We have a thread about the following in in Illinois hometown Forum:


A handicapped man from suburban Chicago was arrested and charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. Chris Morley, a long-time and well-liked supporter of gun rights in Illinois, has been carrying his unloaded pistol for nearly a decade – ever since a law was passed to allow this form of carry/transport/

Suffering from cerebral palsy and depending on a cane to walk, Chris Morley has been the would-be target of muggers numerous times. On these three or four occasions, merely reaching for his unloaded firearm was enough to scare the attackers away and possibly save his life.

Morley was not feeling well at work on a Monday, however, and had a coworker help him to an empty room to rest and feel better. As a matter of policy, paramedics were called. But not only did the paramedics arrive, but police in full tactical gear arrived too!

Morley’s personal belongings had been searched without warrant or probable cause and his unloaded pistol in his Maxpedition case had been exposed. Instead of going home as he planned after falling ill, Morley was on his way to a Chicago Police Dept. lockup! He was handcuffed to a wall for a few hours, processed, photographed, fingerprinted, stripped of clothes and belongings including his cane and glasses. Morley could not walk or see.

During his arrest, the police even had the nerve to accuse him of being drunk – at approx 10:00 AM in the morning. Morley has a speech impediment due to his condition, but as often happens the police assumed the wrong thing. Meanwhile, locked up in his rubber cell for over twelve hours, Morley listened as the prison guards watched movie clips on YouTube, feature film Walk the Line, news, late-night replays of Oprah and Doctor Phil, and finally the morning news came on. Morley’s wife, parents, and other loved-ones had no idea where he was.

Morley was finally released tuesday afternoon on and I-bond and walked a few miles to a commuter train station to return home.

A week later, several officers of the Illinois State Police, accompanied by 2 Chicago Police Detectives came to Morley's house in the suburbs and confiscated more than a dozen legally owned firearms, contending that they had found "written threats to coworkers" in Morley's desk at work.

Clearly, Morley is being railroaded by the gun-hating Chicago Machine in retaliation for his years of gun rights activism.
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A good friend of mine, Shaun Kranish, runs a new website called www.gunownersfellowship.com. He's helping me to raise money for my defense.


If you can help, you can send a check payable to Walter Maksym (my attorney) to:

Gun Owners Fellowship
605 Fulton Avenue
Rockford, IL 61103

The donation will be recorded and forwarded to Atty Walter Maksym, who has successfully defended a number of gun rights cases here in northern Illinois.


Another way would be to paypal money to fellowship@icarry.org and put in there that the money is for my defense (chris morley. Shaun will then record the donation for chris and direct-deposit it into Walter Maksym's bank account.

Thanks for your help.

Christopher Morley