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  (NRA-ILA) - Following the lead of their presumptive presidential nominee, the Democratic Party is set to adopt a gun control plank in their 2016 party platform that lays bare the party leadership’s antipathy towards gun rights. The draft 2016 plank marks a significant shift in the party’s approach to…

The Quad Cities Dispatch had a nice story about concealed carry in Illinois at our three-year anniversary of passing a CCW law.   Concealed carry prophets of doom guessed wrong By John Donald O'Shea (Quad Cities Dispatch) - Those who favor stricter gun control in Illinois have operated on the…

Steel Will author Shilo Harris will be at the Champaign, IL Guns Save Life meeting on Tuesday, July 12th! (He's also going to be at Bloomington, IL on Wednesday, July 13th!) Don't miss this chance to meet an American hero and an inspirational speaker, who has overcome more adversity than…

  by Josh McNattin With all that has gone on in the news with respect to violent crime, alleged racism and protests recently, it's easy to miss the stories of heroism. One such story was almost missed entirely by the mainstream media.  On May 29th, 2016, Byron Wilson a licensed…

by Brandon Pruitt Originally posted at ILGunRights.com.  Used with permission. Anti-2nd-Amendment Advocates have, since the very beginning, done nothing but search for underhanded ways to fight against the Gun Rights movement.  It’s not a surprise, then, that they’ve found a way to utilize technology in order to silence the voice…

A Black Lives Matter supporter traveled to a police officer's home Saturday evening in St. Louis and met Jesus after throwing a 50-pound planter through a window in the rear of the house to make entry.  The Black Lives Matter supporter's goal?  Apparently he thought he was going to intimidate…

Hands up, don't shoot? Black Lives Matter loves to promote the fiction that police officers, especially white cops, are slaughtering unarmed black males.  The reality is quite the opposite. Cops are nearly 18.5 times more likely to be killed by black males than to kill an unarmed black male. What's…

[caption id="attachment_21519" align="alignnone" width="630"] A Dallas police officer, who did not want to be identified, takes a moment as she guards an intersection in the early morning after a shooting in downtown Dallas (AP Photo/LM Otero) ABC 11 caption.[/caption] by John Boch So I get a call this morning after…

As is the case, given some time and investigation, additional information has surfaced about the recent deaths of two men shot and killed by police in recent days. A whole lot of Americans have seen video from both incidents, with Mr. Castile's girlfriend streaming his death live on Facebook and…

Thank you, Barack Obama, for your divisive regime in Washington.  You've fundamentally transformed America by Balkanizing it. Two Black Lives Matter thugs ambushed Dallas cops last night, shooting a dozen officers.  Five died from their wounds. In the aftermath of this tragedy, more ghetto trash are advocating (and in some…