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Photo Credit: WFLD Chicago Amidst the daily shooting chaos in Chicago, other lesser crime news rarely gets much attention. Last week’s announcement Cook County has had 1000 homicides this year kind of sucks the air out of everything else. That seems like alot doesn’t it? I am sure the city…

By Mike KeleherNext to Eye Protection, I treat Ear Protection (Ear Pro) as a close second when dealing with firearms. When I enter a range area, I put on eye pro and don't take them off until I am leaving the area or driving away. (I would encourage you to…

by John BochGSL Executive Director Oh, the joys of the stomach virus going around.  It's put a lot of normal stuff on hold and had the washing machine going round-the-clock. The Illinois General Assembly updateThe General Assembly returns for the fall veto session as this issue goes to press. The…

Modern utilities in America, outside of California at least, provide mostly reliable electricity to consumers. However, things can happen. And when they do, you need a backup plan. Cables fail, trees fall and transformers do go bad. Ice storms and tornadoes also happen, along with politicians. Yes, politicians. On peak…

photo credit: KCRA.com I have tuned in to an awful lot of Court TV this week watching the Kyle Rittenhouse trial kicking off up in Kenosha Wisconsin. I am keenly interested in this trial, and as it turns out it is getting nationwide daily headlines. This is one of two…

[caption id="attachment_30896" align="alignnone" width="583"] Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot - aka Groot (far right in the ill-fitting suit coat)- remains vertically challenged.[/caption] The incompetence among the political leadership of Chicago shines brightly as America's formerly second-largest city blew right past 700 homicides for the year two weekends ago (or was it…

Famed self-defense attorney Andrew Branca has written a piece over at Legal Insurrection that analyzes the Alec Baldwin movie-set killing of his Director of Photography and maiming of his Director on the very low-budget Rust film.  What's more, Branca has found legal precedence in the Land of Enchantment that negligently…

Bless his heart.  Really.  Bless his little heart.  Poor never-Trump neo-conservative Adam Kinzinger announced he's "retiring" from Congress today.  Would someone please pass the tissues?   Kinzinger, the guy who campaigned as a pro-gun sorta guy who then stabbed gun owners in the back with support for one anti-gun proposal after…

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For the September GSL meeting in Charleston, we welcomed local hero Angela McQueen as our main speaker.   Back in 2017, she thwarted a massacre at the Mattoon High School by wresting a .40 S&W pistol from a deranged student. She initially shunned the spotlight, but word of her heroic response…