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If you couldn't make it to the NRA's Annual Meetings and Exhibits in the wonderful Nashville, Tennessee, here is a tiny taste of what you're missing. I couldn't be everywhere at once, but here's some of what I saw today before I left to return home. These are all in…

Nine acres. That's 392,040 square feet, or approximately 4.9 square feet for every man, woman and child expected at attend this year's NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits in the wonderful Nashville, Tennessee. The bulk of the event is being held at the Music City Center in downtown Nashville. I have…

I thought this was from the Onion. Twice. Anyone wanna bet there's a stronger correlation between anti-gun grant money and the authors of this story than any correlation between gun ownership and uncontrollable anger? Let's face it:  those who hate guns are scared to death of what they don't understand. …

South Post Guns in Streator, IL has acquired a Kel-Tec PMR-30 pistol for Guns Save Life's Pontiac meeting on May 5, 2015. What is a PMR-30? If you're not familiar with it, here's the description from Kel-Tec: The PMR-30 is a light weight, full size pistol chambered for the flat-shooting…

How bad is it for the "gun control" crowd in Illinois? Well, it's bad. In the past couple of years, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, or Gun Ownership or whatever they are called has: Lost it's long-time director Thom Mannard, as he saw the writing on the wall and…

  Yes, there is a free lunch out there. Compliments of the people working at the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and volunteer wingshooting instructors. Saturday, May 02 900 am to 400 pm Moraine View State Park 27374 E 900 North Rd Le Roy, IL 61752 (309) 724-8032 Open to…

At Guns Save Life, we call a turd a turd. A recent (as in days) shooting in South Carolina is a turd, no doubt about it.  The cop claims self-defense in discharging his pistol in the course of a scuffle.  Supposedly the suspect - a fifty-year-old man who is overweight…

[caption id="attachment_16242" align="alignnone" width="600"] Photo taken Tuesday afternoon of the crash site investigation. Click for full size.[/caption] Our condolences go out to the families of some fine people who lost their lives in the crash of a plane roughly two miles shy of the Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington,…

[caption id="attachment_16237" align="alignnone" width="595"] A cartoon from The Economist. We can only wonder what sort of bigoted caricatures they drew of black folks when civil rights activists were fighting segregation in 1960s America. While they might consider this cartoon satire, I consider it offensive.[/caption]   The Economist treats the world…

Child molester gets his just desserts in Michigan, courtesy of the man in chains pictured above. He freely admits he took the child molester's life. We say his cell is a good place to house the worst of the worst when it comes to child molesters. The child molester?  He…