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        Critical Threat Management Comprehensive Force-on-Force training to avoid, or if necessary, overcome a violent attack   GSL Defense Training’s Critical Threat Management course integrates multiple layers of practical, defensive tactics to help keep you and your loved ones safer. If you have the misfortune of being…

On Saturday evening, according to police, Dracy "Clint" Pendleton shot a Mahomet police officer.  The officer took a hit in the arm, and Pendleton may be known as "stubby" henceforth as there's talk that he may have lost a finger in the gun battle. It's not his first rodeo with…

GSL Defense Training’s Critical Threat Management Course “A good piece of kit” by Joshua McClain (GunNews) - Time and time again I see people take their required 16-hour Illinois Concealed Carry course only to think they’ve reached the finish line. Unfortunately, too many people think the basic CCW course is…

(GunNews) - How do the professionals prepare themselves to better handle the body’s reactions when faced with stress, fear and potential violence - the tremors, rapid heartbeat, anxiety?  “There’s only one way,” experts say.  “And that’s force-on-force training.” Here in Central Illinois, GSL Defense Training kicked off their second year…

[caption id="attachment_20980" align="alignnone" width="600"] Heidi Stevens[/caption] Isn't it amazing how the first word out of gun grabbers' pie holes is, "Oh we believe in gun rights.  We just want to...  blah blah blah.  Nobody wants to take guns away from people." Until they do just that...  with an unending stream…

A former military policeman in East Mobile, AL put a stop to a brazen burglar trying to steal his stuff. Al Taylor proved that you don't need a big-bore .44 to convince a bad guy to repent and surrender until five-oh arrives.  He did it with a little .22 pistol,…

After decades of onerous background checks for gun buyers, oftentimes without plainly established criteria and without an appeals process, the mainstream media has begun howling at the Secret Service applying similar standards upon media members seeking credentials to report from the Republican and Democrat national conventions. Boo hoo hoo.  Let…

The Obama Regime continues its march to enact gun control via executive fiat. Social Security moves to block the mentally ill from purchasing guns (The Hill) - The Social Security Administration (SSA) is proposing to report people who receive disability benefits and have a mental health condition to the FBI’s…

  So, you want to be a firearms instructor? It's a good question and the subject of a great article at Women and Guns, a Second Amendment Foundation publication. I'm going to share much of the article with you here, and urge you to go read the whole thing -…

[caption id="attachment_20958" align="alignnone" width="600"] Pat Rogers helps Sheriff Ken Campbell with his gear. You can see his mind working, just pondering the next smart alec remark to share with us.[/caption] Multiple sources are reporting that Pat Rogers, the prolific writer, salty instructor and witty individual passed away of a heart…