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Never been to the Knob Creek Machinegun Shoot? It's a pilgrimage every serious gun owner should make at least once in their life. A massive gun show.  Machine gun rentals.  Famous people. And the night-time shoot. Here's a new video, shot just a couple of weeks ago, of this year's…

[caption id="attachment_18858" align="alignnone" width="990"] If these are refugees, then where are the women and children? Where are the older folks? Why are these all military aged males? Europe is being over-run.[/caption]   Americans have been buying guns in record numbers, especially since the election of President Barack Hussein Obama.  The…

More and more Americans are recognizing the proven, life-saving benefits of firearm ownership and how it can protect them against violent criminal predators before the police can arrive. That doesn't bode well for the nanny-state advocates of gun control and gun bans.  Ah, these die-hard zealots and paid activists grow…

    The new movie "Armor of Light" is coming out Friday.  It's touted as a movie about faith and guns and it's being pitched to everyday Americans - specifically conservative Christians. Here's the description of the flick from "Deadline": Armor Of Light, a documentary about faith and guns which…

  Today, the DeWitt Co. Sportman's Club held their annual "Outbreak" Zombie Shoot. Many scores of folks showed up and had a fantastic time shooting zombies. Only head shots count, and this year, with the addition of clay pigeons affixed to the faces/foreheads of the infected, it was easy to…

  by John Boch Warning:  Course language. Rocco Wlodarek of Black Flag Firearms Training in Chicagoland once told me at a class, and at the GSL Chicago monthly meeting, that a gas station is one of the three places the average person is most likely to be accosted. I have …

  GSL Chicago meeting: This Sunday, October 25th in Oak Lawn, IL Guns Save Life meeting this weekend! SUNDAY, October 25th at the OAK LAWN VFW.  Dinner and conversation at 4.  Meeting at 5:30. We love our gun rights, just like you do!  Discover the energy and excitement that is…

  by John Boch Dean Rothermel was one of many great friends I’ve made at Guns Save Life over the years.  Dean loved guns and shooting.  He was always at a gun show, Liberty Guns or his White Barn gunshop before that it seemed.  When it came to Ruger firearms,…

[caption id="attachment_18791" align="alignnone" width="600"] Dean Rothermel from the June 2015 Guns Save Life meeting in Champaign. That's his wife, Sharon, sitting behind him. It was the last GSL meeting he was able to attend.[/caption]   To my dear GSL family, My world has been turned upside down with the passing…

Rahm's ready. CHICAGO (CBS) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel says officials are ready for activists who want to thwart the city’s gun buyback program, reports WBBM’s Political Editor Craig Dellimore. Mayor Emanuel says officials and community leaders will make sure that gun rights advocates don’t scam the weapons buyback program by…