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Illinois Carry reports on a series of bills we need to file witness slips either as opponents or as proponents. Some are bills that were rescheduled from earlier weeks. Others are newer bills. Thanks in advance for taking a moment to fill these out. As of Sunday evening, the slip…
A quartet of society's garbage decided they would try to pull off some home invasions in Joplin, Missouri bright and early on a Monday morning. Give them credit for going to work early in the work week. Sadly though, for this bunch of social misfits, the "job" then went to…
[caption id="attachment_16036" align="alignnone" width="620"] Two men were shot dead right there in this Austin neighborhood in Chicago. [/caption] With a total of 11 homicides and 39 additional people shot and wounded - just since last Sunday, plenty of Chicago residents are on edge about what the summer has in…
Here's something to brighten up your weekend, unless you're Rahm Emanuel or Father "Snuffy" Phleger! Guns Save Life is known for it’s popular and ever-growing monthly grassroots meetings in several cities in downstate Illinois. With consistent regular turnout between fifty and two hundred fifty people at our meeting locations, it’s…
The 2015 Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day event was held Wednesday, March 18th in Springfield. Roughly 1500 gun owners from throughout Illinois turned out to spend the day as full-time gun rights activists, rallying, marching, lobbying and making themselves known to the members of the Illinois General Assembly. The event…
It's gone from bad to worse in Chicago, with criminal violence spiraling out of control, thanks in part to generations of strict gun control and, of course, the Great Society programs that replaced fathers with checks from Uncle Sam. With gangs replacing father-figures in the lives of many poor, inner…
by John Boch My lovely bride and I were out yesterday with a couple thousand of our nearest and dearest friends at the Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day. When we checked our email on the way home, it was chock full of messages about a Coalition to Stop Gun Ownership…
by John Boch In November 2014, I wrote about Guns & Ammo gushing over Taurus' new offering "The Curve" in a story here at Guns Save Life titled, "TAURUS TURD: Guns & Ammo loves Taurus’ new Taurus Curve, a curved .380 pocket pistol". Guns & Ammo's staff raved about the…
The new Glock 43, a single-stack 9mm with 6+1 capacity in 9x19, otherwise known as 9mm is featured in the latest issue of Recoil magazine. We've been hearing from industry people that it will be released Friday at the latest. Guns may start arriving as soon as Thursday, in fact.
There's a whole new crop of gun-related legislation under consideration in Springfield at the Illinois General Assembly. You can help safeguard your liberty (and that of your children and grandchildren) by filing witness slips opposing the anti-gun schemes that have been proposed, and in support of common-sense changes to…