“Affordable Bail” puts us ALL in Danger
[caption id="attachment_27331" align="aligncenter" width="770"] Base photo via CWBChicago.com[/caption] In 2017, Illinois Democrats introduced a bail reform bill that passed into law. The new law mandates that courts impose the least restrictive conditions possible for criminal case defendants. The law has made the Land of Lincoln’s “Catch and Release” criminal justice…
Read the Illinois Attorney General’s Brief in the Brown FOID Case
[Note: An earlier version of this had it as the "White" case, when it was Vivian Brown. We regret our color dyslexia.] A judge in Illinois' Second Circuit found the Illinois FOID Act unconstitutional in a case against Vivian Brown last year. We wrote about it back in March. The…
Odds and Ends From the NRA Convention
By Mike Keleher I went down to Indianapolis to walk the exhibition hall, see the latest and greatest gun related products, see some friends and a few celebrities. The halls comprise something like 15 acres of tables and booths, and while not nearly as large as the SHOT show it…
A New Zealand Gun Owner’s Plea For Help
New Zealand has become quite the hot mess for gun owners. Not only has the government gone after gun owners, forcibly confiscating firearms, but it seems at least one big sporting goods chain in Kiwiland has sided with the government against gun owners. Not only that, but according to one…
AZ DPS Joins Baltimore Co. Maryland In Replacing All Issued FNS Pistols After Discovering ‘Critical Flaw’
Two officers shot by accidental - not negligent - discharges of their FNS pistols, one an Arizona Department of Public Safety veteran firearms instructor and another in Baltimore County, Maryland led the Arizona DPS to investigate a potential problem with their standard-issue FNS pistols. Now, following Baltimore County Maryland's lead,…
Opposing HB96-Sample Email to my Illinois Representative
By Mike Keleher I just got a post card in the mail urging me to contact my Illinois Representative to oppose the contents of House Amendment 1 to House BIll 96 which is currently pending. You can look up your rep easily enough on the internet to call and register…
“Hotel Mumbai Movie”- Lessons from 4 days of Hostage Terror.
Photo Credit: The Guardian By Mike Keleher I was quite interested to see the new “Hotel Mumbai” movie and to see how the filmmakers would present the elaborate terror attacks in 12 Mumbai, India locations committed by Jihadist Pakistani Islamic terrorists almost 11 years ago. As it turned out, the…
Guns Save Life Website Hacked. Please be patient while we clean things up.
Guns Save Life's website has been hacked. We're working to identify the corrupted files and to banish them from our server. Please be patient as we work to fix this issue. Culprits? Well, the timing is certainly suspicious. Occam's razor and all that.
DOG AND PONY SHOW: Gun Control political rally in Chicago today
[caption id="attachment_27237" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Image courtesy USA News Digest[/caption] Spring has arrived, as has the annual homage to gun control by Chicago's political leaders. Every year, along with the spring flowers, these Chicago politicians trot out to announce all manner of gun control they claim will solve the horrific violence…
HACK: Illinois AG Kwame Raoul – ‘We cannot prosecute and incarcerate our way out of gun violence’
[caption id="attachment_27222" align="aligncenter" width="770"] WTTW photo.[/caption] Illinois has a new Attorney General, Kwame Raoul. He rose to fame by filling Barack Obama's former Illinois State Senate seat way back when. And now he's bringing his equally far-left perspective to his statewide office as the Land of Lincoln's top prosecutor. And…