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Stop the presses.  Hell has frozen over!  Well, maybe not frozen over, but a cold front certainly moved through.  The New York Times published an op-ed by John Lott critical of the government's background check system for firearm purchases.  Lott notes the incredibly high numbers of false positives that hamstring…

Staff at the McDonalds store on North Main Street in Normal, IL have a message for police officers.  It's not polite or family friendly, but it certainly has a lot of folks in Central Illinois ticked off.  After ordering her lunch in the drive through, a female Illinois State Trooper paid for her…

JB Pritzker, the billionaire Democrat who wants to add ‘Illinois Governor’ to his resume, apologized for his “racially insensitive” remarks about African-American politicians in 2008.  In short, Prizker termed Illinois’ Secretary of State the “least offensive” African-American to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Barack Hussein Obama.  As though African-Americans…

Photo Credit: Wikipedia.org   By Mike Keleher On February 01, 2018, the Illinois Supreme Court released their verdict in The People of Illinois vs Julio Chairez and struck down a statute banning possession of a firearm 1000 feet from parks within the State of Illinois. Chairez was arrested in Kane…

  The NRA-ILA has a new Illinois' liaison for Illinois.  John Weber (pictured above, left) will take over for Shannon Alford (pictured above) managing the gun rights fight in Illinois.  In a world where you're known by the company you keep, Guns Save Life is proud to stand shoulder to…

While the gun rights team in Illinois has successfully defeated or held off rabidly anti-gun legislation this past year, other states have not fared so well in recent times.  In New York State, many already registered gun owners ignored a new law that would require them to re-register all of…

Blog by Mike Keleher The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) released an email today, January 29, 2018 on the status of the WWII era 1911 pistols which will be released by the US Army to the CMP program for sale to qualified civilian buyers. Apparently, 8,000 pistols have been transferred but…

Gun people are the greatest people.  They give of themselves to make the world a better place.  Our own George Irick worked tirelessly towards that end.  As we reported earlier, he passed away in a plane crash Saturday evening in Indiana.  A week earlier, as a certifified 4H instructor in…

[caption id="attachment_24821" align="aligncenter" width="592"]George Irick, left, and David Ashley.[/caption] It is with great sadness that we report the death of George Irick, 68.  He died in a single engine plane crash in rural Indiana Saturday evening on his way back from Ohio.  Authorities found the wreckage Sunday mid-morning and additional details have…

By Mike Keleher Carjacking, the confrontational takeover of a vehicle from the driver, has become another Chicago area trademark crime.  City Hall could use new visitor promotions like “Come to Chicago-stay because you are now on foot.” The number of carjackings which have occurred in Chicago in 2016 and 2017…