SNOW AND ICE AREN’T NICE: GSL Decatur & Peoria meetings CANCELLED for February… We will meet in Pontiac Tuesday evening.
With the weather system coming in late, late Tuesday into Thursday, GSL's leadership has cancelled our Wednesday night meeting in Decatur and our Thursday meeting in Peoria. GSL's regularly scheduled meeting in Pontiac for Tuesday, February 1st will take place. Dinner and Conversation at the Pontiac Sportsman's Club start at…
New Illinois Expressway Shootings Map Released
In an interesting move this week, the Illinois State Police (ISP) have granted public access to an online dashboard map of Illinois Expressway shootings going back as far as 2019. They say it is “interactive” and allows viewers to get dates, times, and context about the shootings, as well as…
2022 SHOT Show Pistol News
Despite surging numbers with the Wo Han Red Death nationwide, the 2022 SHOT show, the world’s largest firearms related trade show kicked off yesterday and continues this week. I personally would have bet against Vegas signing off on the health issues to allow 50,000-70,000 people in chin diapers and hand…
Shipping Guns 2022
By Mike Keleher Well, I had occasion to ship a firearm this week, and as always, my sketchy post-COVID brain could not remember the best way to ship this item. Why I remember back in the day, just turning a rifle over to the stagecoach conductor and asking him to…
Cold Weather Concealed Carry Notes
By Mike Keleher With the wind chill in the subzero zone here this week, I thought I'd make some notes on Concealed Carry in the cold weather. Isn't it nice to get to have plenty of clothes to put over your best carry gun? You can even get those bigger…
“Enough is Enough” – Joe Perillo, Multimillion Dollar Chicago Robbery Victim
Photo Credit: WFLD Chicago Amidst the daily shooting chaos in Chicago, other lesser crime news rarely gets much attention. Last week’s announcement Cook County has had 1000 homicides this year kind of sucks the air out of everything else. That seems like alot doesn’t it? I am sure the city…
CHICAGO CLOWN SHOW MADNESS: GSL Executive Director’s Update
by John BochGSL Executive Director Oh, the joys of the stomach virus going around. It's put a lot of normal stuff on hold and had the washing machine going round-the-clock. The Illinois General Assembly updateThe General Assembly returns for the fall veto session as this issue goes to press. The…
ILLINOIS PASSED THE ‘ENERGY BILL’ THIS SUMMER: You need a backup source of electricity
Modern utilities in America, outside of California at least, provide mostly reliable electricity to consumers. However, things can happen. And when they do, you need a backup plan. Cables fail, trees fall and transformers do go bad. Ice storms and tornadoes also happen, along with politicians. Yes, politicians. On peak…
Watching the Rittenhouse Trial Unfold
photo credit: KCRA.com I have tuned in to an awful lot of Court TV this week watching the Kyle Rittenhouse trial kicking off up in Kenosha Wisconsin. I am keenly interested in this trial, and as it turns out it is getting nationwide daily headlines. This is one of two…