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  [caption id="attachment_2451" align="alignnone" width="600"] A young man tried to rob Club Billiards owner Steve Yager outside his business Monday morning, Oct. 2, 2012, saying he had a gun. Yager said, "I do, too," and pointed his Smith and Wesson snub nose .38 special at the kid's head. The lad…

Days of our Trailers has a withering attack on the civil-rights hating Democratic hack Marty Moylan.  He's going to try and ban '50 cal machine guns' in Illinois. Wait.  They're already banned in this state.  What is he talking about then?  Oh right. He's talking about semi-auto firearms like the…

[caption id="attachment_2421" align="alignnone" width="915"] Paul with John Naese (left) at Guns Save Life's 16th birthday celebration.[/caption] by John Naese Paul Vallandigham was an officer and director of Guns Save Life, but he was more than that – he was one of the original founding members.  The first meeting of what…

[caption id="attachment_2417" align="alignright" width="284"] Paul Vallandigham.[/caption] by John Boch It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Paul H. Vallandigham, a long-time gun rights giant in Illinois. Mr. Vallandigham was a life member of the NRA, a former director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, as well…

  Redress Information & Analysis (no, we're not going to link to them and drive traffic to them) proudly and robustly proclaims it exposes "injustice, disinformation and bigotry". Like many things on the internet, just because you claim it doesn't make it true. In a recent hit piece on civil…

  What would you say to a group of politicians who wanted to ban America's favorite pastime, baseball?  But what if they claimed it was dangerous? You would think they were pretty out of touch, wouldn't you?  And you would be absolutely right. Well, the Democratic Party of Illinois (DPI)…

  Join Guns Save Life for our monthly "North Meeting" in Pontiac on Thursday, October 4th. Robert Rees will be our featured speaker, discussing the lifestyle change between the time he lived in Texas and when he moved to Illinois.   Guns Save Life “NORTH MEETING” 1st Thursday of each…

  [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="607"] Don’s Guns in Indianapolis where the attack happened. A customer there rented a gun, then shot one of the clerks twice. The clerk returned fire, killing the attacker. The owner of the stores said, “If you shoot us, we’ll shoot you right back.”Photo courtesy Indianapolis…

[caption id="attachment_2374" align="alignnone" width="672"] Photo courtesy NewsOne.com.[/caption] The 2012 elections are just over a month away and gun sales continue to soar as Americans vote with their pocketbook to acquire the means with which to protect their families in uncertain times. The National Shooting Sports Association reported that in August…

“Who is John Galt?” was the common refrain of characters in Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged.  In the book, productive members of a dystopian society in the US refused to be further taxed and exploited by government and society in general.  To varying degrees, they dropped out from being productive,…