FBI Issues New Active Shooter Report for 2016-2017 Incidents-Credits Citizens With Stopping Bad Guys With Guns
By Mike Keleher The FBI just issued a new report which reported statistics gathered with Active Shooter incidents in the United States between 2016 and 2017. They cited 50 such incidents in that two-year period and 40 incidents in the 2014-2015-time frame. One of the most interesting pieces…
CMP Finally Announces Dates and Prices to Purchase Surplus 1911 Pistols-Prices are a Surprise.
By Mike Keleher History and firearms buffs have been waiting patiently for two or more years for the actual release dates and possibly more importantly, the prices for the anticipated slake of WWII era surplus .45 ACP pistols by the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP). CMP sales have typically been quite…
Guns Save Life OPPOSES HB-2354, the latest version of the “Snitch Bill”
Democrat Kathleen Willis, a big fan of gun control, keeps bringing out revisions to her beloved Lethal Violence Order of Protections bill HB-2354. Yes, the bill Richard Pearson of ISRA dubbed the “Snitch Bill” over its original provisions to allow anonymous complaints against gun owners in an effort to strip…
Pistol Caliber Carbine Competition May Be the Fastest Growing Shooting Sport in 2018
By Mike Keleher The new competition kid in town, Pistol Caliber Carbine (PCC), which uses lightweight carbine length firearms primarily in 9mm, .40 S&W and .45 ACP has sprouted up almost overnight. The evolution of how PCC came to be so popular is a bit murky, but it…
ANOTHER ABUSIVE GUN GRABBER: NY’s darling of the Left AG resigns following horrific domestic abuse allegations by multiple women
Why is it gun control proponents have such a vigorous propensity to abuse others? Could it be scratch a gun grabber and you get a tyrant? Gun control loving NY State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigned last night following allegations of physically, mentally and sexually abusing at least four…
Gun owners are not second-class citizens to be marginalized
The mainstream media and leftist politicians have made gun owners the newest “undesirable” class of Americans. In essence, they’ve made us the equivalent of blacks in America before the civil rights era came along. We are to be segregated and marginalized, and subject to arrest and imprisonment if we resist…
ONLY IN CHICAGO: Man threatening to bring Orlando to Chicago released from jail
Meet Shane Sleeper, aged old enough to know better. He threatened to commit a mass murder at Sidetrack, a gay bar in the Boystown neighborhood of Chicago. "Orlando will come to Chicago," he messaged. Cook County prosecutors actually got off their hind quarters and filed a slew of charges against…
The 1986 Miami Shootout – Takeaways and Lessons for Civilians
by Steve Davis Guns Save Life President (This was the May 2018 President's Report as previously published in GunNews Magazine.) April 11th marked the 32nd anniversary of the FBI Miami shootout. It remains one of the most studied confrontations in the history of American law enforcement - right up there…
GSL, GUNS, SCHOOL SAFETY: “Gun laws, school safety topic of spirited discussion”
This past Sunday, Guns Save Life Executive Director John Boch joined the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence's E.D. Colleen Daley at Normal West High School. The two appeared as part of the McLean County Diversity Project forum discussing guns, gun rights, and school safety. The two met in December…
CORPORATE SUICIDE WATCH: Dick’s Stores hires THREE gun control lobbyists
Come right in ladies and gentlemen! Watch a corporate suicide happen in real time! Yeah, billionaire Edward Stack isn't content with virtue signaling his contempt for gun owners nationwide. No, he's been busily hiring lobbyists to lobby Congress for more gun control. Yes, he's pissing his money away because…