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[caption id="attachment_31420" align="alignnone" width="770"] From left, Congresswoman Mary Miller, Kelly and Scott Hall and Congresswoman Lauren Boebert. Image via John Boch used with permission.[/caption] While most gun owners don't take a great deal of interest in politics, plenty of politicians take more than a passing interest in them. So with…

Lauren Boebert, the firebrand pro-gun business owner famous for her Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado defeated a five-term Republican Congressman in the 2020 primary election. Prior to that, Boebert and the restaurant gained fame for the waitresses there packing heat, openly. Later, Boebert won the general election, becoming Congresswoman Lauren…

Photo credit: fharbor.com(At least his finger is out of the trigger guard...) I have watched the national and state news this week trying to make some sense of all the new “almost laws” and threatened consequences for non-serialized homemade guns, and after considerable review I remain fairly boggled to see…

Some people are just nuts.  Others, with a heaping helping of evil and hate, drift from nuts to homicidal.   In this case, Adam Cobb, the man seen in this above bodycam still, went off the deep end and attacked his girlfriend who wanted to break up with him.  He shot…

[caption id="attachment_31347" align="alignnone" width="770"] Less than ten minutes from the start of the march to the Capitol Complex.  Note the wire service photographer on the left with his mask.  Outdoors.  [/caption] The Illinois State Rifle Association hosted the annual Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day event on Wednesday, April 6th.  Turnout was…

Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly passed a bill in the middle of the night last night that bans dreaded "ghost guns." But the bill's wording would do much more than outlaw home built firearms. Perhaps of even greater concern to Illinois residents and visitors to the Land o' Lincoln…

Well court watchers, this is yet another strange one in Springfield. Attorneys have been back in front of the Illinois Supreme Court in March of this year, in the same FOID Constitutionality case the judges declined to address last year. The Supremes have not been too welcoming to FOID challenges,…

[caption id="attachment_31309" align="alignnone" width="770"] Republican front-runner (and long-time GSL member) Darren Bailey at GSL's Sangamon County meeting on Monday, April 4th.[/caption] State Senator Darren Bailey, currently the commanding leader of the pack for the Republican nomination for Illinois Governor, made an appearance at the Guns Save Life Sangamon County meeting…

The Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day is scheduled for Wednesday, April 6th. While organized groups cannot enter the capitol complex, we were told last night that if you tell security you're there to see Darren Bailey or to visit his office, COVID tests aren't required and they will admit you. …

   Earlier today, 24 March, 2022, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) sent out a letter to all Federal Firearms License (FFL) holders advising of their new declarations related to Forced Reset Triggers (FRT). Short version of the message- they are machine guns, yes just the trigger parts…