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[caption id="attachment_9742" align="alignnone" width="600"] Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, now convicted felon and prison wife.[/caption]   The Shylocks in Springfield are up to their old tricks. From NRA-ILA: House Bill 2265, sponsored by state Representative Michael Zalewski (D-23), is poised to create and impose harsh mandatory minimum felony penalties ranging…

  NRA trainers run the gamut from outstanding and dedicated experienced instructors to newbies (fairly common now in Illinois) to not so outstanding trainers. Then there are a small handful of unethical so-called "trainers" out solely for the almighty dollar, grinding large numbers of students through what are effectively "diploma…

Yesterday, in broad daylight,violent predatory thugs open fired on a group of people outside the Uptown Baptist Church, gathering for prayer and a free dinner.  Five people were struck by bullets in what is designated as a "Safe Passage" route for Chicago school children going to and from school. It…

Caleb hits the nail on the head over at GunNuts Media on his "How to" post about open carry. It's good.  Really good. It should be mandatory reading for those considering practicing open carry for advocacy purposes. We're going to tease you with the first four.  Read the rest.  …

One of our retired military members sent us this and asked us to post it. Seems like good stuff. Especially after a magnificent Guns Save Life meeting in Rantoul where members passed the hat to raise money for seriously injured servicemen to come to Central Illinois to hunt pheasants, deer…

[caption id="attachment_9711" align="alignnone" width="568"] After the Syracuse Honor Flight participants moved through.Photos via The Weekly Standard.[/caption]   Who would have thought our President would do more to barricade our nation's memorials than our southern border... And it's all a childish temper tantrum from the man-child President Obama. (The Weekly Standard)…

Paid Advertisement   "I came into the course nervous and a little uncomfortable.  I came out of it confident in my ability to use my gun to protect my family and with the knowledge of how and when to do so." --- Female, 30s, April 30/May 1, 2011 class. GSL…

  Meet the new face of the NRA in Texas. Well, one of the five million faces of the NRA. Her name is Matti Warren. And she works for free. That's not true.  She works for freedom and liberty. And she works with a passion that's just not found in…

  Moms "against self-defense choices", otherwise known as Moms Demand Action - no, not that kind of action by the way - put out this bit of agitprop trying to scare women into making their men divest themselves of tools proven to save lives and repel violent attack. One of…

Times they are a-changing. Remember when leftists of every stripe looked forward to the U.S. Surpreme Court's sessions which begin on the First Monday in October each year. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 2, 2000 12:15 PM CONTACT:  First Monday 2000 Gretchen Wright or Sarah Varela, 202-371-1999 Tens of Thousands of…