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[caption id="attachment_18153" align="alignnone" width="600"] GSL's Charleston Co-Coordinator Justin Bawcum, left, with monthly gun drawing winners Joyce Tarver and Dave Clark at the Charleston, IL Guns Save Life meeting Wednesday, September 9th. Joyce won a steel plinking target (donated by an anonymous Guns Save Life member in Pontiac) and Dave Clark…

[caption id="attachment_18142" align="alignnone" width="600"] Chrystal T.'s day of action. Note her bracelet as she practices shooting around a barricade.  Click for larger image.[/caption]   Peace is good, but having options when bad guys with evil in their hearts come around is even better. Today is the "National Day of Action"…

[caption id="attachment_18137" align="alignnone" width="650"] Rocky Schoenrock at his desk at the State-Journal Register. He worked as an artist, among other jobs, and painted beautiful churches in Central Illinois that graced the Christmas Morning front page of the State-Journal Register for about twenty consecutive years. SJ-R phot.[/caption] by John Boch General…

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A courageous police union in New England snubbed Obama yesterday at a Labor Day event in Boston. Why? Read on... Via Boston Herald: Jerry Flynn, a Lowell cop on leave while serving as executive director of the New England Police Benevolent Association, said his organization’s executive board has chosen to…

  Not one, not two, but three good Samaritans got involved when they saw a police officer in trouble in Pol County, Florida in recent days.  They probably saved the life of the cop that was attacked by a member of America's criminal culture following a traffic stop. Given that…

  The funeral for the Fox Lake policeman killed by a thugs a few weeks before his retirement was yesterday. It was an impressive turn-out of many thousands of upstanding people to honor a good and honorable man who gave his entire career to protecting good people, and was killed…

The Cornered Cat has a great piece about the value of training. In it, they explore the safety aspects learned in good training.  It's a great piece.  As a trainer of almost twenty years and a training junkie myself, I agree whole-heartedly with the author. Cornered Cat John Johnston, of…

Valinda Rowe, the Illinois Carry spokesman, met with the Illinois State Police a couple of weeks ago, along with Richard Pearson from the Illinois State Rifle Association.   Mrs. Rowe's first impressions of the meeting were very positive. In fact, from her post at Illinois Carry, you would have thought she…

It's a very small statistical sample, from a very dubious source, but they make a point. Hopefully their research is better than their knowledge of how to get a proper grip on a pistol. Study Finds That Chicago Criminals Get Guns From Friends, Family Not acquired from gun shows or…