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  Unit cost averaging by Oleg Volk     When the cost of guns increases, buy ammo. When ammo is too expensive, buy training. When you can’t afford training, invest in practice. If you can’t afford range time, have no ammo, practice trigger control and getting into firing positions. If that’s…

ISRA's Richard Pearson put this out this morning to Illinois State Rifle Association members as part of their Thursday update. It is well written and while a little verbose, it is spot on. As Guns Save Life's chief bottle washer and cook, I would even go a little further than…

  The law in Illinois says the Illinois State Police are to process FOID applications in 30 days. We'll save you the time and trouble of following the link and finding the relevant section.  Here it us:  "The Department of State Police shall either approve or deny all applications within…

[caption id="attachment_5586" align="alignnone" width="600"] Lt. Col. Dave Grossman addresses an audience in Jacksonville on how to make our schools safer.[/caption] [Editor:  We're bumping this to the top of the blog with the release today of documents about the Sandy Hook glory killer.] Keeping our schools safe By John Naese I,…

  Welcome to Alabama. Check out this exchange of emails between an Alabama resident and a racist bigot serving as a State Representative in Alabama, as reported by al.com.   From: Eddie Maxwell Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:54 PM To: (all members of state legislature) Subject: Gun Control and…

    [caption id="attachment_6749" align="alignnone" width="640"] Rep. Yvonne Davis.[/caption] Why is it some people can't help but open their mouths to confirm everyone's suspicions? Democrat Rep. Yvonne Davis, serving the low information voters in Dallas, TX, has proposed a new law to have the federal government remove the highest elected…

How pathetic was it? It took us a week to hear about it.   These are the same people who employed similar tactics against nuclear weapons back in the 80s. [caption id="attachment_6728" align="alignnone" width="390"] Oct. 1983 in Columbus, OH.[/caption]   These fringe leftists believe if we just surrender all our…

The Chicago Democratic "Machine". The people who have brought slums and urban despair to Chicagoland. The people who brought strict gun control to keep the population defenseless against criminal attack - and kept the people reliant upon government instead of themselves for their own safety and well-being. The people who…

Chicago's dismal rate of solving homicides is truly abysmal.   A 26% clearance rate, according to the cops. (Chicago Magazine) -  ...Only 132 of the 507 murder cases in the city last year were closed last year. That makes for a homicide clearance rate of 26 percent—the lowest in two…

...Well, sort of. Obama called Government Motors a "pillar of our economy" back in 2009 when he gave GM to the UAW. In 2013, firearms manufacturing is twice as big, in terms of jobs, as GM in all of North America. Which, according to simple math, means guns are two…