HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Happy New Year! For guys who have everything, we've found something to put on your Christmas list for next year, a champagne gun. Anyway, we hope you didn't celebrate too hard. I know most of the GSL family were probably in bed before 10 or 11. You missed an endless…
THANKS DICK DURBIN: CDC Caved to Gun Control Groups’ Pressure, Removed Defensive Gun Use Data From Its Website
The Centers for Disease Control's reputation took a beating from its handling of the Chinese flu fiasco. Now, reporting by Stephen Gutowski at The Reload has taken another chuck out of the agency's damaged credibility. The scientists at the CDC have been busying themselves air brushing their website to remove…
LAWFUL, NOT AWFUL: Resident shoots shotgun-toting home intruder who played ‘Big, Bad Wolf’ kicking in bedroom door
Fee Fi Fo Fum. The bad might might smell the blood of a scared homeowner, but if that homeowner has a firearm to defend the home, the big, bad wolf might be better advised to go to church instead of commit home invasion robberies. A Nevada bad boy, armed with…
Auto-renewals for FOID cards for those with prints on file to start Jan. 1st
Our friends over at the Illinois State Police put out a press release touting that automatic FOID renewals will begin January 1, 2023 for those who have fingerprints on file. Each time you purchase a firearm, upon the FTIP approval, the FOID card will automatically be renewed for a ten-year…
Despite court ruling, 38 Illinois counties still set for “No Cash Bail” with the new year… IS YOURS ONE OF THEM?
THE PURGE law is set to take effect at 12:01a.m. on January 1. Yeah, moments after midnight, jails in a sizeable number of counties will begin releasing bad guys into their communities. Earlier this week, a judge struck down the measure as unconstitutional for the 64 counties who challenged the…
DON’T DUCK JURY DUTY: We, the Jury…
In regione caecorum rex est luscusIn the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King by Desiderius Erasmus, a GSL memberSo here we are in Illinois with the imminent start of the no-cash bail law, known more formally as the 2021 SAFE-T Act. As with most government initiatives, the…
DOWNLOAD AND SHARE: GSL’s GunNews January 2023 issue
We publish GunNews Magazine, Guns Save Life's monthly journal, each month. We print just over 20,000 copies and distribute the vast majority throughout Illinois, with a smattering mailed to members in about 40 states. Here's the January 2023 issue, chock full of information about HB-5855 and our response to it.…
BREAKING: Democrats’ ‘SAFE-T’ Act ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL…
Late Wednesday, a Kankakee County judge ruled the Democrats' "SAFE-T Act," otherwise known as the "No Cash Bail" law or the PURGE law, unconstitutional. The ruling will impact the 67 of 102 counties that were part of this particular challenge to the law. NBC Chicago has more... A Kankakee County…
Guns Save Life’s January 2023 Meeting Lineup
Join us in January at our Guns Save Life monthly meetings. We'll keep you up to date with the very latest on gun control schemes in the General Assembly, as well as news and analysis. Not only that, but we usually have some really good guest speakers as well. Here…
NOT NEGOTIABLE: A fundamental shift in GSL’s response to gun control proposals in Springfield
by John Boch For a long time, gun rights advocacy existed almost exclusively in the realm of lobbying those involved in the legislative process. The gun control crowd would propose their latest crazy bill, and we would go to work educating politicians in the middle on why it won’t work…









