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Yeah, he's such an angel.  He loves going to church on Sundays with his grandma.  Jaylin Williams, 19, was a first-time gun offender probation when he hopped into a car and drove off while the owner unloaded it in the nice part of Chicago.  As if there's a "nice" part…

Bump stocks were first invented in the early 2000s. Soon after, the ATF concluded that mechanical bump stocks qualify as machine guns under the National Firearms Act and Gun Control Act, but that non-mechanical bump stocks, which required the shooter to “apply constant forward pressure with the non-shooting hand and…

With a cocksure "We will see you in court," Illinois Senate President Don Harmon hammered the gavel down officially marking the passage of the latest gun ban bill in the Senate. This one, Senate Amendments 3, 4, and 5 of House Bill 5471, includes sweeping bans of popular rifles, shotguns…

  Every time you hear a politician or a media personality mention “gun violence,” you should mentally translate that to “gang violence.” Not only that, but ask yourself if that politician or media outlet has an agenda by mislabeling gang violence as something entirely different. Obviously politicians who have enabled…

by Marcus MelnickThere are many firearms organizations in Illinois, including, but not limited to GSL, State Line Rifle and ISRA. Online, the Illinois Gun Owners Together (IGOT) group was founded nearly a decade ago. IGOT isn’t a legal organization. It simply began as a FaceBook group of like minded Second…

It is almost as if our state’s political leadership is hellbent on legalizing crime without consequences. We tried a baby-step towards eliminating cash bail with the “Affordable Bail Act of 2017.” It has proven itself an unmitigated disaster leaving a trail of dead bodies and maimed survivors in its wake…

As the clock ticks down on this session in the General Assembly (noon on Wednesday is the drop dead deadline, pun intended), gun control groups and politicians are bickering amongst themselves.  Some, in fact, are threatening to withhold support of gun and magazine bans because they don't go far enough. …

At Guns Save Life meetings across Illinois, we welcome subject matter experts as our guest speakers.  Sometimes the presentations make history come to life with people who were there, such as survivors from the Bataan Death March, the Battle of the Bulge or the Iranian Hostage Crisis.  Other times, we…

"Leader" Jim Durkin has quit the Illinois House.  A couple of days ago, we wrote that we looked for him to quit at some point in this coming term because he was going to get primaried for voting for this gun and magazine ban.  He didn't even wait for his…

Merry Christmas!  The Senate Democrats have dropped their gun and magazine ban as part of a "Gut and Replace" amendment to a new bill. The new bill is HB5471, specifically Senate Amendment #1. Here's a link to the text. Expect a vote on it this evening. The word from Springfield…