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    The big names in gun control are advocating wearing orange today. From the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence facebook page: Today is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. We ‪#‎wearorange‬ in honor of the 1,000 people killed by guns in Illinois every year. Who will you #wearorange for? Apparently,…

Firearms Training For Everyone “I came into the course nervous and a little uncomfortable. I came out of it confident in my ability to use my gun to protect my family and with the knowledge of how and when to do so.”   Train with the people you know and…

Katie Couric got busted for unethical reporting in her "Under the Gun" so-called documentary, and now distributor EPIX has pulled it from their streaming service. (Fortune Magazine) - The day after news anchor Katie Couric apologized for “misleading” editing of her new documentary, Under the Gun, the movie about gun…

  Bryce Dejean-Jones learned a hard lesson when he went to see the mother of his one-year-old daughter in Dallas. Dejean-Jones was estranged from his girlfriend / mother of his child, and showed up at what he thought was her apartment at 3:30am. Not getting any answer when he knocked,…

Yesterday marked the final day of the spring legislative session in Springfield. It's been rather busy of late, and here's the Reader's Digest version of the three major legislative battles this spring. Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence Executive Director Colleen Daley talks policy before a debate with Guns Save Life…

[caption id="attachment_21175" align="alignnone" width="600"] Chicago Police work on a fresh one.[/caption] From HeyJackass. Final Stupidity Tally: 7 killed, 68 wounded 2015 weekend tally: 8 killed, 24 wounded 2014 weekend tally: 9 killed, 27 wounded That's 7 shot and killed.  One more homicide victim got run over by an automobile, per…

The controversial, and at times just plain goofy Glenn Beck has been getting more and more extreme in his talk against Donald Trump. If only Mr. Beck had been so vocal and so aggressive about protecting and defending our gun rights, to say nothing of Barack Obama and the rest…

I Had a Dream I had dream the other night, well I didn't understand. A man walked through a mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three cornered hat and speaking low to me…

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…