn't matter who loses. Whoever wins will be happy. Whoever loses will appeal it to the [United States] Supreme Court,” Pearson told those gathered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zTh-uXet_0 There are other lawsuits pending against various other Illinois laws. Read the whole article at The Center Square   [caption id="attachment_9867" align="alignnone" width="393"] Image (c) Greg Bishop - The Center Square[/caption]

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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