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YOU CAN BECOME A GUN OWNER!

For a long time, a lot of people in Chicago grew into adulthood thinking that only cops and criminals had guns. After all, we all see police with their openly-worn sidearms on a regular basis and we constantly hear from the media about the criminal misuse of firearms in news…

Counter-Carjacking: Brian Smith in Chicagoland

[caption id="attachment_32473" align="alignnone" width="770"] Instructor Brian Smith coaches folks on how to resist a carjacker trying to pull you out of the car.[/caption] Not long ago, Guns Save Life welcomed one of the best firearm instructors in the nation at our GSL meeting. During his visit, Brian Smith talked about…

IT HAPPENED TO ME: Crime hits formerly ‘nice’ part of Chicago… resident feels MUCH better with a GLOCK in his hand instead of a phone until cops arrive

GSL’s new Vice-President John Coyne forwarded us this story from an Illinois Gun Owners Together member who experienced yet another “active shooter” on the streets outside his condo in his Jefferson Park neighborhood. This time though, he had a Glock in his hand. It happened in a solidly middle-class neighborhood…

G-PAC OUTING DEM CANDIDATES FOR IL SUPREME COURT? First Rule of Judicial Campaigning… ‘Shall NOT make pledges, promises or commitments… with respect to cases…likely to come before the court’

The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The first rule of campaigning for judicial posts in Illinois is that you "shall not: make pledges, promises, or commitments that are inconsistent with the impartial performance of the adjudicative duties of judicial office with respect to…

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR REPORT: RESULTS… Life is great!

by John BochGSL Executive DirectorLadies and gentlemen, life is good. In fact, life is great. Our side is using the Bruen Supreme Court decision as a wrecking ball against gun control measures across the nation. Gun restrictions new and old have fallen to challenges everywhere from California to Texas to…