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In the video description, dad writes, “I was practicing drawing from holster and dry fire drills and she decided to join in." Sweet, indeed. Yes, it's adorable. Dad practicing his dry firing skills with his little girl who practices with her own gun - a plastic training pistol. The toddler…
Another of Guns Save Life's leaders made it into the mainstream media in local days for his good works. Justin Bawcum, pictured above, serves GSL as the Charleston Regional Co-Coordinator. He found himself in a Mattoon-Charleston Journal-Gazette/Times-Courier feature story in recent days. Bawcum's determination to stay in shape, despite serious…
[caption id="attachment_23741" align="aligncenter" width="630"]The suspect 39-year-old Kori Ali Muhammad gets taken into custody. He was a bully when facing unarmed people. When he faced someone with a gun, he folded like a cheap suit. Coward.[/caption] California strikes again. Their onerous and highly restrictive gun laws did little to prevent a…
[caption id="attachment_23737" align="aligncenter" width="800"]Guns Save Life's Chicagoland Regional Director Alfreda Keith Keller takes a turn at the head of this year's IGOLD parade. We're so proud of her! The Chicago Sun-Times just posted a glowing story on Alfreda and her advocacy.[/caption] The winds of change have come. The Chicago Sun-Times…
Recently, counter-demonstrators to a rally in support of President Donald Trump showed up open carrying rifles and pistols. When a Phoenix New Times reporter noticed the rifle-totin’ red-scarfed brigade, he followed along . . . As I walked next to them, we would encounter obstacles, like parked cars, and so forth, and…
Meet career criminal Joseph Jakubowski. He wrote a rambling, 160-page manifesto and mailed it to President Donald Trump. In the diatribe, Jakubowski threatened to kill the leader of the free world. He also stole some 16 firearms from a gun store in Wisconsin. Police hope he will turn himself in. …
Guns Save Life's Chicagoland Regional Director Alfreda Keith-Keller, right, enjoys sharing a momentary lead in this year's march to the state capitol. Gun owners in Illinois stepped up to the plate for the 11th annual Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day. Thankfully, not even a steady drizzle or cool temperatures could…
Between gun stores and the internet, gun owners new and old can learn a lot. Great information is widely available (including right here at The Truth About Guns!) about gun ownership, maintaining guns and their use in competition, recreation and self-defense. Unfortunately, the quality of information can vary widely. Some…
Mossberg's new Shockwave shotgun was introduced at the SHOT Show and is finally being seen in the wild. The shotgun, classified by our friends at the BATFE as a "non-NFA firearm," features a 14-inch barrel and a 26.5-inch overall length. In short, it's a short-barrelled shotgun of a sort that doesn't…
Bug-out bags, sometimes known as get-home bags, provide some basics to survive while evacuating from a disaster. While philosophies vary about the bags and their contents, should guns and ammo be a part of yours? But-out bags are really must-have items. They can save your life. The old expression "proper…