Armed citizens should exercise extreme reticence before inserting themselves into conflicts involving third parties, including active deadly force incidents involving police and criminals. The same prudent hesitation you would apply to any third-party conflict applies to police-involved situations—only more so. You’re risking a great deal, and you must be dead…

We talk about turning lemons into lemonade routinely here at Guns Save Life.  After all, we live in Illinois.   But imagine turning banana pudding into felony murder.  How senseless would that be?  Yet for some illiterate gang thugs in Florida, that's just what happened.  And now one is crying the…

Giffords, originally launched to advance the cause of gun control after the 2011 shooting of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, has clearly broadened its scope of operations. This week the civilian disarmament operation demanded a "full, transparent, and independent investigation" into the fatal shooting of 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an…

Tired of watching your Second Amendment rights get treated like optional extras in Washington? Meet Jeff Wilson—Navy submarine veteran, nuclear engineer, Champaign County Board member, and unapologetic pro-gun constitutional federalist who’s running hard to flip Illinois’ 13th District and send anti-gun incumbent Nikki Budzinski packing. Wilson doesn’t just talk the…

In the heart of the Midwest, Chicago’s streets tell a grim tale. In 2025 the city recorded roughly 15 murders for every 100,000 residents—three times the rate of the entire state of Florida. The year before, the gap was even wider: Chicago’s rate sat near 21.5, almost four times Florida’s…

by Nick Klementzos In the great state of Illinois, our benevolent overlords in Springfield don’t trust you — the unwashed, gun-clinging bitter clingers — with the most effective tools for protecting your family. Thanks to PICA (the Protect Illinois Criminals Act), they’ve banned the good stuff while criminals laugh and…

Mark Twain famously observed that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. In modern Illinois, add one more: violent crime that our genius politicians treat like an unfortunate weather pattern they can’t control. Most of us will dodge the bad guys. None of us dodge the dirt nap.…

  Our September GSL meeting in Springfield is relocating to the Air Combat Museum. Scheels closes early for Labor Day, so instead of settling for the usual cancellation for the holiday, we’re moving the meeting to the 8th and stepping into living history. You’ll stand beside two of the greatest…

Quote of the Day Here is a Reddit user openly calling for the systematic punishment of tens of millions of his fellow Americans simply for voting the wrong way. He demands loyalty oaths, permanent disenfranchisement, mass asset seizures, imprisonment, political purges, economic strangulation of red states, and the “rehabilitation” of…

By Eric North (GSL) - Folks, if you’ve ever stared down a finished basement full of water, spoiled food, and melting ice cream while the power company shrugs and says “maybe Tuesday,” you know the sweet relief of a generator that actually runs when the lights go out. I just…