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Oak Park PD Chief Shatonya Johnson says "gun violence" has no place in her community.  This after a gang shootout during a funeral procession at just after high noon in Oak Park, IL that left four wounded.  And nobody in custody. [caption id="attachment_36832" align="alignnone" width="770"] Oak Park PD Chief Shatonya…

Ladies and Gentlemen!  Meet today's posterchild for Chicago crime without consequences.  Chicago PD has tied Christopher Peters (not the one I went to school with as a child) with a nasty armed robbery.  That crime left a cashier barely surviving bleeding out after getting stabbed repeatedly in the head and…

No, Elkin Castillo, 47, wasn't extra early for church service when Chicago PD found him passed out next to a gun in a church parking lot.  Not on a Tuesday morning.  Who is Elkin Castillo?  He's a "habitual" thug who fears nothing and cares little about societal norms and laws. …

Some folks worry about whether or not they can take their copy of America's favorite rifle, the AR-15, to the range to shoot.  That and other "banned" guns under Gov. J. B. Pritzker's dream gun control legislation that has done nothing (that's spelled n-o-t-h-i-n-g) to stem the blood loss in…

Someone tell Big Brain Brandon that business will create jobs in a pro-business environment.  But with rampant crime - including both violent crime and property crime - businesses don't want to create jobs in Chicago.  In fact, they're heading for the doors. Even the big retailers like Walmart (who was…

Illinois braced pistol owners who attempted to register their braced firearms during the ATF's "grace period" have a new problem.  F-troop is rejecting all of the applications that didn't include copies of their FOID cards. Yep. So, folks, read the instructions.  Submit a new paper application within 60 days.  Include…

Glock "switches" have become the ultimate status symbol among gang bangers across the nation.  And now, the feds finally found someone they were willing to charge for the crime.  A 19-year-old man from Cahokia Heights near East St. Louis has found himself in the Biden Justice Department crosshairs for ordering…

This past week, the City of Dixon, Illinois renamed the street in front of Dixon High School the "Mark Dallas Way." The name change is to honor a heroic school resource officer who stopped a would-be mass murderer from shooting up a high school graduation practice five years ago. Mark…

Member Janice Beasley, aka Liberty Walsh in the Cowboy world, sent a great photo of her working the targets at a Cowboy Action shoot. With it, she sent a letter asking if we could run a female on the front cover that isn’t holding a semi-auto rifle. And who isn’t…

by Justin Thyme, a GSL member “Guns are killing our young people at an alarming rate.” I read this quote in a newspaper. Twenty-five years ago. Blaming an inanimate object for the deeds of an evil-doer is oftentimes nothing more than psychological deflection. The message of the anti-gun crowd is…