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Valinda Rowe, the Illinois Carry spokesman, met with the Illinois State Police a couple of weeks ago, along with Richard Pearson from the Illinois State Rifle Association.   Mrs. Rowe's first impressions of the meeting were very positive. In fact, from her post at Illinois Carry, you would have thought she…

It's a very small statistical sample, from a very dubious source, but they make a point. Hopefully their research is better than their knowledge of how to get a proper grip on a pistol. Study Finds That Chicago Criminals Get Guns From Friends, Family Not acquired from gun shows or…

The National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action has long ignored the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Ownership's repeated encouragement for their unhinged followers to call police when they see someone with a gun in public. Their reckless advice endangers not only the person(s) with a gun, but other innocents…

by John Boch Chicago is seeing similar patterns of sharply rising violent crime this year, like many other cities across America.  The Obama regime's pattern of attacking local police while martyring street criminals has led to police pulling back from aggressive law enforcement and bad guys becoming more brazen. Much…

One lucky kid will win a .22 rifle! That's right:  It's YOUTH NIGHT! at Guns Save Life's September 8th meeting in Champaign, IL. The address:  Fluid Events Center, 601 N. Country Fair Drive, Champaign, IL 61821. We're slated to have an archery range, one or more shooting simulators and a…

They's purdy smart at that USA Today. After six plus years of record gun sales following would-be gun grabber Barack Obama's election in 2008, they've finally found reporters smart enough to put two and two together when it comes to the reason behind gun sales. Calls for gun control merely…

Someone should ask Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart about his priorities. He's got the manpower and resources to invest in a months-long investigation that has culminated in a handful of arrests for simple prostitution and soliciting prostitution while forty-five people have been shot and thirteen people have been murdered in…

It's interesting how there were no shootings or criminal violence at last year's Second Amendment Foundation Gun Rights Policy Conference where there were lots of concealed carry licensees (otherwise known as card-carrying good guys) in attendance. Unfortunately, Chicago doesn't have daily NRA conventions across the entire city, given yesterdays horrific…

When you go sticking guns in peoples' faces in Detroit, sooner or later you're going to encounter a person who is down for a struggle. That's what happened to a 17-year-old punk in the cesspool that is Detroit as he tried to rob a 24-year-old man of his sunglasses. What…

The grief-stricken father of the reporter killed by the homosexual angry black man last week has launched a personal crusade not against  the hate-filled, violent rhetoric of the Left in America, but instead upon Americans' God-given right to gun ownership. What's his first act going to be as a new…