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It's been a wild afternoon in Springfield at the Illinois State Capitol building.  Despite vicious earlier bickering between groups, the anti-gunners have come together to save their sinking ship SS GUN CONTROL that ran into a couple of big icebergs in recent days. In short, their ship is sinking and…

So what happened?  Here's some information that got forwarded on to us from an insider in the process. Usually adding an amendment is not that big a deal and parliamentary in nature. Kinda run of the mill stuff. And a lot of reps were out late the night before, knowing…

    The Illinois Gun Lobby Facebook page is a fantastic place to stay up to date on some of the legislative machinations happening in the Illinois General Assembly. You should bookmark it, trust me.  And "Like" it too. Today, Gabby Giffords and her Americans for Responsible Solutions took a…

Here's how bad it is: Bad. Here's the run-down on Amendment 5. The bill contains a gun ban for people who sell of liquidate all or parts of their collection. If you sell more than 10 guns in a year as trying to liquidate or improve your collections, or due…

The gun grabbing leftists are at it again. Their initial scheme rationed you to eight gun transactions per year unless you jumped impossible hurdles to become a licensed "dealer".  That's right:  You could buy four guns and sell four guns and that's it.  "Oh, I'll just become a licensed dealer"…

Gun grabbers never rest in their holy war against your rights. Community Word and the Peoria chapter of the NAACP are sponsoring a showing of the widely discredited "Making a Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA" TONIGHT, Thursday, May 26, at the Peoria Public Library North, followed by a "moderated…

The mainstream media in America can't understand why exactly 6% of Americans trust their reporting. Keep in mind that 6.7% of Americans struggle with serious mental illness.  That might explain why only 6% of Americans trust the media. Good old Katie Couric stands as a poster child for Americans' distrust…

Photo taken just after an armed robber made a fatal error in the victim selection process. Our non-productive ne'er-do-well won't do that again. Good riddance.   FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS (KTRK) -- A homeowner shot and killed a man trying to rob him Wednesday night at his home in Fort…

A 16-year-old "boy" named Le'Genius Wisdom caught our eye.  He found himself arrested at the ripe old age of 13 for robbery and shooting at another kid in separate incidents.  He will be spending 8 years as the guest of the Florida Department of Corrections. In Illinois, he would be…

Media Matters for America is trying to make hay of Sheriff David Clarke's criticisms of Hillary Clinton's shrill calls for gun control as a panacea for violent crime and her desire to implement gun confiscations if elected president. The interview that MMFA posted also contained Clarke weighing in on the…