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Tell the City Fathers (and City Mothers) in Peoria 'THANK YOU' for their misguided gun buyback program last November.  The point of the program was to "take back the streets."  As if buying unwanted guns from law-abiding gun owners will allow do-gooders to "take back" anything.  Since we sometimes can't…

Each year, the Illinois State Police solicit grant requests from law enforcement agencies around the state to perform “firearm enforcement” activities. Translation: the ISP pays for local LEOs to conduct "compliance checks"...confiscating guns from those who fall out of compliance with the Illinois FOID Act. While this story isn’t the…

Dan Caulkins' attorney Jerry Stocks is hitting back at the Illinois State Police claim that a court ruling striking down a law as unconstitutional is somehow not applicable to the entire state. Todd Vandermyde over at Freedom's Steel on YouTube indicated that the Illinois State Police took action against one…

Appalled by Chicago Public Schools allowing a convicted murderer to work as a “trusted adult” around school children each day on one of the "Safe Passage" routes in the City, GSL’s John Boch contacted the CPS Communications office and asked, in writing, how many drug dealers, child sex offenders and…

Late Thursday, the Illinois State Police took the position that the Macon County judgement is only good for the named parties in the action.  This flies in the face of the text of the final judgement issued by the Macon County judge a few weeks ago. Here's the new "FAQ"…

We've got good news. Guns Save Life continues to grow. We're coming to Danville on the Second Monday of each month starting in June. Ela's Restaurant, 1111 E Voorhees St, Danville, IL 61832. Jack Land has stepped into the role as our Danville Regional Director. And in Quincy, we're putting together…

Each year the Army Marksmanship Unit (AMU) invites the top junior shooters from all over the US to compete in a National Air Rifle match at the Fort Benning Georgia. To get an invite, shooters have to compete in a 60-shot standing air rifle match. Competitors submit scores individually or…

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is Kingby Desiderius Erasmus, a GSL member The numbers are pretty dismal. The U.S. Department of Justice reported over 1.03 million home invasions and 1.25 million cases of violent crime in 2022. Most do not get the press that they deserve.…

Don't break into someone's residence and you won't risk them shooting you dead.  That's the moral of the story from Battle Creek, Michigan after a 40-year-old man left this mortal coil prematurely after playing the role of the Big, Bad Wolf.   In this case, Little Red Riding Hood had herself…

People had to run a gauntlet of Antifa thugs to attend a free speech event at UC Davis in California Tuesday night.  Police held most of the fascist mob away.  That didn't stop the masked black-bloc Antifa boys and girls from using violence against those in attendance.  The authorities had…