All aboard the FAILBOAT! #Unforgotten.  It's a new hash-tag created by the desperate to maintain a sense of relevance in Illinois for the Illinois Coalition Against Handgun Ownership, or Violence, or something like that. Here's their email blast to supporters, complete with all the typos, warts and all: We are…

Chicago "urban" culture was on display this week on a Chicago Transit Authority train as a 15-year-old middle school student savagely beat, sexually assaulted and robbed an innocent woman. The train, of course, was a "GUN FREE ZONE" where the law-abiding Illinois residents who have concealed carry license cannot carry…

  The Brady Campaign made headlines nationwide by a lap-dog mainstream media in September 2014 when they announced they were filing suit on behalf of the parents of one of the victims of the Colorado theater spree killer. A social misfit who, by the way, bypassed several theaters closer to…

The Camera as a Witness? [Part 3 of the post-Ferguson series] by Frank Sharpe, Jr. Fortress Defense Consultants DTI Affiliate Instructor   “We each only get a piece of the elephant” – Massad Ayoob Ask anyone who works in the judicial system and they’ll tell you that witness testimony is…

Most cops are like most gun owners:  Good guys doing their job. Unfortunately there are a very few who aren't good guys and don't appreciate that civilians can own and transport firearms and are even less supportive that some civilians can even carry firearms.  Want an example? CPDman After listening…

Here's a great piece by Ron Martinelli about the reactionary gap and perception lag, something we touch upon in our GSL Defense Training Illinois 16-hour CCW classes and talk more in depth about in our Intermediate Personal Protection classes. Read it, learn it, be able to articulate it.  Note the…

  A few weeks ago, the Bloomington Pantagraph sent a reporter and a photographer out to cover the Krav Maga class I've been attending.  To their credit, they stayed for most of the class.  The reporter's take on the class was long on the "fitness" component.  "The latest fitness trend"? …

    by A. GunsSaveLife Member This is the first of an occasional series.  We’ll track the project, from design to completion.  We hope you enjoy it. Several years ago, when my wife and I first decided to take responsibility for our own protection, I ran out and bought a…

Gun laws are things that most people who hate guns don't understand. Then gun haters make fools of themselves spouting what they "think" is the law. It's embarrassing.  But do they learn?  Hardly. Such is the case with a couple of Congressmen, Ken Buck and Trey Gowdy, who posed with…

The four steps of the bad guy's attack plan are: Observe, Stalk, Close, Attack. Some gun-haters might be surprised that a "gun" website would say you don't even need a gun to thwart 90%  of attacks. Yes, it's true. Thwarting step 1.  Observing for "easy" victims.  If you don't look…