We Defend Your Right to Defend Yourself
For the September GSL meeting in Charleston, we welcomed local hero Angela McQueen as our main speaker. Back in 2017, she thwarted a massacre at the Mattoon High School by wresting a .40 S&W pistol from a deranged student. She initially shunned the spotlight, but word of her heroic response…
by John BochGSL Executive Director(Originally published in mid-September 2021)You’ve probably read by now that our pissant potentate President Joe Biden banned the importation of Russian-made ammo, firearms and the like. Allegedly Slow Joe took this action to penalize the Russians, but in reality, we all know Biden acted to…
In regione caecorum rex est luscusIn the Land of the Blind, the one-eyed man is Kingby Desiderius Erasmus, a GSL member What if I were to tell you that a black and white movie, with a budget of only $800,000 made in 1966, was so profound that it significantly influenced…
The Illinois Supreme Court has struck down Cook County's gun and ammo tax as unconstitutional in a decision released Thursday, October 21st. In Guns Save Life v. Ali, the state's high court ruled the tax on an unpopular fundamental right improperly violates the Illinois Constitution's uniformity clause. The Cook County…
by John BochGun makers keep setting the bar higher and higher for new product development. After all, everyone wants a small and light carry gun, with a good trigger, good sights and decent capacity. And if it shoots well and comfortably on top of that, that’s just a bonus, right?…
Do you participate in gun rights advocacy? You should. Here's the October issue of Guns Save Life's monthly journal. Download the .pdf here. Share it with your friends. In the coming days, we'll post November's issue. But first we want to give our members a chance to enjoy it. …
Well the FBI released the 2020 Crime Report - it is the compilation of 2019 into 2020 numbers, so it is not really the current numbers, just what they gathered from last year. We all watched crime develop last year on TV. People were out of control, police were painted…
Home carry can save lives. On Monday, August 30th, a dementia-addled senior citizen went off the deep end in a mobile community on the very north side of Normal, Illinois. Yes, the same Normal that is home to Illinois State University. Ron Reiner, 66, apparently started his rampage by killing…
Do you remember September 11th? While you and I do, plenty today do not. Those college age and younger don't have any recollection. Even those in their mid- to late-twenties may have few if any memories of the day or its significance. I certainly remember it. It was on the…
By John NaeseIn the back of your mind, you knew the day was coming. It was just a matter of the next horrible crime committed by a gun (of course, not by a criminal!), or the next time the perennial gun ban bill came close to passing. You knew the…
