We Defend Your Right to Defend Yourself
Shots rang out at the Nissan of Greenville, Texas Tuesday evening. Two bounty hunters had tracked down a fugitive and confronted him inside the business, completely indifferent to the safety of employees and other customers. The three traded over two dozen rounds. In the end, all three died of their…
Illinois continues to lose residents left and right. Try to rent a U-Haul one-way out of Illinois and you'll pay a king's ransom. Conversely, if you're foolish enough to want to rent one coming to Illinois, they'll practically pay you to do so! In news that might give folks…
The National Rifle Association held their annual National Air Gun Championship this year in Bloomington, Illinois. For two days, the best of the best of America's air gun shooters came to Central Illinois Precision Shooting range to battle it out on May 27-28th. Nineteen shooters made it through a series…
I can sum up the Liberty Safe SafElert monitoring system in one word: awesome. This piece of electronic wizardry acts as your personal burglar alarm and status monitor for your gun safe. For creative minds, it would also works on your liquor cabinet or cigar humidor. Working tirelessly, it provides an…
There's stupid, Uber-stupid, and felony stupid. Then there's three "urban youths" from Champaign-Urbana who think central Illinois is just like Chicago. They got themselves a gun and decided they would commit a home invasion to recover $300 the rocket surgeon leader of the trio thought he was owed. What did…
We’ve trained in using situational awareness to avoid bad guys. For many of us, we also have training in using a firearm safely and effectively to save our lives. However, what happens when a bad guy gets within your reactionary gap? Krav Maga – “contact combat” in Hebrew – provides…
Momentum continues to grow across America to recognize the right of legal gun carriers to pack heat while on college campuses. We all know how "campus carry" upsets a lot of gun haters. However, years ago those same radicals promised us blood in the streets if average Americans were "allowed"…
Nothing good happens after midnight, especially when adding alcohol into the mix. Just that happened last weekend in Champaign (that's "downstate" for Chicagoland residents). A large group of people began tussling in downtown Champaign's entertainment district at about 1:30am. Entertainment really means bar district, for those leading sheltered lives. The crowd…
The majority of Americans recognize that firearm ownership provides real protection from criminal attack. Increasingly, women have come to embrace the empowerment of both gun ownership and concealed carry in their daily lives. Yes, the fairer sex still lags behind in tooling up. However, women represent the fastest growing group of gun owners.…
A Michigan Congressman present at this morning’s attack by a Bernie Sanders supporter from Illinois says that a gun saved their lives. Rep. Mike Bishop described himself and his fellow Republicans as “sitting ducks” for the would-be murderer and political assassin armed with a rifle. He credited a good guy with a gun for…