By Mike Keleher I recently won an Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) 17 round polymer framed Masada pistol, and have been testing it with great glee. (Deep in the year 2020, I rarely get to use the word glee in a sentence.) Not only has this pistol been free...I have also…

Ho ho ho. Merry Christmas! December 25th will arrive shortly.  In fact, the big day is rushing towards us like a freight train.  In this land of COVID and masks, we at GSL wanted to share some Christmas gifts that lean towards useful and helpful rather than a(nother) tie or…

GSL Executive Director ReportFrom the December 2020 issue of GunNews 2020. It’s a year we’ll all remember for the rest of our lives for many reasons. COVID, a bitterly contested election that ended in fraud, widespread riots nationwide, a loss of freedom including big tech censorship... what else could go…

Greetings! With excited anticipation, we announced not one, but two meetings coming this week.  Come join us and use your First Amendment Rights to celebrate, protect and defend our Second Amendment rights at GSL meetings!   Rantoul Tuesday On Tuesday, at the Knights of Columbus in Rantoul, we will meet. …

Criminal defense attorney Brendan Bukalski from the Johnson Law Group’s Bloomington office served as our main speaker at the Pontiac GSL meeting in October. He shared a tremendous presentation on the important role good attorneys play to keep you out of prison following a righteous use of force in self-defense.…

by Dale LockPlease allow me to introduce myself as your new president of Guns Save Life. My name is Dale Lock. I live in Petersburg. Raised on a farm in Fulton County, I cannot say that I “grew up” there as my wife of 45 years would assert that I…

  Peoria’s tech time presentation at a recent GSL meeting featured retired firefighter Al Devlin giving a short presentation on the proper and effective use of fire extinguishers. “Fire extinguishers?” you ask. Indeed. It proved a very educational presentation. Devlin talked about the four types of fire. Type A -…

  You would think after Illinois passed a law that mandated jail time for concealed carry instructors who cut corners in their CCW classes that unethical instructors would straighten up or just stop teaching. You would be wrong. We still get reports of instructors chopping four, six or even eight…

Venues across Illinois are being held hostage by Governor Pritzker's lockdown edicts.  Constitutional rights to assemble?  Ol' JB found a flu exemption to that right, along with plenty of others. We just received word this afternoon that Coz's in Mt. Zion, the home of our Decatur regional GSL meeting, has…

We have some meeting updates to share with the membership, friends and family.  It is current as of this writing and we'll update if anything changes.  Read to the end.  You'll be glad you did. As everyone knows, our governor and his administration have enacted all manner of lockdowns of…