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Todd Vandermyde, the Illinois Gun Law Guru and former NRA-ILA contract lobbyist for Illinois, takes a look at the new Illinois Firearm Ban Act.  In it, he makes the case for how the Remington 870, America's favorite shotgun with 11+ million in circulation, is illegal under the new law. "Huh?"…

Bad news from the US District Court in Southern Illinois.  The ISRA's lawsuit Anderson v. Raoul challenging the Land of Lincoln's ban on suppressors has been stayed for 90 days.  Here's the docket entry from Court Listener. ORDER STAYING CASE: This case was filed on February 27, 2023. On February…

So while in Georgia on vacation in recent days, I saw a sign for a "drug and gun" store.  The billboard intrigued me.  I wondered if they had tobacco and liquor there, as many of the drug stores here in Illinois stock.  Because, after all, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms sounds…

This may not sit well with some of our law enforcement friends, by we at GSL strongly recommend you never, ever consent to a police search of your person, your car or your home.  NOTHING GOOD can come of consenting to a search, but it comes with plenty of potential…

This one is from 2019, but it's still a classic.  Don't don a mask, grab a gun and try to pull a home invasion armed robbery at 4am and you might not get killed.  But that's not what the families of three dead perps have learned from the deaths of…

The Illinois Firearms Ban Act bans a whole lot more guns than most people think...  Todd Vandermyde, the Gun Santa, or "gun law guru" or former NRA lobbyist discusses just how much more inclusive the legislation really is in these two videos. We strongly recommend subscribing to his "Freedom's Steel"…

Three rabidly anti-gun Tennessee state representatives used a bullhorn and led protests on the chamber floor last week after the New Covenant School killing spree.  Now, the leaders of the Tennessee House are moving to expel those three members for “knowingly and intentionally bring(ing) disorder and dishonor to the” body.…

So leave it to Governor JB Pritzker to offer his flawed thoughts on the Second Amendment.  First, he claims without citing any evidence in support of it that there are "limits" to the Second Amendment.  No, we aren't talking about grenade-launching machine guns either.  Not only that, but towards the…

On Saturday, we reported on Thomas Maag's court win from March enjoining the Illinois State Police from suspending the FOID cards of those arrested in Illinois.  We warned Pritzker and his gun hating buddies that if they keep poking the bear, we're going to take a wrecking ball to the…

The two newest Illinois Supreme Court justices Democrats Mary Kay O'Brien and Elizabeth Rochford each accepted at least $1M each from J.B. Pritzker in the last election cycle.  They also each accepted six-figures in cash from House Speaker Chris Welch's cash prize closet.  Meanwhile, both Pritzker and Welch are named…