YOUR MAILBOX NEEDS THIS: GunNews. August 2026 edition.
In a world that seems determined to disarm you, distract you, and leave you holding the bag when things go sideways, GunNews is the monthly paper that refuses to play along. It’s not another glossy magazine full of pretty pictures and corporate ads. It’s the hard-hitting, no-BS journal from Guns…
FOR ALL THE MARBLES: Amici briefs needed…
by John Boch My fellow GSL members and our friends, the fight of our lifetimes is here — and freedom itself is on the line. Guns Save Life, alongside our co-plaintiffs in the landmark FFL-IL v. Illinois challenge to PICA, is filing Amicus Curiae briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court…
RED DOT ARMS: The Process Is the Punishment
Red Dot Arms is getting crushed, and it’s not because they broke the law. It’s because the process itself is the punishment. Mike Rioux’s family-owned shop in Lake Villa has been a federally licensed dealer since 2012. On February 13, 2020, they transferred a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 to…
CMP Announces Future Sales of M14 Rifles to Civilians
One of the biggest news stories for shooters and collectors showed up late this week, when the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) announced surplus U.S. military M14 rifles in 7.62 x 51 mm will be made available for sale to qualified American citizens. According to the CMP, the rifles are expected…
Let’s Get Ready to Rumble! Supreme Court Signals a Looming Showdown Over Gun and Magazine Ban Laws as Federal Appeals Courts Split on the Same Issue This Month!
The debate over so-called "assault weapon" bans and magazine capacity restrictions has reached a critical moment. In a move that could reshape Second Amendment jurisprudence for decades, the U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to review a challenge involving Cook County, Illinois' assault weapons ban, signaling that the Court is finally…
RED ALERT: PICA Ban Ruling Released… We lose (for now…)
The TL;DR version: We lose. For now. But frankly, this half-assed analysis used by Frank Easterbrook and Amy St. Eve may well help in the US Supreme Court's analysis in the upcoming Viramontes case that SCOTUS accepted all of ten days ago. My hot take is that Easterbrook wanted to…
BUSTED! At last, Champaign County Democrat ‘Power Couple’ – & daughter – busted by feds
State Representative Carol Ammons (D-Urbana), the Bernie Sanders-endorsed Democrat Socialist and rabid gun-grabber who co-sponsored PICA — Illinois’ unconstitutional assault weapons and magazine ban — has been indicted by a federal grand jury along with her husband, Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons. Along with their daughter Tatianna. While Ammons loudly…
Power outages and post-storm reality: GunNews prep lessons hit close to home
(A letter to the editor we shared in the June issue of GunNews)... Last month in GunNews, you covered emergency preparations for storm season as part of one of your speakers at a meeting. Well, Mother Nature delivered a serious test last Thursday [June 11]. A major storm system ripped…
Dillard drops wisdom from Florida training
We know a whole lot of gun owners in Illinois are “thirty rounds every five years” kind of shooters. Sadly that includes some GSL members. If that describes you, you’re relying on hope and luck to overcome a potential lethal threat. Pro-tip: Hope has no survival value. At our GSL…
A Flag That Still Fought Back
Last night at Maranatha Church in Decatur, before an exceptional fireworks show lit up the sky, I stood with roughly 16 fellow Americans and received one of the greatest solemn honors of my life: helping hold a massive 10x20 flag retired from the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. As…