GunNews

  by John Boch President, Guns Save Life Originally published in the December 2011 issue of GunNews. As 2011 winds down, I’d like to thank each of our members for their contributions, both large and small, to our fine organization and its mission advocating for civil rights for all Americans. It’s been a wonderful...
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by John Boch, GSL President (GunNews) – Illinois’ excessive and oppressive gun laws impede new shooters taking up safe and fun shooting sports, not to mention deriving the potential life-saving benefits of firearm ownership. By educating more of our state’s residents, we can change attitudes and laws.  To affect that end, we should exploit...
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  Tom Shafer addressed the SCRA meeting audience and began by passing around an extended Glock magazine, sold locally at Gander Mountain.  He also brought his Glock 19.  Both were just like the ones used by the would-be assassin ....
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by John Boch If you’re ever within an hour or two of Evansville, Indiana on the last Saturday of the month, I invite you to check out the Second Amendment Patriots meeting. Like Guns Save Life, the 2nd Amendment Patriots turn out scores of high quality, very friendly people who share a passion for...
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  Main Speaker Gunnery Sergeant Carl Greenwood, USMC, Retired Excerpted from the March 2012 issue of GunNews. The charismatic Korean War Veteran Gunnery Sergeant Carl Greenwood, USMC, Retired took the microphone as our main speaker. He started with a bit about himself.  “I got my first .22 rifle at three years of age.  My...
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  Burma sign work report September 19, 2012   At Guns Save Life, we do more before noon than most gun rights / civil rights organizations do all day.  Six GSL members came out and volunteered to do the grunt labor required to make our Burma-Shave style signs available for the education of the...
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  Resolved… Guns Save Life opposes “May issue” carry proposals for Illinois WHEREAS, Guns Save Life is a civil rights educational organization, dedicated to preserving and promoting the fundamental right of all Americans to keep and bear arms for defense of self, their families, and their property, from attacks by criminals, and from any...
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From the February 2012 issue of GunNews (Guns Save Life) – At the January meeting, GSL President John Boch brought up the story from New Year’s Eve of Sarah McKinley from Blanchard, OK.  This 18-year-old mother lost her husband to cancer on Christmas Day 2011 and less than a week later, two opportunistic, armed...
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  Chicago (GunNews) – How bad has the rampant violence plaguing Chicago gotten? It’s bad enough that the Chicago Sun-Times published a lengthy, shocking expose on how even Chicago’s Alderman are frightened by Chicago’s spiraling violent crime in general, and their own constituents in their districts  in particular. Chicago’s Aldermen have long been privileged...
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Sangamon County Rifle Association Guest Speaker Don Gwinn Don Gwinn began his presentation with a rousing analysis of the state of gun control in America today. He said a headline in The Onion summed things up nicely:  “Obama gives bold speech on gun control, alone, quietly, in his office with the lights off”. Gwinn...
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