Action alert: Senator Andy Manar is one of those squishy Democrat Senators from downstate that's playing cagey and wiley in his support (or lack thereof) for gun rights.  We need to some gun owners from his neck of the woods to come out this event Saturday, March 25th. Jaenke Center…

[caption id="attachment_23615" align="aligncenter" width="535"] Democrat Kathleen Willis, sponsor of the bill to allow your mother-in-law to take your guns away.  Daily Herald photo.[/caption] Gun grabbers from across the nation have taken up residence in the Illinois General Assembly.  Tuesday proved a bad day for gun owners in Illinois.  In short,…

The anti-gunners not funded by Bloomberg sound increasingly desperate to keep their doors open and meet their payrolls.  They need a win in their quixotic quest to saddle the good guys with more gun control.  No win means fewer income dollars.  That means more layoffs.  This year, they think they have…

Bug-out bags, sometimes known as "get home bags", provide some basics to survive while evacuating from a disaster. While philosophies vary about the bags and their contents, are guns and/or ammo part of your BOB? You should have an emergency pack, or bug-out bag or whatever you want to call…

Amy Schumer holds a low opinion of the People of the Gun. Schemer eagerly bashes gun owners in her new Netflix special in a feeble attempt to pimp gun control. She makes fun of us for our opposition to her efforts to promote gun control. How dare we question her opinion? In…

  You need another reason to get involved at the local level?  Pushing back against anti-gun bigots by John Boch There remain plenty of uninformed, ill-informed and just plain bigoted people out there who don’t like guns.  Bigots in particular will discriminate against gun owners at any opportunity.  Our mission…

NBC’s Chicago P.D. television show draws lots of viewers each week (for a network series, anyway). Like just about every other cop show, detectives and beat cops work together, in the Windy City, of course, to solve homicides. Every week the brave good guys and gals get their man, or…

Good old Kamari is one of those precious snowflakes who had the misfortune of getting arrested for homicide in Chicago.  He beat the charges though - or so he thought.  Authorities released him from jail Tuesday evening after someone posted his bail.  We don't know if a discrete call got…

by John Boch Guns Save Life's Director Jim Sharp dies Tuesday at about 6pm in Bloomington at BroMenn Medical Center. His loss seems so surreal as I visited with him for almost an hour on Tuesday afternoon, just forty minutes before he passed away.  He had been diagnosed with pneumonia…

Winning feels good. Even better, the winning continues under President Donald Trump. On his first day in office, Trump’s new Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke reversed the Obama ban on lead ammo. The move comes as a welcome relief to the hunting and fishing communities. On January 19th, with less than…