IGOLD 2015 in pictures
The 2015 Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day event was held Wednesday, March 18th in Springfield. Roughly 1500 gun owners from throughout Illinois turned out to spend the day as full-time gun rights activists, rallying, marching, lobbying and making themselves known to the members of the Illinois General Assembly. The event…
WELCOME TO CHICAGO: 2 dead, dozen shot **on a Wednesday**! “Safe Passage” worker as shooter in one incident
It's gone from bad to worse in Chicago, with criminal violence spiraling out of control, thanks in part to generations of strict gun control and, of course, the Great Society programs that replaced fathers with checks from Uncle Sam. With gangs replacing father-figures in the lives of many poor, inner…
CSGV AD HOMINEM ATTACK: CSGV can’t win, so they opt for personal attacks and cyber bullying
by John Boch My lovely bride and I were out yesterday with a couple thousand of our nearest and dearest friends at the Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day. When we checked our email on the way home, it was chock full of messages about a Coalition to Stop Gun Ownership…
FONDLING TAURUS’ CURVE: Still the Taurus Turd? Not much has changed.
by John Boch In November 2014, I wrote about Guns & Ammo gushing over Taurus' new offering "The Curve" in a story here at Guns Save Life titled, "TAURUS TURD: Guns & Ammo loves Taurus’ new Taurus Curve, a curved .380 pocket pistol". Guns & Ammo's staff raved about the…
GLOCK 43: It’s (almost) here.
The new Glock 43, a single-stack 9mm with 6+1 capacity in 9x19, otherwise known as 9mm is featured in the latest issue of Recoil magazine. We've been hearing from industry people that it will be released Friday at the latest. Guns may start arriving as soon as Thursday, in fact.
IL WITNESS SLIPS: Help support common sense and thwart anti-gun schemes
There's a whole new crop of gun-related legislation under consideration in Springfield at the Illinois General Assembly. You can help safeguard your liberty (and that of your children and grandchildren) by filing witness slips opposing the anti-gun schemes that have been proposed, and in support of common-sense changes to…
THE CHICAGO WAY: Mayor Rahm meets with criminals’ families, not cops’ families
Did you know that the Chicago Police have shot an average of more than one bad guy a week for the past five years? In about 30 percent of those cases, the suspects shot by police were killed. Take your blood pressure meds then check this out: Families of Chicagoans…
FIGHT THE NOISE: Guns don’t have to be ear-splitting loud
Wanna win a can? Join the fight. from our friends at Silencerco... Our Voice Fight the Noise is a movement to regain our Voice. To exercise our right to protect our hearing and silence the sound. To be responsible gun owners and be treated as such. We want law-abiding citizens…
IGOLD, WEDNESDAY MAR 18: Make plans to be there in Springfield, IL
The Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day will be Wednesday, March 18th. Valinda Rowe, the spokeswoman for IllinoisCarry.com has said repeatedly that this is the largest gun rights demonstration anywhere in America. We would like to see it stay that way AND we should make it bigger. You can help and…
BUH BYE: Beck’s latest histrionics target Grover Norquist & the NRA
Glenn Beck, the master of histrionics, is at it again. He claims Grover Norquist - an anti-tax crusader who is up for re-election to the NRA's board of directors - is really a Muslim Brotherhood supporter and one of the most dangerous men in America. What on earth convinced the…