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  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…

  Bossy. That's a word that many don't want associated with Bossy Hillary Clinton. Hillary's campaign has been floundering for months now, a complete disaster for a woman who was the presumptive nominee a year ago.  She seems to have found a hot button issue that's resonating in the far-Left…

[caption id="attachment_18778" align="alignnone" width="771"] A photo of some of the guns Chicago "bought back" from us in 2012, even though they never owned them to begin with. Photo by me, courtesy Sun-Times.[/caption]   I must say, the Chicago Sun-Times has been fair and then some with us on this story. …

[caption id="attachment_18775" align="alignnone" width="600"] Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and Mayor Rahm Emanuel.[/caption]   Gun-rights group vows to game mayor's gun buyback effort (Sun-Times) - Hours after Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a $250,000 gun buyback program on Monday, a downstate gun-rights advocate promised to come to Chicago to exploit it.…

Do you have unwanted guns laying around your garage, basement or attic?  Guns that have been fire-damaged, or that have been recovered from boating accidents, or inoperable relics? We want them!  The more rust, duct tape or bailing wire holding them together the better. Help the cause of freedom.  Donate…

[caption id="attachment_18769" align="alignnone" width="600"] Click for bigger picture[/caption] by John Boch Got unwanted guns? We do. They are unwanted because they are broken down junk and we love trading junk for perfectly good cash - especially if they cash comes from the City of Chicago's coffers! That's right:  Chicago is…