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The political commentary segments from the NRA are masterfully done. This one from Natalie Foster is very good. One line early on that caught my ear:  "I can name five mass murderers off the top of my head but I couldn't name five of their victims if I tried." "The…

Miguel at Gun Free Zone (put it on your regular reading list) has a great story today comparing the nations of Iraq (where residents have some semblance of a right to keep firearms in their homes) to Venezuela (a supposed democracy where residents have NO right to keep firearms). Interesting…

  The National Rifle Association has an affinity program with VISA, whereby its 5 million plus members earn sort of an equivalent of a "cash back" program for the NRA on purchases made with the cards.  The NRA says over $20 million has been raised through the program over the…

Nancy Grace and CNN are meant for one another. She's a complete drama queen, completely willing to try to make a dry dog turd into a major news story to retain her handful of low-information viewers. Then again, what do you expect from CNN, a network who tries to peddle…

  The Quad City Times reported it and one of our sources confirmed it: Look for the ISP to hold a news conference late Friday to announcing the mailing of CCW permits. Some may have them as soon as Monday. At this point, we're unsure how many folks they are…

by John Boch We posted a story about the extremely low rates of Firearm Owner Identification Card revocation earlier today.  In short, Illinois gun owners have less than four-tenths of one percent rate of FOID revocation, and most of the reasons for revocation have nothing to do with a criminal…

We broke the story to gun owners nationwide about Connecticut mailing a pre-confiscation letter to that state's gun owners who were late with their registration applications. Over 200 gun and magazine owners, with notarized statements and descriptions of their property listed on completed registration applications, were sent the letters, bringing…

The source is confidential, and unimpeachable. We'll let the numbers speak for themselves.  (Hat tip to The Truth About Guns) Let us put the overall number of valid FOID cards into a graph for your enjoyment...   You probably noticed the numbers of FOID cards revoked has stayed in the…

*Paid advertising* It's almost March.  The snow and sub-freezing temperatures will soon be gone.   It's time to think warm thoughts and concealed carry! The Illinois State Police will begin mailing concealed carry licenses any day now.  Yes, it's really going to happen. Even if you're not sure you want a…

    Lots of good news today. We crested 100,000 unique visitors, blowing well into six-figure land for the first time in our short 18 months online in the gun blogging world. In other good news, Hostek came through bigtime, helping to alleviate the heavy load our server was groaning…