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The Illinois State Rifle Association commissioned a poll of real gun owners, and asked a few questions of them. What are the survey results of the 4500 gun owners polled over two days? "No less than 99%" oppose banning America's favorite rifle, the AR-15. 98% oppose arbitrary magazine limits. 99%…

Marcus Hook mayor probed in gun incident at his home (Philadelphia Enquirer) - He was a guest at President's State of the Union address just a year ago. Now, he is under investigation for allegedly shooting a gun in his house and giving alcohol to a 20-year-old whom he threatened…

  Via Facebook: Apparently Gov Hickenlooper has announced that he will sign HB 1224 on Wednesday. We were asked for our reaction, and here is what we said: We have said all along that based on the legal problems and uncertainties in the bill, as well as general principle, we…

  (NY Daily News) - It is three months since the killings in Newtown, since 20 children and six adults were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School less than two weeks before Christmas. And as bad as the story was, and will always be, it is even worse than…

(CBS) — It was stunning for those who watched Thursday night as federal agents investigated a possible nuclear threat at Chicago’s Ogilvie Transportation Center. CBS 2′s photojournalist Lana Hinshaw-Klann happened to be at the scene and used a cell-phone camera to record agents in action. Reporter Dave Savini looks into…

Cook County has seen an explosion of surveillance cameras in public, but the same county is not at all keen to have the "little people" recording law enforcement there. So, they arrested the lowly citizens making recordings and tried to put them through the wringer. Well, that didn't work so…

by John Boch GSL Defense Training Illinois remains, for the time being, a disarmed state and as such, the single best weapon you can carry with you is your situational awareness. Bad guys like people who aren’t paying attention.  They make great victims. We sometimes refer to those unaware people…

Getting ready for class and GunNews deadline looms large, so posting will be thin... But here are some charms for you to enjoy...   Roy over at Days of Our Trailers loves following social media.  He found a couple of gems.  First, under Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs: Gun Control Activist:…

[caption id="attachment_6492" align="alignnone" width="630"] Gabby Giffords looking "tough" for her constituents with an AR-15 at a range.[/caption]   The Hypocrisy runs deep among those who would take away your right to defend your family with effective tools. Take Gabby Giffords, the brain-damaged former Congressman from Arizona. When she needed to…

Email from the Field Marshal of pro-gun forces in Springfield at the State Capitol: As we thought, the leadership is working overtime to try and find the votes to pass the magazine ban in the Illinois House of Representatives. We are working to kill this thing off again, but we…