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From my Executive Director's Notes that I'll deliver tonight at the Peoria GSL meeting... No Cash Bail UPDATE: Today was the final day of fall veto session. Under extraordinary pressure, Democrats today [will likely vote] on a trailer bill to put a band-aid over the No Cash Bail Act. …
Well, that didn't take long. Oregon's "Ballot Measure 114" enacting all manner of gun control narrowly passed in November. Now, days before it's effective date, the Second Amendment Foundation has filed suit to block its implementation. Measure 114 institutes a permitting process issued by local police to purchase a firearm. …
Most families already feel the pinch of high gas prices. But now, with the weather turning colder, we’ll feel even more pain heating our homes. Thankfully unlike Europe and many other nations, outside of storms or disasters, we remain unlikely to have lengthy utility outages this winter in Illinois. At…
You asked how we did at the Peoria gun buyback. Never ones to disappoint, here's how our day went before we went to Bass Pro. Yes, the do-gooders in Peoria, Illinois offered $200 per gun in a gun buyback event on Saturday, November 19th. Scheduled to run from 10:00a to…
What happens when life hands you a crap sandwich and says "take a bite"? Sometimes good people can do everything right and still have to pull the trigger on a bad person with evil in their hearts. A year ago, such an incident happened in Will County, IL. Sheriff's deputies…
Weapon disarms very frequently result in the loss of the magazine. Just that happened to a carjacker in Chicago who lost his gun during an attempted carjacking. The would-be victim wrested control of the gun and administered some street justice until police arrived to take a freshly tuned up bad…
[caption id="attachment_32820" align="alignnone" width="600"] Jim Durkin. Base image courtesy Illinois Public Radio. Brian Mackey.[/caption] Little Low-T Jimmy Durkin, the state representative who recently resigned his leadership position in the Illinois House is drowning in irrelevancy. There's no oxygen of publicity for a perennial loser. Durkin, who angled his way into…
Talk about utterly humiliating out of the Windy City. Yes, Chicago has a selection of radical crackpots on their city council. One especially glittering jewel of mediocrity in the 25th Ward, Byron Sigcho Lopez claims to "fight for the working people." Little Byron does this by lobbying for defunding the…
by John BochGSL Executive DirectorWell, election day arrived. Someone forgot to tell gun owners though. Not only did we not grow turnout among those who don’t usually vote, roughly 16% of those who voted in 2018’s midterms didn’t show up this time... or perhaps they moved out of state. Polls…
Sometimes people can really become butthurt over their perceived entitlements. Take our old buddy "Ken." We gave him lots and lots of rope and he fashioned his own noose, rhetorically speaking. For many months, he lobbed all manner of defamatory, derogatory, and pejorative comments to stories at Guns Save…
