Guns Save Life and our magnificent, selfless members donated $21,153 to the fight against Gov. Pritzker’s gun and magazine ban in courts. The amount stands as over double our largest previous grant of roughly $10,300 to the Central Illinois Precision Shooters’ indoor range in Bloomington about ten years ago.
$21,156 doesn’t sound like a lot? Well, as a proportion of our annual operating budget, it represents a huge outlay for the small-but-mighty Guns Save Life. To put that into perspective, the Illinois State Rifle Association has an operating budget just over 12.5 times the size of GSL. So GSL writing a check for $21,153 to the FFL-IL legal defense fund as part of the Illinois Gun Rights Alliance stands as the equivalent of the Illinois State Rifle Association writing a check for $264,500 to the legal fight. Or, for those keeping tally, the National Rifle Association cutting a check for roughly $42 million. In other words, it’s HUGE for us.
As far as we can tell, ISRA’s only chipped in $50,000 to the fight, according to statements made by SAF’s Alan Gottlieb. We formally challenge them to break out the checkbook and match our expenditure as a proportion of their annual budget.
We were turned onto the info about ISRA’s legal funding by a reader of Illinois Carry who noticed these two posts:
Todd Vandermyde at IC:
I would remind you that SAF is covering all of the ISRA fees in there suit. Where as this little band of rebels is having to fund their own suit to address the issues we think important, and once filed I can talk about those more openly. Just like the way we go after the mag stuff, others here have caught on to a few issues, but like that guy used to say on their infomercial — but wait there’s more. . .
“This little band of rebels” he’s referring to is the Illinois Gun Rights Alliance.
Yeti at IC:
For what it is worth, Alan Gottlieb says that the ISRA did donate $50,000 to the SAF to support lawsuits here at about 17:50.
Since last Thursday’s meeting, we’ve processed another $1940 in checks and cash to this legal fight. This despite telling people not to send us money, but to give directly to the FFL-IL fund for our Illinois attorneys and the Second Amendment Law Center for the California heavy-hitters backstopping our Illinois legal teams. Again, it doesn’t sound like a lot, but that sort of coin to us is the equivalent of ISRA handling another $25,000 in pledged money.
We’ll be sending that $1940 along with monies from our LaSalle County and Chicagoland meetings to the legal fight after the board formally approves the expenditure at the last Thursday meeting in February.
Thank you to all who have helped in this endeavor. You’re doing a great thing and we’re going to get proven results with your donations. And we appreciate your trust and confidence in us to do the right thing.
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