On May 3, 2016, Vandermyde posted the following status message to his Facebook page: "I'm beginning to believe that the Zombie apocalypse might be a benefit to society in thinnning out the herd."

On May 1, 2016, Vandermyde posted the following status message to his Facebook page about the A&E show "Fear the Walking Dead": "So I’ve been watching Fear the Walking Dead. And didn’t want to get into rants about it. But tonight, finally, someone gets it. You see [two armed survivors] who don’t belong on the boat, no debate. No longwinded self-doubting conversation. Bang, head shot from 150-200 yards [from another armed survivor]. Then another. Two tangos down. For once, someone gets it. Bad people are out there and talking does not work with them. Good for him."

On April 25, 2016, Vandermyde posted a meme to his Facebook profile page that featured an image of the heart scan of a dead person with the text "What can i say... New symbol fo the artist formerly known as Prince...... Too soon?" Vandermyde then added his own comment, "Since I was not a Prince fan, this kinda sums it up." The legendary musical artist Prince had died four days earlier.

After legislation was introduced in Illinois state legislature to would allow family members to petition a judge to temporarily remove firearms from a loved one in crisis (because of mental illness, substance abuse, domestic violence, or for some other reason), Vandermyde expressed his opposition. On April 6, 2016, he told NPR, "This here just seems like a recipe for disaster in how to abuse a fundamental, constitutional right."

On March 29, 2016, Vandermyde posted a photo of a young African-American man holding up an extended ammunition magazine beneath a revolver (which does not accommodate detachable magazines) to his Facebook profile page with the comment, "For my non-gun owning FB friends. This is why we don't take gangbangers seriously. And yet wonder how they hit anything at all." The photo provided no evidence that the young man was part of a gang.

On February 23, 2016, Vandermyde posted the following status message to his Facebook profile page: "A lot of people don't get the Trump thing. Here is my take: 1. he says what everybody sitting at the bar is thinking when they watch the news. 2. he dances on political correctness and could not care less. 3. He is the first person on the republican side to paste Hillary square in the face with the one man war on women her husband has waged and didn't back down from it. 4. He's actually out there fighting and pushing back against democrats, the media and the blue blood repubs who ignored the base took them for granted. Its not all that complicated. The party took for granted the conservatives,and never fought back because they never articulated a message because they are still stung from the '95 government shutdown. and at every turn, the GOP goes soft, talks a good game but is like Lucy yanking the football out from Charlie Brown. And this time Charlie decided not to play."

On February 21, 2016, Vandermyde posted the following status message to his Facebook profile page: "So when you clean out your vehicle, my pickup in my case, how much ammo and how many mags do you expect to find in door pockets, under the seat and such?" Vandermyde is the father of two young boys.

On February 13, 2016, Vandermyde posted the following status message to his Facebook profile page: "With the death of [U.S. Supreme Court] Justice [Antonin] Scalia today it will set into motion events and actions. Those actions I fear it will be another tug on the loose thread of the fabric of our nation. Whether or not it unravels the republic is yet to be seen."

On January 25, 2016, Vandermyde posted a meme with the text "I'll tell you what's wrong with society. No one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore." Vandermyde added the following comment: "that just might change a few things in washington and Springfield [the Illinois State Capitol]."

On January 17, 2016, Vandermyde posted the following status message to his Facebook page: "1/2 a bottle of Jack with my good buddy Gary, and up at 4:30 off to SHOT [Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade] Show."

On January 13, 2016, Vandermyde posted the following status message about President Barack Obama to his Facebook page: "state of the union reduced to a campaign stump speach, he makes [Republican presidential candidate] Trump look classy."

On December 7, 2015, Vandermyde posted a photo of a New York Times editorial entitled "The Gun Epidemic" with bullet holes shot through it. He added the caption, "Hey New York Times, I got your editorial right here."

After the Cook County, Illinois Finance Committee approved a tax of five cents per round of centerfire ammunition and one cent per round of rimfire ammunition, in order to raise $320,000 a year for public safety and health programs, Vandermyde immediately threatened a lawsuit. Speaking to the Chicago Tribune on the same day—November 13, 2015—he stated, "It seems interesting that the county wants to go down this road again, because you'll incur even more litigation with a new suit to deal with this issue."

On October 28, 2015, Vandermyde posted a photo of a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) activist holding a sign with a picture of an animal and the text "I am not bacon. I am an individual." Vandermyde added the following comment: "And animal rights/anti-hunting activists, like Katie Cleary wonder why we don't take them seriously."

On October 16, 2015, Vandermyde posted a meme to his Facebook profile page that included a photo of former U.S. Senator from Virginia Jim Webb at one of the 2016 Democratic presidential debates and the text "I haven't been surrounded by this many commies since I was in Vietnam." Vandermyde added the following comment: "Now this is funny."

On September 22, 2015, Vandermyde wrote the following status message on his Facebook profile page: "So for my union brothers, once again the democrats throw the trades under the bus for the enviros. Hillary says no to the Keystone pipeline. And how is she treated for this, the Carpenters [union] endorse[s] her today. Someday the AFL [American Federation of Labor] might want to file domestic battery charges against the Democratic party."

On September 20, 2015, Vandermyde wrote the following status message on his Facebook profile page: "Tonight I saw my first episode of Fear the Walking Dead [on the AMC channel]. If there ever was a reason to have a stash of firearms, this [a zombie apocalypse] was it."

On August 31, 2015, Vandermyde posted a photo to his Facebook profile page of three handguns, two spare ammunition magazines, and a bottle of Heineken beer sitting on a bar top by an outdoor pool. He added the comment, "When u have to strip down before jumping in the pool."

On August 11, 2015, Vandermyde posted the following comment to his Facebook profile page: "Everytime I go by my wife she asks me to scratch her back. How come she never asks me to rub her boobies?"

In 2015, Vandermyde lobbied against a bill in the Illinois state legislature that sought to ban the purchase, sale or trade of items made with ivory. "We do have a federal ban, but state by state if you don't have a place to go to sell it, it does reduce the amount of poaching that's done," explained the bill's sponsor, state Senator Linda Holmes. Her legislation included an exemption for antique weapons containing ivory. Nonetheless, Vandermyde expressed his opposition to the bill, telling Northern Public Radio on April 1, 2015: "I'm really hard-pressed to think of the last time we had a mammoth in the state of Illinois ... They've long been extinct. There's no poaching going on with mammoths."

On August 11, 2015, Vandermyde posted the following comment to his Facebook profile page: "Doritos, french onion dip, and Jim Beam & Diet Coke. I'm self medicating tonight."

On June 22, 2014, Vandermyde posted the following comment to his Facebook profile page: "I want to watch the NASCAR race and all these foreigners want to watch soccer. I think I about incited a riot."

In December 2013, Vandermyde was ticketed by a state conservation officer for having a loaded crossbow with him while he was riding on an all-terrain vehicle during a deer-hunting excursion and he was required to pay a $120 fine. Illinois Wildlife Code requires hunters who use crossbows have to have them in cases whenever they’re driving vehicles, even an ATV. One of the conservation officers who encountered Vandermyde described Vanderymde as exhibiting a “very aggravated and disrespectful tone” toward the officer who questioned him about his crossbow and wrote him the ticket. A month later, Vandermyde worked with House Minority Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) to change the law that he broke. Vandermyde faced criticism from state Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) a gun violence prevention advocate and a lead architect of the state’s same-sex marriage law, who stated, “Look, I like Todd [Vandermyde]. I do, in spite of myself. But if I got a ticket and changed the law because I got a ticket, people would be screaming bloody murder. I don’t think it’s any different when someone with the level of influence and access that he has does it, too.” Vandermyde responded, stating, “[Rep.] Kelly [Cassidy]—or any other legislator—takes on personal issues. I’m sure her vote for gay marriage had nothing to do with fact she’s a lesbian. They all work on pet issues, right.”

In 2013, the Lockport Township Firefighters Local 1544 in Illinois decided to raffle off two guns a month (including a semiautomatic AR-15 assault rifle) as well as gift cards to a local gun shop in order to raise funds for their operation. The executive director of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, Colleen Daley, told the Chicago Tribune on November 1, 2013: "Obviously we appreciate the work that firefighters do. It's just shocking they would choose a firearm rather than other things they could auction off. Why not something else?" In response, Vandermyde called those objecting to this gun raffle (or others) "hoplophobes—people who have an irrational fear of guns." The term "hoplophobia" was made up by former NRA board member Jeff Cooper, a virulent racist/misogynist/homophobe.

In 2013, after lawmakers in Chicago and Cook County, Illinois proposed tougher restrictions on semiautomatic assault weapons and new child-safety lock measures for firearms, Vandermyde launched an ad hominem attack. Speaking to the Chicago Tribune on July 17, 2013, he said, "It's Cook County. You've got an anti-gun majority on the board. You've got an anti-gun president. They think the Second Amendment is a piece of toilet paper. They haven't learned any lessons from Chicago. We'll see what happens."

In October 2012, Vandermyde described a proposed Cook County, Illinois "violence tax" on firearms and ammunition as a "Jim Crow law" in comments to the Chicago Sun-Times.