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Salon.com profiles the Second Amendment repealists, including at least one special snowflake candidate for Congress. So, the next time you hear someone say that "nobody's talking about taking your gun rights" with a straight face, you can point them this way and know they are full of fecal matter. Sorry,…

What are you doing Saturday, April 16th? Go to ISU's Redbird Arena and see the Gamma Phi Circus.  It's America's oldest collegiate circus. It's *awesome*.  Tickets in the "lower bowl" are about $15. Shows at 1pm and 7pm Saturday. Seriously, if you don't have plans, take the kids/grandkids, or the…

The big national gun control groups are coming to Illinois.  They see Democrats as holding super-majorities in both houses of our General Assembly - and the fact that our gun laws could use some "improvements". Just what we need in Illinois is more failed gun control schemes so we can…

by John Boch The anti-gunners (primarily the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, and the other also-rans) are working hard to push their signature bill for this session:  HB-3160 - The "Lethal Violence Order of Protection". The gun haters claim HB-3160 is a harmless, "common sense" bill to deal with mental…

[caption id="attachment_20781" align="alignnone" width="720"] Meet Pierre Loury, age 16. He was a ghetto superstar - until Darwin caught up with him.[/caption]   Thug:   noun 1.  a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer. Saint: noun 1.  any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such…

[caption id="attachment_20770" align="alignnone" width="623"] Senator Julie A. Morrison wants to play "gotcha" games with your gun rights.[/caption] When you apply for a new FOID card in Illinois, as soon as the Illinois State Police gets your application, they invalidate your old one while they process the renewal.  How do we…

Gun rights activists aren't single-dimensional people.  We're real Americans who love baseball, apple pie, America's favorite rifle and all things American - including volunteering to help others in need and worthy causes. Timber Pointe Outdoor Center in Hudson, IL is honored to have been selected as a 2016 National Comcast…

Rahm Emanuel sure can pick 'em.  The man he named to head the Chicago "Department of Aviation" Police - otherwise known as the 300 police that patrol O'Hare and Midway Airports - worked tirelessly to build animosity between himself and his officers. He forced his trained cops - real police…

  [caption id="attachment_20713" align="alignnone" width="492"] Interim Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson and 75 officers walked to Madison Pruitt's house Wednesday to make her dream of being a cop come true. | Mitch Dudek/Sun-Times[/caption]   Sad news from Chicago, as a 6-year-old little girl with a  big heart and dreams of…

  Bill Martin, who served as an infantry major in the US Army and today spends his spare time teaching others empty-hand combatives through Krav Maga, will be our featured speaker at the GSL Champaign, IL meeting Tuesday evening. The meeting will be held at Fluid Events in Champaign, 601…