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Get your concealed carry training from the best training team in Illinois! GSL Defense Training is bringing its Essential Carry Course to the DeWitt County Sportsman's Club near Clinton, IL on July 18 & 19, 2015. Bring a partner, friend or family member and it's just $225 per person.  Single…

Charles Dickens wrote the classic novel "A Tale of Two Cities" in 1859. Today, the politicians in Wisconsin and Illinois are setting the storyline for the real-life story "A Tale of Two States" - at least where it comes to active-duty members of the U.S. military stationed in their respective…

More and more today, bad guys are opting for home invasions instead of, or in addition to home burglaries to get their loot.  Why is that?  Well, if bad guys come in when people are home, they don't have to wrestle with safes or find hidden valuables.  The homeowners will…

By John Boch David Fellerath has hit the big-time in recent days, with the Washington Post publishing his missive brimming with hate. His piece attacks things the great majority of real Americans in flyover country hold dear: gun ownership for self-defense and a whole lot more.  His screed is fraught…

  Editor's note:  Frank Sharpe, Jr. is the rather amazing proprietor of Fortress Defense Consultants, a firearms training company in Northeastern Illinois.  The Fortress Defense team specializes in advanced training and if you've got the fundamentals all taken care of, you would do yourself a favor by adding a course…

A 74-year-old Uber driver ignored the Uber executives' "NO GUNS" policy and had his Gat handy when he picked up a surly 60-year-old Gregory Mermel. For whatever reason, Mermel was unhappy and ended up choking the (armed) driver. The 74-year-old wasn't up for getting strangled, so he shot his attacker…

The Brady Campaign is struggling to keep cash coming in, and with a federal court judge's order, their balance sheet for 2015 just got a little less rosy. Many folks don't know it, but the Brady Bunch was darn near bankrupt in 2010 and 2011.  Their IRS Form 990 for…

A .22 rimfire for self-defense? It's lacking in so many ways and there are vastly better options.  However, a .22 on your person beats that 12 gauge you left at home.  Such was the case this weekend in rural southeastern Illinois. The Evansville, IN Courier-Press reported an Illinois Concealed Carry…

Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan, known to Americans as "Piers Morgan" makes it sound like America is going to hell in a handbag with gun-related violent crime.  Cleverly, of course, he makes no mention that the "no guns" nation of Great Britain has a higher rate of violent crime than America. He…

    Nobody likes to hear a whining baby. Sometimes though, it's amusing to watch an adult whine.   How America can free itself from guns By E.J. Dionne Jr. (Washington Post) - Advocates of a saner approach to guns need a new strategy. What?  Not getting anywhere with your…