We're getting all sorts of people asking us about fingerprints for the Illinois CCW license. Are they going to be required?  Are they not?  The statute itself says, "the Department may accept an application submitted without a set of fingerprints in which case the Department shall be granted 30…

"Guns Save Lives" Day - an event sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation - will be held this coming Sunday, December 15th. There is some confusion that folks think it's "Guns Save Life" that is sponsoring this event. Nope, it's not us.  However, Guns Save Life does support the concepts…

Wounded Warriors Project, the scoundrels who are eager to raise money from gun owners but who don't want to be associated or affiliated with gun owners or their charities (see stories one, two, three), is busy detailing their legal team to attack a small Indiana veterans charity who dared call…

The ISP are at it again, refining their proposed rule making. There are a number of things we find objectionable in it and we'll be formulating a reply in the coming days to submit as part of public comment. You can read it for yourself. Here.

[caption id="attachment_10120" align="alignnone" width="600"] Tio Hardiman and his wife Alison.[/caption] Tio Hardiman wrote some candid comments that caught us off guard. Yeah, this is the Tio arrested for beating the stuffin' out of Mrs. Hardiman.  The same guy who has a prior domestic battery conviction for beating an earlier wife,…

  FoxNews is getting around to covering a story we brought to you last week. The Truth About Guns also covered it (and was the lead that steered us to report on it). Yes, Virginia, New York City is mailing gun confiscation letters to those who have registered long guns…

  Guns Save Life's member David Martin is a remarkable man. He's not only nice to a fault, he gives of himself rather freely.  And while Mr. Martin is far from "fortunate" with his disability, he's there for those less fortunate than he, raising thousands of dollars to help disabled…

    Capitalization (or lack thereof) of the NY times name intentional. You probably didn't read this in the mainstream media today...   Congressional Study: Murder Rate Plummets as Gun Ownership Soars (Breitbart) - A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report shows that while gun ownership climbed from 192 million firearms…

We love happy endings. And this was a very, very happy ending for everyone involved, including the intruder who was shot twice.  (How's that a happy ending for him?  He lived.) This article is a well-done story of one family's proper planning paying off when a persistent intruder repeatedly kept…