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Guns Save Life, the Federal Firearms Licensees of Illinois, The Aurora Sportsmen's Club, Gun Owners of America, the Second Amendment Law Center and others are happy to announce that the trial begins next week in the cases challenging Illinois’s ban on common semi-automatic firearms, magazines, and gun parts (Note that…

Brace yourself for a bunch of stories in the next week or so about what has happened with our state's first-in-the-nation abolition of cash bail.  Why?  Because we're coming up on the first anniversary of this flawed and failed system.  Its defenders are trying to circle the wagons and ignore…

Guns Save Life announces our “Great Guns 2024, version 2.0” drawing.  Yes, Virginia, we’ll be giving away a Springfield Armory M1A Scout Squad on the Third Thursday in October at the Charleston GSL meeting. This firearm is (obviously) Illinois legal.  It’s basically a carbine-length M1A with a muzzle brake instead…

After almost a year under the Land of Lincoln's "No Cash Bail" law, we're getting a good picture of how it has impacted crime in Illinois.  Skeptics of the new law have had their fears realized, certainly in Chicago - aka Murder City USA.  Today, nearly 20% of those arrested…

How radical are Kamala Harris' beliefs on the 2nd Amendment? Well, let's let Eugene Volokh tackle this one. Kamala Harris on the Second Amendment A 2008 brief that she signed (1) argued that a total handgun ban was constitutional, and (2) strongly suggested that the Second Amendment doesn't secure an…

An anti-Israel / pro-Palestinian leftist, wearing a face diaper hung around his neck, suffered from poor impulse control in Newton, Mass.  He started by shouting at Israel supporters from across the street that they are sick and deflecting (?) genocide. When they laughed at him and called him stupid, it…

Set up:  New Jersey, in its effort to thwart the evil gun rights movement, established a registry of stores wishing to proudly proclaim themselves as gun free zones.  They even sent out stickers to this businesses to proudly virtue signal their victim availability status. Well, gun owners across the nation…

Chicago has a spending problem.  The activists running the city love to spend other peoples' money and they're running out of money to spend.  So they're cutting services.  Finally.  Included in this is fire and police. Yes, not having enough paramedics to staff advanced life support ambulances is...  a problem. …

John Stossel, like many of us, shows his age.  However, he's putting out some very good content, including this new video he released on his YouTube channel John Stossel TV. Have a look.  Watch example after example of politicians and Hollywood gaslighting Americans on the utility of guns for self-defense.…

by Mandi Ehler Bonfield, IL (ISRA) - A few years ago, I participated in Legally Armed in Detroit, a project by Rick Ector. In one weekend, we trained around 1,200 women in firearm safety and they also fired a handgun. The best part? We made it FREE to the participants.…