PRODUCT REVIEW: SafElert Electronic Safe Monitoring… two thumbs up.
I can sum up the Liberty Safe SafElert monitoring system in one word: awesome. This piece of electronic wizardry acts as your personal burglar alarm and status monitor for your gun safe. For creative minds, it would also works on your liquor cabinet or cigar humidor. Working tirelessly, it provides an…
AIN’T IN KANSAS, DOROTHY: Trio try armed home invasion over $300
There's stupid, Uber-stupid, and felony stupid. Then there's three "urban youths" from Champaign-Urbana who think central Illinois is just like Chicago. They got themselves a gun and decided they would commit a home invasion to recover $300 the rocket surgeon leader of the trio thought he was owed. What did…
KRAV MAGA: Up close and personal
We’ve trained in using situational awareness to avoid bad guys. For many of us, we also have training in using a firearm safely and effectively to save our lives. However, what happens when a bad guy gets within your reactionary gap? Krav Maga – “contact combat” in Hebrew – provides…
EIGHT MORE REASONS: Campus Carry Makes Campus Life Safer
Momentum continues to grow across America to recognize the right of legal gun carriers to pack heat while on college campuses. We all know how "campus carry" upsets a lot of gun haters. However, years ago those same radicals promised us blood in the streets if average Americans were "allowed"…
UNWELCOME: Chicago-style culture less tolerated outside of Chicago
Nothing good happens after midnight, especially when adding alcohol into the mix. Just that happened last weekend in Champaign (that's "downstate" for Chicagoland residents). A large group of people began tussling in downtown Champaign's entertainment district at about 1:30am. Entertainment really means bar district, for those leading sheltered lives. The crowd…
GOT YOURS? Peace of Mind is a Newly-Armed Spouse
The majority of Americans recognize that firearm ownership provides real protection from criminal attack. Increasingly, women have come to embrace the empowerment of both gun ownership and concealed carry in their daily lives. Yes, the fairer sex still lags behind in tooling up. However, women represent the fastest growing group of gun owners.…
Congressman on Virginia: “A Gun Saved Our Lives!”
A Michigan Congressman present at this morning’s attack by a Bernie Sanders supporter from Illinois says that a gun saved their lives. Rep. Mike Bishop described himself and his fellow Republicans as “sitting ducks” for the would-be murderer and political assassin armed with a rifle. He credited a good guy with a gun for…
Life’s Loser Attempts Mass Assassination in Alexandria, VA
One of life's losers, a Leftist lunatic named James Hodgkinson of Belleville, IL tried to assassinate a number of Republicans this morning. It happened at a ballfied in Alexandria, VA. Thankfully for all involved a two-person protective detail to Senate Majority Whip Steve Scalise saved the day by shooting down…
TRAINING: Personal Protection for Teens… Teaching teens to defend themselves, stand up to bullies
Clinton, IL (Guns Save Life) – Last summer, GSL Defense Training held its first Personal Protection for Teens classes. The program, held at the DeWitt County Sportsman’s Club near Clinton, helps empower teens and make them safer. Over the course of the day, they learned how to identify threats and avoid…
ERADICATION EFFORTS: Killing feral hogs by the dozen…
Feral hogs remain a growing problem in virtually every state in the USA. Including Illinois. They cause hundreds of millions in agricultural damage. Each year. Here's a video of a guy shooting 70 of the porcine rats in under 5 minutes..