We Defend Your Right to Defend Yourself
[caption id="attachment_10495" align="alignnone" width="618"] Dick Metcalf: Unemployed. Until his next formal job offer comes from an anti-gun group.[/caption] “The hijacking of our movement by these radical extremists causes me to fear for the future of the right I have spent my adult life fighting to defend . . .…
by John Boch Guns Save Life has been online in our current blog form for about fifteen months now and we continue to grow. Personally, I've always worked hard to grow and improve. One of my favorite strategies is to identify someone doing things well and then work to do…
Honest Abe Lincoln once was famously quoted as saying, "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." in the past couple of days, we've seen a pair of stories about low-information legislators that boggle the mind. Let's start with our…
Walmart prohibits on-duty employees and vendors in their stores from carrying weapons as a matter of corporate policy in all fifty states. With Illinois poised to join 49 other states with law-abiding, licensed good guys carrying firearms on their person, Wal-Mart's corporate people have caused all sorts of consternation…
For $71.50. Shop around, folks. Or just submit without fingerprints. Champaign County Sheriff Dan Walsh will be at the Tuesday night Rantoul GSL meeting. You'll have a chance to ask him why he chose this particular price point. -- John Fingerprinting for Conceal Carry License Applicants Beginning THURSDAY…
[caption id="attachment_10460" align="alignnone" width="640"] Public library computer work stations can be used to apply for a CCW license in Illinois.[/caption] We here at Guns Save Life have been trying to figure out how to organize a network of volunteers to assist those without internet access or those not technologically…
Graphic video. Don't watch if you get squeamish about blood. The first rule of using and storing a projectile weapon: Know your target and what's beyond it. This rule applies to staple guns... and slingshots as well. Know that projectiles may bounce back, as this German gentleman discovered the…
A great-grandmother in Shreveport, LA had her .38 pistol stolen in a burglary in December went to a local pawn shop and bought herself a new pistol for home defense. Little did she know that less than a month later, the same burglar - a 16-year-old thug - would be…
This Friday marks the third anniversary of the passing of Emery Gene Martin. Most of us who knew him personally knew him as Gene. Most who knew him on the Internet knew him as "Ol Coach". His passing was especially sad as we all knew it was coming. As I…
More bad news for gun grabbers! A federal court judge earlier today ruled Chicago's ban on gun sales in that city is unconstitutional. Oh, darn. That means another six-figure check from the City of Chicago to another law firm! Oh, double darn! (Buzzfeed) - Chicago’s strictest-in-the-nation law banning…