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  Several factors drive Chicago's current orgy of violence, but the supposed availability of guns isn't one of them. For example, in Florida, nearly one in five adults has a concealed carry license of some sort, and firearm violent crime in that state had dipped to historic lows.  Chicago, with…

Happy Mother's Day weekend from Murder City USA. Hey Jackass has the totals. 52 shot from Friday through early morning Monday. 8 homicides in that time frame.   Last Week’s Totals (5/1 – 5/7) Shot & Killed: 14 Shot & Wounded: 80 Total Shot: 94 Total Homicides: 14    

Moms Demand Action is peddling gun control. Are you buying? If so, they've got a bridge in Brooklyn they want to sell you as well. Michael Bloomberg spends $50 million a year on his gun control group Everytown for Gun Control and Moms Demand Action. Each year, the moms host…

We like to say history comes to life at Guns Save Life meetings. Nicolas Cage's new movie profiles the courage of the men of the USS Indianapolis, which at the time was the fastest big boat in the US Navy's inventory and it was tasked with taking the atomic bomb…

        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,…