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NBC Chicago trumpets the story of supposed police oppression in true mainstream media style: Blacks in Chicago are more likely to be subjected to a "stop and frisk" by police than any other race, a report by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois indicates. The report, released Monday, also…
Guns Save Life is known for it's road-side signs along Illinois Interstates and highways proclaiming pro-gun messages to over a half-million people each and every day. We took to delivering our message directly to our fellow Americans after a local billboard company declined to sell us billboard space, citing our…
Illinois Carry reports on a series of bills we need to file witness slips either as opponents or as proponents. Some are bills that were rescheduled from earlier weeks. Others are newer bills. Thanks in advance for taking a moment to fill these out. As of Sunday evening, the slip…
A quartet of society's garbage decided they would try to pull off some home invasions in Joplin, Missouri bright and early on a Monday morning. Give them credit for going to work early in the work week. Sadly though, for this bunch of social misfits, the "job" then went to…
[caption id="attachment_16036" align="alignnone" width="620"] Two men were shot dead right there in this Austin neighborhood in Chicago. [/caption] With a total of 11 homicides and 39 additional people shot and wounded - just since last Sunday, plenty of Chicago residents are on edge about what the summer has in…
Here's something to brighten up your weekend, unless you're Rahm Emanuel or Father "Snuffy" Phleger! Guns Save Life is known for it’s popular and ever-growing monthly grassroots meetings in several cities in downstate Illinois. With consistent regular turnout between fifty and two hundred fifty people at our meeting locations, it’s…
The 2015 Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day event was held Wednesday, March 18th in Springfield. Roughly 1500 gun owners from throughout Illinois turned out to spend the day as full-time gun rights activists, rallying, marching, lobbying and making themselves known to the members of the Illinois General Assembly. The event…
It's gone from bad to worse in Chicago, with criminal violence spiraling out of control, thanks in part to generations of strict gun control and, of course, the Great Society programs that replaced fathers with checks from Uncle Sam. With gangs replacing father-figures in the lives of many poor, inner…
by John Boch My lovely bride and I were out yesterday with a couple thousand of our nearest and dearest friends at the Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day. When we checked our email on the way home, it was chock full of messages about a Coalition to Stop Gun Ownership…
by John Boch In November 2014, I wrote about Guns & Ammo gushing over Taurus' new offering "The Curve" in a story here at Guns Save Life titled, "TAURUS TURD: Guns & Ammo loves Taurus’ new Taurus Curve, a curved .380 pocket pistol". Guns & Ammo's staff raved about the…