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[caption id="attachment_29777" align="aligncenter" width="768"] Armed protesters at last year's Virginia Capital rally.[/caption] The FBI reportedly believes there is a “huge uprising” being planned for January 16 to 20 across all 50 of America’s state capitals.  Publicity materials have made the rounds on social media touting everyone to turn out Sunday,…

(GSL) - Acting like tyrants, America’s big tech companies deplatformed all manner of opposing viewpoints from their services in January. They deleted a number of accounts, including those of President Trump, AR15.com, Second City Cop and plenty of others. Their censorship of Americans’ free speech rights is, in our view,…

What would you do if a Catholic Priest molested your child?  Child sex abuse allegations have caused the Chicago Archdiocese to remove Father Michael "Snuffy" Pfleger from his parish at Chicago's St. Sabina's church.  Why does GSL care about some potentially pervy priest in America's largest open-air shooting range known…

We regret that both our primary and secondary locations for the Decatur GSL meeting have both fallen unavailable. Coz's Pizza is very optimistic that they will be open for our February meeting - assuming Joe Biden doesn't pull some national lockdown bravo sierra upon taking office. In better news, our…

GunNews haven't arrived.   For anyone. We are well aware of the problem.  Once again, we have not found anyone who got their GunNews in December by USPS.   You would think Joe Biden is already President or something. Every time we check whether a members' name and address are correct and…

  By Mike Keleher The National Shooting Sports Foundation sent out an email late today December 23, 2020 announcing the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) has rescinded its Notice of “Objective Factors for Classifying Weapons with Stabilizing Braces” that was published just last week in the federal register!…

Central Illinois will see two big gun sales in coming days. The sales will include the private collections of two prolific gun collectors, including a GSL member. Springfield Armory Pre 98 1896 Krag .30-40 Krag at Bauer’s. MATTOON: Bauer Auction 1000-gun auctionOn Friday, January 1st starting at 9am, Bauer Auction…

By Mike Keleher The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives just dropped a gun registration whopper in full view of the apprehensive post-election public in a classic Washingtonian move.If you have never seen it play out, this is how bad news is put out in D.C. - you wait…

Given the arbitrary and constantly changing orders, escalating threats and moving goalposts of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s COVID response, we have had to cancel some GSL meetings. Sometimes on short notice. For that, we apologize. Now, given new restrictions, we are seeking short-term alternative meeting locations to replace regular venues…

At the Champaign County GSL meeting in November, GSL Executive Director John Boch presented a grim analysis of where gun owners both in Illinois and nationally stand following the preliminary election results. This is a condensed version without a lot of the nuances discussed in person. Last month, we saw…