Today's tactical flashlights complement a personal defense handgun quite nicely. In fact if you carry a gun, you should definitely carry a good flashlight. Seeing and being sure of what you're shooting at is part of responsible armed self-defense. Thirty years ago, cutting edge flashlights were SureFire 6p units that…

You have to admit, trying to defend school segregation in the face of the US Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education was a tough one for some racist bigots in America back in the 1950s.  Today, gun-hating bigots like Governor J.B. Pritzker and Attorney General Kwame Raoul are…

Democrats in Illinois have championed “criminal justice reform” for a long time now, implementing their Chicago-style policies state-wide where they could. What has this given us? Well, a judge in Chicago sentenced a 17-year-old drug dealer to three years of probation for stabbing a 15-year-old boy to death last year.…

Poor Kimmy Foxx, the Soros-funded prosecutor (who doesn't prosecute) in Cook County - aka Chicago for those outside of Illinois. She's got still more problems when it comes to ethics.  Well, that and domestic violence allegations from within her own home. But that's another story for another day. Okay, okay.…

Ladies and gentlemen who use marijuana recreationally or even medicinally in Illinois cannot buy firearms legally after July 1, 2023 thanks to both the FOID Modernization Act (thank you ISRA for negotiating this law for a "seat at the table" with people who wish to disarm us) and the new…

From the NRA-ILA On Monday, January 30, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) published the final Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached “Stabilizing Braces” rule for public inspection in the federal register. As we reported earlier this month, the rule would subject essentially all firearms with attached stabilizing braces to…

Today, the Illinois Fifth District Appellate Court upheld one of four counts in Tom DeVore's Effingham filing and the temporary restraining order DeVore won there. The appellate court tossed three counts from the TRO, citing that only the Illinois Supreme Court can consider whether or not the General Assembly legislative…

On YouTube, all sorts of folks are out there trying to make a buck or three by offering content. Some of it borders on very good. Some falls into the very poor category and most of it falls in the middle. Unfortunately, when it comes to information on guns and…

As of summer 2001, 61.35% of Americans counties are Second Amendment Sanctuary resolutions on the books, either by county level provisions or by state-level legislation.  They vary in terms of the teeth behind them, too.  Some (like most in Illinois) are largely symbolic.  Other states have provisions which will hold…

For those with stabilizing braces, the Federal Register will publish the new rule on January 31st.  That officially starts the 120-day clock to its effective date.  Of course that's assuming (you know how that goes) that it's not knocked down in court. Oh, PS:  Let the lawsuits begin. Here's more…