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[caption id="attachment_8233" align="alignnone" width="321"] Angela Corey, the special prosecutor who brought charges against George Zimmerman. Screen cap via Legal Insurrection.[/caption] Legal Insurrection has been doing yeoman's work summarizing each day's events at the Zimmerman trial. Today, they took the opportunity to summarize the State's case thus far. Oy. As the…

WIN! one of America's favorite rifles! Guns Save Life's Great Guns V is here. Rock River Entry Tactical with Dominator 2 mount. FIRST PRIZE:  A Rock River Entry Tactical AR-15 with Dominator 2 sight mount. Brand new, in box. (Thank you to Hilltop Guns in Colona, IL for securing the…

Tio Hardiman, the former director of CeaseFire Illinois, whose contract as their director was not renewed after an arrest for domestic battery, was a happy man as the Cook County State's Attorney dropped charges of domestic violence against him this week. He's extra lucky, because he's got a prior domestic…

Canada's newspaper of record, The Globe and Mail, ran a glowing expose about Guns Save Life.com last week in the form of a 4:44 video documentary. The folks at the Brady Campaign, or Americans for Responsible Solutions, will probably think the video is 6:66, but that's too bad. Here it…

  [caption id="attachment_8213" align="alignnone" width="600"] Wendy Lund, GSL's First Lady, and Dan Rutherford at last night's GSL meeting in Pontiac.[/caption]   Dan sent me a note today after his appearance last night at Guns Save Life's Pontiac meeting...   Dear John, I disagree with Governor Quinn's veto of this legislation.…

Mayor Rahm Emanuel hates the fact that Americans, and indeed Illinoisans, have a right to keep and bear arms. So, would you believe such a champion of freedom and liberty would go out of his way to bring a muslim with links to islamic terror in to be Chicago's Comptroller?…

  No money for swimming pools for troops but Obama can blow $100M on an African vacation Pools are closed for our military because of the budget sequestration, the White House is closed for tours and there's still plenty of money for our president to jet away to Africa for…

State Senator Chapin Rose nails it on the head... And, for the record, Brandon Phelps has filed for a veto over-ride today.  The governor's proposed scheme isn't even going to get considered... I wrote earlier today that Governor Quinn's asinine proposal was deader than dead.  And indeed, it's just that.…

He did it.  Governor "Jello" formally announced his amendatory veto of HB-183. It's comical. 1.  I'm not going to detail the contents because it doesn't matter.  Quinn's proposal is in full arrest, just as it was when he announced it.  DOA doesn't begin to describe how dead it is.  That…

  From the land of the sheeple... Scared to death of something they know little about. Couple discover 7,500 machine gun, shotgun and pistol bullets in their back garden while weeding their pond Neil Tipping, 33, and Eleanor Mercer, 32, led police to haul in their garden Pair reluctant to…