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Concerned about the Obama administration’s reckless spending proclivities or the Fed’s monetizing debt rendering your greenbacks’ value deflated? There are alternatives. Firearms and ammunition have long been recognized as a viable store of wealth as they will seldom go down in value if maintained. Here’s an article for your edification on this very subject!...
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  The latest idiocy from the Democratic Party of Illinois is delivered by the Cook County Board Chairman Toni Preckwinkle. Preckwinkle wants to tax the law-abiding gun owners in Cook County to pay for Cook County’s crime problem. Cook County mulling violence tax on guns and ammunition Drawing the ire of the gun lobby,...
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Whining from the left continues to grow as the election nears. Steve Chapman at the Chicago Tribune – a strong bastion of support for the First Amendment while working against the Second Amendment – laments the NRA’s endorsement of Romney / Ryan over Obama / Biden. Chapman wrote “about a president who promised not...
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  In a recent article, we noted that the Illinois Democratic Party has declared a jihad on America’s favorite rifle, the AR-15, and the background-checked and registered firearm owners who own them here in Illinois in a series of mailings in various legislative districts throughout Illinois.  News comes that they’ve opened a new front...
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Dear John, I’m so sorry for your loss, personally, as well as the loss to the GSL community.  Please accept my condolences, and rest assured that Paul will be in our prayers this evening. Paul is how I met you guys as I was finishing up grad school back at U of I in...
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    The Witchita Eagle has a splendid story about a gentleman with a carry permit who used his safety rescue tool to dissuade a young thug from completing an armed robbery in front of the good guy’s business. The good guy in the story, Steve Yager, exhibited good situational awareness, noting a young...
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Days of our Trailers has a withering attack on the civil-rights hating Democratic hack Marty Moylan.  He’s going to try and ban ’50 cal machine guns’ in Illinois. Wait.  They’re already banned in this state.  What is he talking about then?  Oh right. He’s talking about semi-auto firearms like the AR-15, not ‘machine guns’....
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by John Naese Paul Vallandigham was an officer and director of Guns Save Life, but he was more than that – he was one of the original founding members.  The first meeting of what eventually became Guns Save Life was in the basement of a restaurant in Rantoul in 1995.  Paul, I, and five...
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by John Boch It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Paul H. Vallandigham, a long-time gun rights giant in Illinois. Mr. Vallandigham was a life member of the NRA, a former director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, as well as a founding member of Guns Save Life’s predecessor organization...
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  Redress Information & Analysis (no, we’re not going to link to them and drive traffic to them) proudly and robustly proclaims it exposes “injustice, disinformation and bigotry”. Like many things on the internet, just because you claim it doesn’t make it true. In a recent hit piece on civil rights, Graham Peebles writes...
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