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  Some of you may remember Charles "Stretch" Ledford and the video he made about the GSL Burma Signs back in 2012 - "Handguns and Humor in the Heartland."    As you might imagine, we were a little skeptical about this professor of journalism that came to us wanting to…

West Viriginia's Democrat Governor Early Ray Tomblin vetoed a Constitutional Carry measure for the second time in as many years this past week. This year, the legislature there promptly over-rode his veto.  It happened this morning!  In 90 days, no license will be needed for law-abiding residents to carry a…

Guns Save Life hit a couple of home runs on our first day lobbying in the Illinois General Assembly. We met a number of people in leadership from both parties as well as rank and file members. It was a better day than we could have dreamed possible. While we…

  Remember all this hot air last summer? Coalition Files Suit Over Gun Sales in Suburbs Several mothers of young men killed by gun violence in Chicago are named as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against three suburban Chicago communities: Lyons, Riverdale, and Lincolnwood. The women, along with the Coalition for…

  [caption id="attachment_20376" align="alignnone" width="600"] Guns Save Life Executive Director John Boch, National Rifle Association - Institute for Legislative Action Illinois Liaison Shannon Alford and Guns Save Life President Bear St. Pierre at the Peoria GSL meeting after a day lobbying at the Illinois State Capitol.[/caption]     There is…

    It's only March, but this year is shaping up like none I've ever seen before and I'll tell you why:  The turnout for Republicans is off the charts so far this year, while Democrat turnout has been in the toilet. Here are some numbers.  Vote count difference compared…

Gun sales in February 2016 were big.  Really big. Remember how last year's gun sales were the biggest ever in recorded history?  With 23.1 million pre-sale background checks conducted, 2015 was almost 15% bigger than 2014's numbers and a clean double of those in 2007. This February, gun sales were…

Illinois has a violent crime problem because we don't put bad guys in prison where they belong. Example #Eleventymillion:  19-year-old Raul M. Ybarra.  After THREE juvenile convictions for burglary, and unlawful use of credit card, telephone harassment and public indecency charges in adult court, he was sentenced to a year…

Sports Authority files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (USA Today CAUTION autoplay video) -  Big-box chain Sports Authority lost its bid to remain in the retail game without a dramatic restructuring as the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday. The retailer — owned by Los Angeles-based private equity firm Leonard Green &…

Gun silencers are useful, not scary by Bob Owens More than 100 years ago, inventor Hiram Percy Maxim created two almost identical products to accomplish the same goal in two very different industries. The divergent ways we treat those products today reveals the irrationality driving our national firearms debate. One…