The Wikileaks release of Sony Pictures emails is helping to paint a picture of how Everytown For Gun Control, Bloomberg's central gun grabbing group is promoting itself to potential donors. One new point we picked up was that Bloomberg is dumping $50M annually into the Everytown cesspool of paid…

[caption id="attachment_16407" align="alignnone" width="600"] St. Louis Metro Police Chief Sam "Snowflake" Dotson.  He's no hack - he's a special snowflake.[/caption]   St. Louis Metro Police Chief Sam Dotson has a message to the law-abiding good guys of St. Louis following three shootings in his city that have left six people…

Illinois doesn't have open carry (yet...). However, in most states, open carry is legal in one fashion or another. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's always prudent. If one chooses to practice open carry, one must be at a heightened sense of situational awareness at all times.  Even at…

A federal judge in Kansas City, MO has blessed a proposed settlement against Remington to fix alleged defects in the trigger connector of millions of rifles.  The approval starts the clock on the six-month window for objections to be filed before the settlement is implemented. We have mixed feelings about…

Pity poor billionaire Michael Bloomberg. His Moms Demand Action group is the laughing stock of the nation, thanks in part to their own missteps, their pathetic turnouts and public relations failures (along with Guns Save Life's ridicule).  It's hard to gin up excitement when you're reading off terrorist and criminals'…

ABC News World Headquarters' World News Tonight started off with another report  critical of police use of force in recent days, either without all the facts or simply in a rush to judgement against the police. "We begin tonight with yet a new police video under the microscope just as…

Shannon Watts and her motley band of supporters love to claim that those who legally carry guns are just itching to use it "Dirty Harry"-style (or on other days, vigilante-style) at the first opportunity because of mental disorders and/or violent tendencies. These same gun-hating extremists have been wrong in everything…

by John Boch Dudley Brown:  He's the head of the National Association of Gun Rights and the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, two supposedly pro-gun organizations that are as often as not aligned against gun owners' best interests.  He's also know as the guy who is always got his hand out,…

[caption id="attachment_16376" align="alignnone" width="600"] Anthony Porter, upon his release from prison in 1999.[/caption] Gentle readers, remember back when former Illinois Governor (and now convicted felon) George Ryan ordered a moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois because of the "wrongful" conviction of David Porter?  Porter of course, was the man…

The era of shrinking markets, circulation and advertising revenue marches on for domestic newspapers as Americas turn away from the old media and to the Internet and other media outlets for their news and information. In recent days, Gateway Media has announced they are closing three Illinois newspapers, as reported…