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By Mike Keleher Amid manufactured fanfare, Dick’s Sporting Goods opened a new store in Gurnee, IL on Friday, May 26th in the Gurnee Mills Outlet Mall. They have been working on it for months. Banners and flags were posted. A Chicago celebrity sports figure was contracted to sign autographs…
Photo Credit: //commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30214051 By Mike Keleher The pending sale of 8,000 surplus U.S. Army M1911 and M1911A1 pistols has of course been quite well documented across the gun media, and shooters and collectors have been waiting since rumors broke out in 2015 such a sale could happen. The Civilian Marksmanship…
Photo/Graphic Credit: KUTV Baltimore By Mike Keleher The FBI just issued a new report which reported statistics gathered with Active Shooter incidents in the United States between 2016 and 2017. They cited 50 such incidents in that two-year period and 40 incidents in the 2014-2015-time frame. One of the most…
By Mike Keleher History and firearms buffs have been waiting patiently for two or more years for the actual release dates and possibly more importantly, the prices for the anticipated slake of WWII era surplus .45 ACP pistols by the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP). CMP sales have typically been quite…
Photo Credit: JP Rifles.com By Mike Keleher The new competition kid in town, Pistol Caliber Carbine (PCC), which uses lightweight carbine length firearms primarily in 9mm, .40 S&W and .45 ACP has sprouted up almost overnight. The evolution of how PCC came to be so popular is a bit…
By Mike Keleher The anti-gun agenda continues to make daily headlines, and if you would believe the news, the left is making great strides towards changing gun laws and demonizing AR-15 carbines in the wake of the recent school shooting in Florida and some other people committing crimes with firearms.…
Photo Credit: CNN.com By Mike Keleher On Valentine’s Day 2018, we all watched in horror as the media reports started rolling in about an awful school shooting in Parkland FL at a large high school. Seventeen dead and at least 14 injured in another spree conducted in a gun free…
By Mike Keleher Chicago Police Commander Paul Bauer was gunned down Tuesday, February 13, 2018 in the middle of the day, outside the Illinois Thompson Center by a four-time convicted felon who was purportedly wearing body armor. Chicago Police tried to speak to the suspect on the street, but he…
Photo Credit: Wikipedia.org By Mike Keleher On February 01, 2018, the Illinois Supreme Court released their verdict in The People of Illinois vs Julio Chairez and struck down a statute banning possession of a firearm 1000 feet from parks within the State of Illinois. Chairez was arrested in Kane…
Blog by Mike Keleher The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) released an email today, January 29, 2018 on the status of the WWII era 1911 pistols which will be released by the US Army to the CMP program for sale to qualified civilian buyers. Apparently, 8,000 pistols have been transferred but…