Cannon still here,Special Ops base now and Melrose bombing range now a training area. It was on BRAC but the bigwigs, both city and state worked and pleaded and got it to stay open. Now spending tons of money modernizing it and expanding as SWOPS are the new prize baby.

I guess I'll just be forced to wait until the DVD comes out if these are the only choices. I can't make the drive up there and a quick check just showed that all the Chicago theaters are posted as "Criminal Protection Zones", otherwise known as so called "Gun Free Zones" where concealed carry is against the law, but where there are no armed guards to keep criminals out.

Few may know the steep felonious penalties that await a legally licensed concealed carrier who gets caught walking past that little sign. But a criminal can walk past it and if they get caught they will face a misnomer. In effect it's just a hand slap for them.

Stepping in a criminal's "target rich environment", like a posted theater, is not a place we'll go and take our families. I take the protection of my family very seriously and consider a GFZ sign to just mean that it's a business that doesn't care about our safety. So we refuse to give them our hard earned dollars. A GFZ means no money from us.

It should also be noted that in Chicago there are over 17,000 people with a CC License. These people tend to be producers since the process to get the license is not cheap, costing over $1,000. The majority of us have taken the pledge to not support businesses that oppose our 2nd Amendment rights and see us as the problem with the high murder rate in this state.