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…

A woman was at work at Dunkin' Donuts when her lunatic husband showed up in a rage and proceeded to hack her to death with a machete or short sword. If only she had the choice of whether or not to carry the means with which to protect herself. But…

Cops in Cottonwood, Arizona had their hands full in a Walmart parking lot when they wanted to sort out a disturbance at the local Walmart.  Seems a family of squatters, who charitably described themselves as a Christian Rock band, decided to get pushy and wouldn't let anyone into the store's…