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Gunnery Sergeant Michael Berryhill, the Assistant Marine Officer Instructor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, contacted me recently regarding an inability to secure rimfire training ammo for his midshipmen at the UI. He asked if Guns Save Life could help. I told him I thought our members could…
Guns Save Life is proud of its monthly journal GunNews Magazine. We currently print about 17,000 copies each month and they go to our members (now in 40ish states) and to retailers and businesses across Illinois and beyond. Last month, one of our sharp-eyed members noticed a stack of GunNews…
Like you I saw the horrific news from Boulder Colorado about the spree shooting inside a grocery store this week with ten dead, including a police officer We have seen mass shooting stories mangled and obfuscated by the press- no sense waiting for facts, but this time the shooter has…
Senator Elgie Sims and his family. He's outraged that a felon who threatened him with an illegally carried and possessed gun was released on just $1500 bail thanks to the Illinois Affordable Bail law he voted for... Image courtesy of his Facebook page. Once upon a time not so long…
Today we learned the identity of the spree killer in Boulder, Colorado. Police say they have arrested Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa, 21 for multiple counts of murder. Heavy.com reports he was born in Syria and came to the US as a child. He also was a very faithful practitioner of…
(GSL) - At GSL, we hear a wide range of perspectives from gun industry insiders. Some have shared some of their observations in the past few weeks with our members at meetings and to GunNews. You already knew ammo was scarce, but you may not have known about the price…
Don't pity Decatur's city leaders. They posted an announcement seeking to buy unwanted firearms and magazines from law-abiding residents. They even cited a quote from the gun owner Dr. Martin Luther King to encourage participation in a plan that would leave the law-abiding residents who participated less able to defend…
By Mike KeleherI was fortunate to have grown up being taken along by my father to fabulous crowded, smelly and wonderous gun shows held in county fairground buildings in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The were gatherings of beings who purveyed almost anything from guns and ammo to books and knives…
"The time is always right to do what's right," the great civil rights leader (and gun owner) Martin Luther King once said. He was right, too! Today, some do-gooders in Decatur announced a coming gun buyback for Friday afternoon, April 2nd from 2p-6p. Sponsors are calling it the "Decatur Community…
The Illinois State Rifle Association has officially pulled the plug on the Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day for this year. Scheduled for April, the event would have had thousands of gun owners saturating the capitol complex. Well, before COVID restrictions. If you have a "moderate" Democrat State Senator, we would…
