We Defend Your Right to Defend Yourself
By Keith PippinGrowing up an Army brat in the 70s, I spent time around guns and shooting. As with most kids of the time, I never felt like I got enough of it. Then bringing up my own boys in the 90s, we did occasionally shoot but they preferred…
by Justin Thyme, a GSL member Due process of law represents a fundamental, constitutional guarantee that all legal proceedings will be fair, and that one will be given notice of the proceedings and that opportunity to be heard before the government acts to take away one’s life, liberty or property.…
Billionaire Mikey Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun (Control) says Illinois has the sixth most stringent gun control laws in America. Gabby Giffords gives Illinois an A- on the gun control laws imposed upon the law-abiding. Yet all those racist and classist gun control measures did only one thing in Highland Park…
Guns Save Life has a reputation for aggressive advocacy of gun rights and your right to defend yourself. And following the US Supreme Court’s Bruen decision, we have already taken action to benefit Illinois gun owners and their right to own guns and defend themselves. In 2019, Guns Save Life…
(GSL) - Guns Save Life started almost thirty years ago. Since then, GSL has accomplished a great many things thanks to our incredible pool of talented, creative and successful members and supporters. Back in early 1994, the Illinois State Rifle Association sought to launch county-level grassroots gun rights groups to…
By Ray CarrI have vivid memories of Decoration Day as a young kid. We would meet up at the bowling alley parking lot. I’m nervous about my Boy Scout uniform. Some is new, some is handed down from cousins. I have never had a complete uniform and my shoes…
[caption id="attachment_31809" align="alignnone" width="770"] Image courtesy Springfield Armory.[/caption] I regularly advise people to avoid Chicago when possible. It's simply not safe there. The local political leaders protect the criminals while disparaging the law-abiding victims of crime. And just the law-abiding in general. Want an example? I'm so glad you asked…
Gun owners won big with the Bruen decision at the US Supreme Court. The court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that the Second Amendment effectively means what it says, and that any effort to restrict it must follow commonplace contemporary laws of the 18th and 19th centuries. Clarence Thomas wrote…
[caption id="attachment_31805" align="alignnone" width="753"] Image via Georgia Public Broadcasting.[/caption] Recently one of GSL’s former board members became the victim of a strong-arm robbery. The man (we’ll call him Fred to protect his identity) is now in his 70s and increasingly frail. He was at home when three individuals showed up.…
Some members of the Naperville City Council want to virtue signal to their fellow gun-hating leftists by banning sales of commonly sold self-defense firearms in their city. Of course, gun owners opposed this proposal that would hurt the poor, women and people of color. [caption id="attachment_31775" align="alignnone" width="770"] Law Weapons'…
