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Are you limping along on a battery that doesn't want to start your car on cold mornings?  Do you have nothing in your car for cold-weather preparedness?  Have you broken out your warmest winter coat?  Do your kiddos or grandkids have warm winter outerwear?  Got your residence ready for super…

We're beyond frustrated with the US Postal Service.  Our publication is effectively being shadow-banned even though we're paying THOUSANDS each month to the Postal Service to deliver GunNews to our members in a timely manner.  It's not rocket science to figure this out.  Sure, we have some members who occasionally…

You probably want to watch this.  It offers an excellent summation and analysis of Guns Save Life's challenge to the FOID Act.   https://youtu.be/FFUDqQtCnmQ  

Many if not most folks in Illinois believe that our state requires good people to retreat from a threat if they can do so safely before using force in self-defense. However, as one of the nation’s highest profile and most successful criminal defense attorneys explained at our Peoria GSL meeting,…

Springfield, IL (GSL) - On Saturday, December 14th, despite a driving rain and 33 degree temperatures, a number of our Guns Save Life family joined volunteers from other organizations to decorate the headstones at Camp Butler National Cemetery in Springfield. A couple hundred patriotic Americans placed roughly 12,000 wreaths over…

Some updates for January... January. Decatur. January 1 falls on the first Wednesday next year. We will NOT have a meeting on New Year’s evening. See you in February. LaSalle County. Jamie’s Outpost, our host location, is closed during the month of January so we will NOT have a January…

The ability to self-rescue is important. A 100-year storm or adverse event isn’t something that happens every hundred years, it merely means you have a 1% chance of experiencing it any given year. Denying these potential threats can result in serious injury or death to you and your loved ones.…

Merry Christmas. And since the majority of voters who actually voted pulled the lever for these two carnival barkers, it seems fitting to put them on our State Christmas Card cover. Heck, we could make this the new State of Illinois flag.  Wouldn't that be just perfect?

by John Boch We're bringing this to our members and friends because we not only believe it to be true, but have learned of corroborating information that further supports it.  You can read this synopsis, which will take ten or fifteen minutes.  Toward the end, I've included a video interview…

For the fourth or fifth time in the past few years, someone at the Peoria Post Office has slow-walked processing and mailing of GunNews Magazines.  The common theme:  Headlines that might trigger radical leftists.  The most recent example:  The December 2024 issue that featured the "GSL won!  Trump won!" headline.…