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  Grace McKee over at Packing Pretty had a great piece a while back that we really enjoyed, but did not have space in GunNews to reprint it. We bring it to you here.  Enjoy.  It's well worth the read.   ...Carrying a firearm is a sacrifice, a continual sacrifice.…

Tech Time Presentation by Phil Davis Reprinted from the Feb 2012 issue of GunNews. Phil, as usual, brought something rare and unusual to the meeting for members to see, a “ball and shot gun” by the Charles Lancaster company. It featured “invisible rifling” which was octagonal rifling that was for…

  Chicago (Guns Save Life) - Second City Cop is reporting today on a rumor making the rounds that a burglar was shot and wounded by a police officer's wife while her husband was away. One of the virulently anti-gun high-ranking members of the department, so the story goes, demanded…

by John Boch (GunNews) - Urbana's Stone Creek Church organized a gun buyback in Champaign on August 4th in an effort to get guns out of the hands of criminals. The event had been considered since shortly after the first of the year and the effort was bolstered by a…

[caption id="attachment_1646" align="alignnone" width="547"] Earl Jones points to where he shot an intruder in the middle of the night. Photo by Cinncinnati Enquirer.[/caption]   Earl Jones is the sort of guy you don't trifle with.  He's 92-years-old, sharp as a tack and has a John Wayne demeanor about him -…

    Matt Bracken, the author of the Enemies Foreign And Domestic trilogy, along with his latest novel, Castigo Cay, has a thought-provoking scenario for what happens when our government is unable to continue to provide Food Stamps and other electronic benefits to the masses. It's fairly long, but it's…

Gun owners, especially those who own firearms and have trained in personal defense, are keenly aware that a firearm can even the score against multiple violent criminal assailants, or aid the old, weak or disabled from a bigger, stronger violent predator. Many in our society believe hiding or surrendering to…

  Here's a video of a security guard, who we believe is probably a shooter recreationally, stepping up to stop a trio of armed robbers cold at an Internet cafe in Florida.  By the way, what is it with all the Internet cafe robberies in Florida, anyway? Here's the video…

[caption id="attachment_1449" align="alignnone" width="720"] This is the image that GunNews subbed into the space formerly occupied by an article about Lisa Madigan that we initially published then rescinded after permission was revoked. Graphic by Oleg Volk. Used with permission.[/caption] A picture worth fighting for... (GunNews) - Some say a picture…

  That's a real shame, we believe. The man whose administration brought us Fast and Furious, otherwise known as Project Gunwalker to many of us, is said by a Wall St. Journal reporter to not be campaigning for anyone but himself, despite his bully pulpit. The president does almost no…