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[caption id="attachment_9296" align="alignnone" width="600"] The man anti-gun politicians and anti-gun activists love to hate: Todd Vandermyde. [/caption]   Todd Vandermyde, the NRA-ILA's contract lobbyist for Illinois, will be at tonight's Pontiac Guns Save Life meeting. It's at the Pontiac VFW (thank you to Jerry and our gracious hosts) and it…

We wrote last week about liberal, gun-hating Hollywood execs looking at big declines in ticket sales in 2014. Not only were ticket sales off well into the double-digits, especially among the young, but attendance overall dropped 6%.  Ouch. After the disastrous 2014, Tinsel Town is counting on some anti-gun 1980s…

It has been a good year for GSL's blog, just as it has been for Guns Save Life in general, and gun owners in most of America for that matter. Unlike the Brady Campaign or Bloomberg's host of gun grabber groups, we're not so bashful about publishing our stats.  …

  America's youth are abandoning Hollywood movies in droves and that's leading some Tinsel Town execs to panic.  Variety Mag reports: Americans aged 12 to 24 saw 15% fewer films in theaters during the first three quarters of the year, according to Nielsen. And in 2013, according to a Motion…

Illinois is hardly a gun-friendly state.  Yes, it's not Massachusetts, New Jersey, California or MARYLAND, but it's not gun friendly. Because gun ownership is so (relatively) scarce in Illinois, Prairie State residents get to enjoy (much) higher crime rates (4.15/100,000 violent crime rate)  than gun-friendly states like Indiana (3.46/100k violent…

Personal Defense World has an excellent post written by Massad Ayoob in recent days that's a good read for the legal nuances in the Castle Doctrine. Illinois does not have the full Castle Doctrine.  Land of Lincoln residents have what our attorneys refer to as "Castle Lite".  Almost as filling…

[caption id="attachment_15153" align="alignnone" width="720"] New recruits attend their New York Police Academy graduation ceremony, Monday Dec. 29, 2014, at Madison Square Garden in New York. Nearly 1000 officers were sworn in as tensions between city hall and the NYPD continued following the Dec. 20 shooting deaths of officers Rafael Ramos…

Good guys with guns are the only thing that stops bad people with evil in their hearts from destroying innocent lives. Yes, Virginia, the most effective thing that stops a bad guy with a weapon of some sort and evil in his or her heart is a good guy with…

The January 2015 issue of GunNews is posted and available. Dig in. If you would like to receive GunNews in the mail each month, at least a week or two before it's available online, sign up today for a membership in Guns Save Life.  We'd love to have you and…

You think you'll be safe in Chicago if you just hang out in the touristy, supposedly "safe", areas of the city? Think again, Buttercup. The random violence and criminal activity infects every nook and cranny in Chicago, but especially areas like the "NO GUNS" allowed Navy Pier, where gaggles of…