At Guns Save Life, the Illinois-based gun rights group, we've lost count of how many times we've traded broken down clunker firearms to the "do-gooders" in Chicago for perfectly good cash. What makes it even more deliciously subversive is that we then donate the money collected to buy ammo for…

News hot off the presses.  GSL member Darren Bailey, the obviously strongly pro-gun candidate for governor, has pulled to within a statistical dead heat with multi-billionaire JB Pritzker. What's more, Pritzker's negatives are significantly higher than Bailey's. One other point:  Would anyone besides me believe that JB Pritzker is funding,…

Remember when just two weeks ago, Lady Box Wine and Botox herself appeared on one of the late-night talk shows to make a confident pronouncement:  "We will hold the House"? https://youtu.be/SVMONCDhxFI Well, like a woman who drinks far too much, that comment hasn't aged well. That's right:  There's trouble out…

[caption id="attachment_32411" align="alignnone" width="770"] Scott Preston[/caption] Meet Scott Preston. Ask Scott Preston how to wreck your campaign as a downstate Republican. He’s running for State Rep in the 91st district straddling Bloomington and Peoria. He had a pretty easy race until he came out supporting “commonsense [sic] gun control” in…

Meet Dennis Reboletti.   He's a former Assistant State's Attorney and State Representative.  He has been retired for a few years.  He has decided to run for Senate this year in Senate District 23 against Sen. Suzy Glowiak.  Needless to say Sen. Glowiak is not our friend.  Reboletti has carried…

[caption id="attachment_32458" align="alignnone" width="770"] Jesse Jackson, left and Father Pfleger. One of Pfleger's bodyguards is shown prior to his arrest for carrying a gun without the proper permits on the steps of St. Sabina's Church in Chicago.Image by Boch.[/caption] Chicago's Catholic Priest Father Michael Pfleger was suspended this past Sunday. …

A three-judge panel of the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a homeowner has every right to come to their door holding a firearm. Furthermore, doing so was not automatically justification for police to utilize deadly force against the homeowner. The case, Knibbs v. Momphard, stemmed from an…

The same strategy issues apply to gun rights activism... by Desiderius Erasmus, a GSL member You may be wondering why the pundits in the media always seem to get it wrong predicting winners and losers in wars or how long these wars will last. It’s because they only look at…

Don Tracy from Springfield, IL wrote fantastic piece that appeared at Real Clear Politics in recent days.  It's a hard-hitting piece and worthy of the three minute read.  I'll share a tease and then some analysis afterwards... Again, from Real Clear Politics. Illinois is more than its elected officials. Each…

Self-defense is legal everywhere in America. Even in Chicago. Even if you’re black, Latino, gay, transgendered, Muslim or maybe all of the above. But no matter where it happens, the color of your skin, who you worship or who you sleep with, the legal aftermath of using force in self-defense…