by John Boch Trust me:  we have no love for Garry McCarthy.  He's the hard-drinking (drunken?), streelight-shooting (while drunk), skirt-chasing (or so the rumor goes prior to his divorce/engagement) political hack hired to mismanage Chicago's police department.   He's also the dim-bulb who said he'd encourage his officers to shoot first…

[caption id="attachment_17113" align="alignnone" width="640"] Arnesha Bowers courtesy WBAL.  No girl deserves what happened to her.[/caption] There are so many lessons to be learned from one of the most heinous atrocities committed by America's criminal class in Baltimore in recent weeks as they've become emboldened by the local police adopting a…

Tamon J. Stapleton, aged 18-years, was just turning his life around before heading off to an Ivy League college this coming fall to study quantum physics when he used a handgun with the serial number ground off to rob a Breadbox convenience store in Knoxville. Unbeknownst to Tamon, the female…

It's been light posting the past few days, but we'll tease you with a big part of the reason why:  The July 2015 issue of GunNews is now done, albeit about 24 hours past the deadline. Pretty much everything got left behind while we finished it up. And the tease?…

Illinois is broke. Social service spending, pension obligations and profligate spending across the board under the Democrat leadership of Illinois General Assembly the past decade plus has left Illinois broke. The "budget" proposed for this coming year is four billion dollars out of whack. Illinois new Republican governor seems to…

New Jersey has some draconian gun laws. Sometimes cops there don't use good judgement, either. Such was the case when cops pulled over a licensed security guard.  He told the officer who he was and that his duty gun was secured in the glove box instead of the trunk as…

THURSDAY, JUNE 11TH TINLEY PARK, IL [caption id="attachment_17084" align="alignnone" width="600"] Chicago's Father "Snuffy" Pfleger surrounded by his armed guards. Guns are bad, right? Except when they are to protect him.[/caption]   Father Pfleger, the hypocritical Chicago priest who hates guns but travels with armed bodyguards (Guns for me, but not…

With over 5% of the American population possessing carry licenses - or not needing them to carry a concealed firearm, there's inevitably going to be plenty of cases where they use their defensive tool to thwart criminal attack. A few of these cases even make it into the mainstream media.…

Democrats in Congress have been busy.  They want to spend $60 million on junk science anti-gun studies.  And now comes news that in the face of the TSA missing 95% of dangerous items that come through security checkpoints, Democrats' answer is to ban more guns. It's true. The TSA Fails…

Some at Harbor Freight Tools social media division stepped on a landmine last week when they replied to a customer inquiry and claimed their policy on guns was for customers to leave them in their cars.   The reaction was swift and almost universal in condemning the "please leave your…