Participate

Opportunities for member participation

The ISRA has a few basic means for member participation:

1. Training and shooting events – these are available at our ISRA Range facility near Kankakee as well as a growing number of events available state-wide. Check our ISRA Range Calendar as well as the ISRA Events Calendar.

2. Participate in statewide and local legislative activities. This can be answering the alert to make calls to your legislators, submitting witness slips when requested, or attending important events like IGOLD (Illinois Gun Owner Lobby Day).

3. Attend local ISRA meetings where available. There are local meetings in select locations around the state, contact the ISRA office if you are interested in having / sponsoring a meeting in your area!

Currently meetings are held in these locations: (Check the ISRA Events Calendar and social media for locations and updates.)

South Suburban Cook County Townhall – Orland Park, IL – Moved for March and on!
Join us in the nearby new location, same meeting, same hosts!
2nd Thursday of each month,
Papa Joe’s Restaurant, 14459 LaGrange Rd, Orland Park
Doors open 6pm; Meeting 7pm – 8pm

Northwest Suburban Townhall – Algonquin IL
3rd Tuesday of each month,
Golden Corral, 1591 S Randall Rd,
Doors open 6pm; Meeting 7pm – 8pm

Will County Townhall – Elwood IL
3rd Wednesday of each month,
Silver Dollar Restaurant, 422 E. Mississippi Ave.
Doors open 6pm; Meeting 7pm – 8pm

Livingston County Townhall – Streator IL
4th Tuesday of each month,
South Post Guns, 104 Livingston Rd.
Social 1/2 Hour 6pm – 6:30pm; Meeting 6:30pm

Madison County Townhall – East Alton
1st Wednesday of the month,
Piasa Armory, 625 Lewis and Clark Blvd.
Doors open 6:15pm; Meeting starts 6:30pm

4. Help the ISRA financially by making a much needed donation.

“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,”

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