Rapid Radios is a new company that’s spending big bucks on advertising promoting their product. They advertise them as "walkie-talkies" with unlimited range (always with an asterisk), and that will work when your cell phone may not. As you might imagine, all that advertising isn’t cheap and the units sell…

We found a few typos in this issue of GunNews after it went to press.  We're going to fix those and upload a corrected version later today. Join us Sunday at the Chicagoland GSL meeting. American Legion Post 1198, 1631 Western Ave. Chicago Heights Exhibits and conversation here at 4:30pm.…

Sometimes you see a screaming good deal and the little voice in the back of your head screams "wow!"  Such is the case for a pair of UV-5R Baofeng radios - the AR-15 of the radio world - on sale for a very limited time for $27.99 at Amazon.  …

They are touting it as "No Kings" mobilization.  What is it really?  It's the kickoff of the Summer of Love 2.0. You thought they had it bad in California after this past weekend. Folks, that's just the warm up.  These same NGOs want to bring chaos and violent protests to…

The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) has once again pushed some history boundaries by creating and marketing a “new” M1 Garand rifle made from surplus GI parts, some new parts, a new walnut stock and forged receivers and calling it the M1 Garand by CMP. Yes, it looks just like all…

When it comes to carrying a gun in locations that either frown upon or perhaps arbitrarily prohibit carry by law-abiding citizens, we've all heard the common refrain: concealed means concealed.  Indeed. That works well. But what happens in other venues that have trained security to watch for people who fit…

We thought they gave up the ghost on trying to milk well-meaning Illinois gun owners for money for their fundraising mailings and sparsely-viewed social media posts.  After all, direct mail to thousands or tens of thousands of people on a purchased mailing lists costs real money.  Of course, last we…

Just a quick reminder that Sheriff Jim Mendrick will join us at our Decaturland GSL meeting Wednesday evening! Coz’s Pizza 1405 East Village Parkway Mt Zion (Program starts at roughly 6:45pm) For more on it, visit this post. He'll also be on the local radio station 100.9 in a sit-down…

Holy SMOKES...Governor Ron DeSantis just bodied the Supreme Court. "The Court has more urgency in bailing out illegal aliens than in upholding the rights of Americans - even in regards to an enumerated right [2nd Amendment] in the Constitution." pic.twitter.com/b9dIiXvFKE — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 2, 2025

Our Constitution allows the American people—not the government—to decide which weapons are useful for self-defense. “A constitutional guarantee subject to future judges’ assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional guarantee at all.” In line with that principle, and with the tradition of prohibiting only dangerous and unusual weapons, we have never…