Bobcats, Crow and Bears in Illinois
Conservation Police Officer Noah Workman rolled into the Decatur Guns Save Life meeting like a man who grew up in DeWitt County, now works DeWitt County for IDNR, and relocates mailboxes at speed while running blacked-out after spotlighters. He told that story on himself. The room laughed. Instant credibility. Noah…
Stricter than Springfield: Dealing with gun shops, ranges that invent their own ‘laws’
Illinois already layers FOID cards, universal checks, and a 72-hour wait onto every lawful gun sale. That is the statute. Sadly, there are some shops then invent extra obstacles to exercising the 2A and treat them as gospel. The wait is 72 hours from the moment buyer and seller agree…
NO BADGE, NO PASS: Don’t let a bully with a gun train you to look at the floor
East Peoria, IL (GSL) - On August 15, I walked into the Walmart in East Peoria looking for church shoes for the boys. I found a man playing cop instead. Just inside the front doors stood a young guy in olive pants, uniform boots, and a black T-shirt. Strapped to…
What a Viramontes win means for your rifle — and your dealer
by John Boch How does a SCOTUS win impact Illinois’ PICA law? The short answer: it’s a multi-faceted answer. The honest answer is: a win in Viramontes kills the heart of PICA. It does not, by itself, delete every line of the statute from the Illinois compiled statutes at 10:01…
Illinois Times ‘alternative’ newspaper is floundering in radical left positions, including attacking gun rights
Go woke, go broke. Some people figure it out the first time. Others? Their family trees look more like wreaths. The Illinois Times is a Springfield chapel that mistook an "alternative" weekly for a moral superpower. Because, of course, the already lefty mainstream media that few trust isn't quite woke…
GSL on ‘Catchin’ up with Carter’ Podcast… It’s a wild ride!
Geoffrey Carter was kind enough to put me on Catchin’ Up with Carter — Episode 177 — and I owe him a thank-you for the chair. His show started on a college internet station in Rockford in 2012. It has always been about interesting guests and a real conversation, not a…
Some GunsSaveLife.com Stats
Guns Save Life exists to defend your right to defend yourself. That’s the job. The last few months we’ve been feeding the site harder than usual, and the scoreboard finally looked back. September 1–19: 146,800 views and 137,200 visitors. That’s up 285% and 301%. Then September 14 happened — a…
GSL Mattoon tonight: fighting in self-defense is the easy part… surviving the aftermath is hard
Guns Save Life meets in Mattoon **Thursday, September 10**—the eve of the 25th anniversary of September 11. The topic is not “should you fight.” It is what happens after you do. Yeah, we know there was a typo that said Mattoon was on September 9th. Sorry. I don't walk on…
Guns Save Life Election Notice
Guns Save Life is entering its election cycle and is publishing the nominating committee’s slate. There is one vacancy: corporate secretary. Any member in good standing who wants to run for that office should contact Rich Goodall or John Boch. The secretary’s work is modest—taking minutes at the monthly Zoom…
Clancy copycat killing in ILLINOIS!
Corie A. Walsh of Frankfort, Illinois, has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder after her two-year-old son, Barrett (“Bear”), was found hanging from a basement rafter on September 1, 2026. A neighbor discovered the toddler with a ligature around his neck, feet off the ground, cold and pulseless.…