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It's nice having some genuinely aggressive, solidly pro-gun legislators here in Central Illinois. They include both guys in the photo above, State Rep. Brad Halbrook and State Rep. Dan Caulkins, photographed at the January Guns Save Life meeting in Decatur. Caulkins has since gone on to file his own lawsuit…

Get woke, go broke. That's a modern expression that proves itself out time and time again. Can you spell Bed, Bath and Beyond after they dumped "My Pillow"? Sucks to be an employee of Bed, Bath & Beyond Belief today. So imagine a local charity in Central Illinois. One that…

When authorities don't punish anti-social, criminal behavior, you will see more of it. Simply because bad people will feel emboldened to continue their misbehavior. Because working is for suckers. Meet scumbag Gio Rodriguez (pictured above). From CWB Chicago... Chicago — Just over a year ago, in December 2021, CWB Chicago published…

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul lost another case today. He can add it to the long string of setbacks losses he's endured despite the nearly bottomless well of resources the State of Illinois has available to him. Dan Caulkins, through his skilled attorney Jerry Stocks in Decatur, won a temporary…

Our friends over at The Center Square try to walk on eggshells, given they try to provide fair and balanced coverage and the political class in Illinois are by and large just a hint left of center. They just published a story about how court rulings against gun control schemes…

Kwame Raoul (not pictured at the top, that's Senator Don Harmon) didn't finish at the top of his legal class.  The people Raoul's hiring have not dazzled the courts defending the Illinois Firearms Ban Act that Gov. Pritzker wanted so badly. Lord knows Kwame's attorneys haven't impressed us even when…

Gun ownership represents freedom from both oppression and bullies. If you own a gun and know how to use it, you’re a free person. If you own guns, people have to convince you do things. They can’t intimidate you with threats of unlawful force. Meanwhile, most people don’t give a…

Mark Twain once famously noted that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. And in modern day Illinois, one can add increasing violent crime.  While a few of us might escape becoming the victims of violent crime, we’re all going to die someday - some of us sooner…

Every bank, pawn shop, grocery store and gas station would be required to have at least one armed guard on premises during regular business hours under a bill introduced by Rep. Thaddeus Jones. HB-1231.  Because the Mayor of Chicago has defunded the police to the tune of tens of millions…

We filed Guns Save Life's lawsuit a couple of weeks ago.  We filed it in conjunction with the coalition of gun stores, gun clubs and gun rights organizations known as the Illinois Gun Rights Alliance. Very late in the day yesterday we filed a motion for a preliminary injunction blocking…