OBAMA’S M855 BAN: Fraternal Order of Police agrees it’s not needed
The AR-15 is America's Favorite Rifle as it's the most common type of rifle sold today. It's sold even more thanks to America's Greatest Gun Salesman, Barack Hussein Obama. Recently, Obama announced he was making a proposed regulatory rule change to ban the M855 bullet used in 5.56mm rifle ammo…
CUT IT ALL: IL Gov. Rauner slashes anti-gun CeaseFire group’s funding
We applaud Illinois' new governor Bruce Rauner slashing state funding for CeaseFire, the rabidly anti-gun group that's a darling of liberal Democrats. The group hires gang members, child rapists, "street pharmacists" and other members of America's criminal class, paying them to "interrupt" violent crime before it happens. Tio Hardiman,…
THE NEW HOME INVASION: Thugs force owner to open big gun safe, then kill everyone
[caption id="attachment_15812" align="alignnone" width="600"] Photos courtesy WALB.[/caption] We wrote about the "new" style of home invasions months ago in GunNews. Basically, hard-core scumbags target homes with big gun safes. They don't come during the day when nobody is home. They come when the owner is home so he can open…
LEARNING FROM, NOT IGNORING, HISTORY: NYPD trains to counter Mumbai-style attack. Is Chicago?
It's a short story in the NY Post, easily missed by most. NYPD in training to combat potential ISIS attack The NYPD has quietly spent the last six months making preparations for a potential ISIS assault in Manhattan, which police fear could be similar to the 2008 terror attacks in…
US ARMY SPEC OP MARKSMAN: We can learn a lot from civilian shooters…
War is Boring has a post worth reading. I don't care for the title with it's objectionable pejorative, but it's good. In short, a top US Army Marksman tells why civilian firearm aficionados often out-shoot elites of the military -- and how the military's trainers could learn a lot from…
Eötvös & Coriolis Effects on long-range shooting
It invariably always pops up in the vernacular of people in person or on the Internet who try to sound edumacated about gun ownership - and those who pretend to be something they aren't. The "Coriolis Effect", they say, must be taken into account at long range shooting or you…
HISTORICAL REVISIONISM: “Social Studies” to please gun haters…
Introducing the latest Social Studies textbook unable to reproduce 27 simple words that comprise the Second Amendment. The screen capture below is from their website tutorial for students. The correct answer would be "NONE OF THE ABOVE", but I don't think that's the answer they are seeking in their creative…
You would have thought September 11, 2001 ended the days of “Just give them what they want”
Crime happens everywhere, including upscale apartment complexes like the one above. "Just give them what they want and you'll be okay." That was the catch phrase of civilian disarmament advocates throughout the 1970s onward. Armed violence was just a fact of life in the big cities, and sometimes it happened…
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GSL MEETINGS! Pontiac Tuesday, Peoria Thursday, Champaign next Tuesday
It's meeting time! Pontiac's meeting is tonight. Speakers include John Boch and Matt Painter, a custom kydex holster maker from Bloomington. Peoria is Thursday evening. The main speaker is the sheriff! Next Tuesday is Champaign's meeting. The main speaker is IDNR Deputy Police Chief Joe Morelock. Tech time is Matt…