We Defend Your Right to Defend Yourself
Camp Independence is the nation’s oldest and original preparedness gathering. The event started in 1968 with a small group from Chicago renting a single cabin at Tippecanoe River State Park in Indiana, and conducting outdoor survival training. The event grew over the years until Live Free USA rented the entire…
The Illinois State Rifle Association has organized the Illinois Gun Owner Lobby Day again this year. The event has drawn several hundred in recent years which is a very respectable turnout. Our fellow gun owners take time off work and family to make the trip, in part to remind Springfield…
Just got back from watching the new "Civil War" movie at the theater...remember theaters? Big rooms, big screens, comfy chairs but you have to go all the way down the hall to use the bathroom and you can't pause the film?I knew nothing about the film prior to arrival except…
UPDATE: The interest for this class has been very strong throughout Central Illinois and beyond. In fact, it's been so strong that we secured some additional instructor staffers to help with the class and now we're opening it up to twenty additional registrants. Also, for the record, for non-educators, we…
Repeat after me: You do not use deadly force to defend property. Come on. You can say it louder than that! You do not use deadly force to defend property. Some good Samaritan with a CCW license tried to dissuade some dude from stealing a pretty nice work truck in…
Patriots United for America and the Illinois Freedom Alliance have partnered up to bring us Grassroots Rising on Saturday, April 27th in Peoria. The event will take place at the Holiday Inn and Suites at Grand Prairie. Why should you go? Their speakers will share how you, one of the…
It looks as though we'll be going to trial on our lawsuit challenging the Illinois gun & magazine ban on July 8th. We're doing this so we can build a strong foundation for a final appeal to the US Supreme Court when (not if) the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals…
Ordinarily I'm not a big fan of the Armed Scholar, but he did a pretty nice job on giving a recap of where things are at in Illinois... With the exception that he completely missed the Viramontes v. Cook County case. It's ten minutes well spent. https://youtu.be/y03E3qM9fMM?t=51
The weather is beautiful outside. Nobody is throwing missiles back and forth between Israel and Iran and life is good on this weekend day. We hate to bring you back to reality, but just in case you thought the world had gone completely bucolic with peace and love in every…
A couple of kids in Fisher, IL, located just west of Rantoul, IL took the "Senior Assassin" game way too far by entering a fellow student's home, without permission or knocking. "They caught the family off guard," WCIA wrote in their story about the incident. How far do you think…
