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Democrat Kathleen Willis, a big fan of gun control, keeps bringing out revisions to her beloved Lethal Violence Order of Protections bill HB-2354.  Yes, the bill Richard Pearson of ISRA dubbed the “Snitch Bill” over its original provisions to allow anonymous complaints against gun owners in an effort to strip…

Photo Credit: JP Rifles.com   By Mike Keleher The new competition kid in town, Pistol Caliber Carbine (PCC), which uses lightweight carbine length firearms primarily in 9mm, .40 S&W and .45 ACP has sprouted up almost overnight. The evolution of how PCC came to be so popular is a bit…

  Why is it gun control proponents have such a vigorous propensity to abuse others?  Could it be scratch a gun grabber and you get a tyrant?  Gun control loving NY State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigned last night following allegations of physically, mentally and sexually abusing at least four…

The mainstream media and leftist politicians have made gun owners the newest “undesirable” class of Americans.  In essence, they’ve made us the equivalent of blacks in America before the civil rights era came along.  We are to be segregated and marginalized, and subject to arrest and imprisonment if we resist…

Meet Shane Sleeper, aged old enough to know better.  He threatened to commit a mass murder at Sidetrack, a gay bar in the Boystown neighborhood of Chicago.  "Orlando will come to Chicago," he messaged. Cook County prosecutors actually got off their hind quarters and filed a slew of charges against…

by Steve Davis Guns Save Life President (This was the May 2018 President's Report as previously published in GunNews Magazine.) April 11th marked the 32nd anniversary of the FBI Miami shootout. It remains one of the most studied confrontations in the history of American law enforcement - right up there…

  This past Sunday, Guns Save Life Executive Director John Boch joined the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence's E.D. Colleen Daley at Normal West High School.  The two appeared as part of the McLean County Diversity Project forum discussing guns, gun rights, and school safety. The two met in December…

  Come right in ladies and gentlemen!  Watch a corporate suicide happen in real time!  Yeah, billionaire Edward Stack isn't content with virtue signaling his contempt for gun owners nationwide.  No, he's been busily hiring lobbyists to lobby Congress for more gun control. Yes, he's pissing his money away because…

Clearly Guns Save Life continues to get proven results with our public education and messaging campaigns.  If our work did not make a difference, nobody would care.  And certainly people would not commit felonies in an effort to suppress our messaging.  We sat on this bit of anonymous correspondance dated…

Yesterday, the annual Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day event took place in Springfield. Over 2000 good guys and gals turned out, rallied and then marched to the capitol building. Once there, they lobbied to successfully kill any chance of an over-ride of Governor Bruce Rauner's veto of the Gun Retailer…