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PHOTO GALLERY Foosland, IL (Guns Save Life) – The Ford County Pheasants Forever Young Guns group brought their very successful youth trap, rifle and splatter-board shoot to the Foosland Sportsman’s Club on Sunday, August 5th. Between sixty and seventy kids participated at the event which saw shooting for about four hours.  There was absolutely...
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by John Boch (Guns Save Life) – I spoke with Pastor Gary Grogan of Urbana’s Stonecreek Church, formerly known as the Urbana Assembly of God church some weeks ago after the formal announcement of their gun buyback program. He claimed he was a member of the NRA and seeks more gun safety education to...
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PHOTO GALLERY Bloomington, IL (Guns Save Life) – Guns Save Life once again sponsored the longest-running Appleseed shoot in Illinois at Darnall’s GunWorks and Ranges June 9-10, 2012. It was a very family-friendly event and over thirty shooters participated. Two new Appleseed instructors were welcomed into the RWVA and two new Applecore support staff...
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President’s Report May 2012 by John Boch Firearm instructors often emphasize to their students that investigating police officers are not their friends when it comes to exercising gun ownership rights or in the aftermath of a self-defense incident. Perhaps we should spend more time teaching our students that mainstream media is also not their...
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OAG Report found poor management at ISP’s FOID unit, as 85% of calls to FOID office abandoned / not answered. As few as 40% of approvals within the legally mandated 30-days. 29% of denials took longer than the legally mandated 30-days. Three employees accounted for $239,000 in overtime No current administrative rules and policies....
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