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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…

Good Friday morning, gentleladies and gentlemen: A lot of folks have asked how things are going in Springfield for us in recent days.  Obviously.  Here's a quick (or not so quick) update! Governor Rauner's veto of the Gun Retailer Licensing bill stands! It was so very, very close, but the…

A couple of weeks ago, I received a phone call from an Illinois State Representative serving on a school safety committee seeking ways to keep our school children safer.  He said there were eight Republicans and an equal number of Democrats and a few others serving.  I provided him some…

Sam McCann has joined the race for Illinois Governor.  He made the announcement last Thursday.  In his coming out talking points to media, he said this as reported by the Chicago Tribune: “I’m the only person in this race who has consistently stood up to Rauner and (Democratic House Speaker…

From our friends at ISRA (because we can't be everywhere at once!): ISRA ALERT: MARENGO RESIDENTS AND NEIGHBORS:  MEET THE ANTI-GUNNERS AT THE MARENGO CITY COUNCIL MEETING - MONDAY APRIL 23 The City of Marengo will take a vote Monday April 23 to decide on a special use permit for…

The Chicago Tribune gleefully printed the headline news today, April 23rd:  "Chicago tourism numbers hit record high, topping 55 million in 2017".  The Trib cited numbers provided by "city officials".  And the dutiful mainstream media did exactly zero work verifying them.  Just as the mainstream media shies away from writing…