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[caption id="attachment_15153" align="alignnone" width="720"] New recruits attend their New York Police Academy graduation ceremony, Monday Dec. 29, 2014, at Madison Square Garden in New York. Nearly 1000 officers were sworn in as tensions between city hall and the NYPD continued following the Dec. 20 shooting deaths of officers Rafael Ramos…

Good guys with guns are the only thing that stops bad people with evil in their hearts from destroying innocent lives. Yes, Virginia, the most effective thing that stops a bad guy with a weapon of some sort and evil in his or her heart is a good guy with…

The January 2015 issue of GunNews is posted and available. Dig in. If you would like to receive GunNews in the mail each month, at least a week or two before it's available online, sign up today for a membership in Guns Save Life.  We'd love to have you and…

You think you'll be safe in Chicago if you just hang out in the touristy, supposedly "safe", areas of the city? Think again, Buttercup. The random violence and criminal activity infects every nook and cranny in Chicago, but especially areas like the "NO GUNS" allowed Navy Pier, where gaggles of…

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives and really big fires can't seem to get it's brace screwed on straight. Earlier in 2014, it issued at least two compliance letters (903050, 99146) indicating that use of the Sig Support Brace in any configuration is completely and perfectly legal because "using…

  On Christmas Eve eve, 14-year-old Keontre Reese decided to go do some Christmas shopping in a residential neighborhood in Oklahoma City. Young Keontre wasn't taking a break from his entrance exam to Harvard, nor was he retrieving some medicine from the store for his sick mother. No, he was…

  [caption id="attachment_15118" align="alignnone" width="550"] Note the "NO GUNS" signage on the left column.[/caption]   Once again, criminals ignore "NO GUNS" signs that leave the law-abiding defenseless. But to anti-gun Democrats, we couldn't function as a society without all of those prohibited locations. (CBS) – A shooting at a CTA…

For the second night in a row, "Black Lives Matter" protesters created disturbances and trouble in and near Berkeley, Missouri after an 18-year-old black thug who drew a gun on a white cop was shot dead. It doesn't matter what color your skin is, if you unlawfully pull a gun…

The Tuesday, January 6th meeting in Pontiac, IL will feature the NRA-ILA's man in the Illinois Capitol as the primary speaker. Todd's going to talk about his recent hunting trip to Africa to help support conservation there. He'll also give members and friends present a first-hand, direct from the horse's…

[caption id="attachment_15106" align="alignnone" width="600"] Charles DiRosa (Photo credit Chicopee police) via CBS Boston.[/caption]   Other times, they label themselves rather nicely. CHICOPEE (CBS) — A Chicopee man is facing charges after posting “Put Wings on Pigs” to Facebook, police say. Chicopee police said Monday that local residents alerted them to…