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[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…
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announced the framework of his coming amendatory veto of the right-to-carry compromise on Sunday in an interview which aired on Fox Chicago. Instead of displaying leadership on the issue of right-to-carry in Illinois after the December 2012 Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Illinois' prohibition…
Guns Save Life was dumped by our previous service provider and moved to a new server in early January of this year. Since that date, we've been keeping an eye on our stats and yesterday, we passed the one millionth unique visitor to the website in less than six months.…
Chicago had two dozen wounded and a couple killed this past weekend. New York City had over two dozen wounded with three killed this past weekend. What do these cities have in common (aside from would-be gun grabber, nanny-state mayors?) How about some of the strictest gun control in the…
From the Illinois State Rifle Association... They are doing great work covering the suburbs! If you live in or near any of these cities, your attendance is critical. Pick one, bring a friend or two and show up early. Two points to make right off the top: 1) Banning commonly…