We Defend Your Right to Defend Yourself
For only about the third time in 25 years, Guns Save Life cancelled a meeting at the last minute. This time, at the January 2018 GSL Peoria meeting, our host site closed because of a water main break. The parking lot had a lot of ice on it and disaster remediation…
Blog by Mike Keleher Well the numbers are in, and believe it or not, they are less than last year’s Chicago’s Annual Year Long Shoot-Fest. Finishing 2017 with 675 homicides and 3,561 shot it is still lower than 2016’s 808 homicides and 4,380 shot. 133 fewer murders is welcome news.…
We published the story of a Craigslist transaction that was merely an armed robbery set up. Our GSL family member narrowly escaped with his life. A guy who showed up a couple of hours later a few houses down to buy a laptop didn't fare so well. He caught two…
With Christmas approaching, who can blame people for trying to find bargains for gift-giving? But sometimes the search for a deal can come with all manner of danger. A dear friend of mine sought out an iPhone 8 for his lovely bride on Craigslist. Florio thought he’d found a good…
Photo Credit: Geoffrey C. Gunn, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6425969 Blog by Mike Keleher Amazing but true headline. Senior United Nations personnel have been consulted with in New York City and have been invited to come to Chicago to talk about the rampant gun violence. Who could come up with such a bizarre idea?…
At Guns Save Life, we defend your right to defend yourself. Our freedom-loving members show incredible activism, and at the same time we show great support for good causes. One of those causes is making sure Stephen Willeford has a replacement rifle following his heroic acts that put an end…
Photo Credit: Spectrum News NY1 11DEC17 By Mike Keleher On December 11, 2017 apparently Brooklyn resident Akayed Ullah, age 27, set off a low yield explosive device in a New York City subway passageway just before 7:30 a.m. during morning rush hour. Three other people were injured. In a rather…
Photo by Wikipedia Article by Mike Keleher First let me establish I think I am a normal gun guy. I like guns. I own guns, and spend a lot of time shooting them, fixing them after I have broken them (I break more guns in a given year than most…
Al Franken claims he's a champion of women. He also claimed, shortly after bullying his way into the Senate, that he wasn't going to vote for gun control, either. In fact, he said he would work to repeal gun control laws. Really! In his first televised speech after bullying his…
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. And when an armed robber threatens a card-carrying good guy's family, he might just be asking for a ballistic prescription administered on the spot. That happened in San Antonio as a brazen bandito pulled a gun on a man at Popeye's.…