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Illinois: Your Legislators Need to Hear From You on Pro-Gun and Pro-Hunting Legislation During the 2015 session, your NRA-ILA has patiently waited for the Illinois General Assembly to move bills and address certain issues of concern to our members and gun owners.  However, not a single pro-gun bill has received…

The Boy Scouts of America have come down hard on boys being boys with their latest announcement banning water gun fights, and prohibiting a long list of "weapons" including marshmallow guns. And when making water balloons, they should be made with bio-degradeable balloons (since when was latex not bio-degradeable?) and…

Guns Save Life Chicago! Saturday, May 30th Oak Lawn VFW Johnson - Phelps Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5220 9514 S 52nd Ave Oak Lawn, IL 60453 Dinner and conversation begin around 4pm. Meeting business at 5:30pm. [caption id="attachment_16054" align="alignnone" width="600"] GSL Vice-President Adrienne Logue.[/caption] Guns Save Life is bringing…

Three yutes sneak into a nice home in South Africa, bringing knives to a gun fight they didn't yet know they were going to experience.   After all, owning guns in South Africa is very difficult, to say the least. The homeowner here, Craven Coetzee, was sound asleep in bed -…

For The Children! by Frank Sharpe Fortress Defense Consultants Fortress just finished up a private Level I Rifle Course in the western part of the US. Weather was intense with cold and sideways sheets of rain, but our students came to work and much was accomplished! Per our policy, we…

[caption id="attachment_16773" align="alignnone" width="600"] Good old Jug Ears in Camden, NJ.[/caption] Like many, initially I thought Barack Hussein Obama was merely supremely incompetent. I've grown to believe that he's devilishly smart.  It's not incompetence, but an overarching strategy to bring America down in the world.  Obama doesn't believe in American…

[caption id="attachment_16767" align="alignnone" width="620"] Pity Poor DC 4-star Chief of police Cathy Lanier. "Constitution? We don't need no steekin' Constitution!"[/caption]   It looks as though "shall issue" shall be the law of the land sooner than later. Alan Gura won yet another case which struck down the "good cause" requirement…

Phone calls to downstate Illinois Democrat Senators aren't working to Senate President John Cullerton to motivate him to allow pro-gun and pro-hunting bills a fair chance to be heard in committee.   Yes, one man, Cullerton, is serving to block these bills. It's time to ratchet up the pressure in…

[caption id="attachment_16755" align="alignnone" width="600"] Roy and his daughter at the Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day in March 2015.[/caption] Roy K. is the man behind Days of our Trailers, a pro-gun blog read by a who's who in the gun rights community.  He's been a great friend to Guns Save Life…

Photos and story by John Boch Click on the photos for larger images. (Winamac, IN) - Live Free USA, the nation’s oldest survival and preparedness group, held its annual Camp Independence event at Tippecanoe River State Park near Winamac, IN on Saturday, May 16th.  It was a big success, as…