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Welcome to Chicago. [caption id="attachment_5362" align="alignnone" width="480"] Chicago Police investigate near a body after a shooting on S. Champlain Avenue near 75th Street in Chicago on Tuesday, January 29, 2013. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune) Caption by Chicago Tribune.[/caption]   Chicago's already off to a rousing start this year, with forty-some…

[caption id="attachment_5300" align="alignnone" width="600"] It was packed, standing room only at the January GSL meeting in Rantoul. Here, Frank Wright gives our response to the Newtown, CT massacre.[/caption] Guns Save Life’s President John Boch called the January 2013 meeting to order at 7:00 sharp. It was a chaotic night with…

It's here. Folks, there's a lot to like here. Todd Vandermyde did well on this bill. Guns Save Life stands behind this bill. We look forward to seeing it passed onto the governor's desk within 45 days, tops.  

Jon Hotchkiss, a TV producer and creator, wrote on the Huffington Post (fair warning:  it's an anti-gun hit piece that will make you hurl in your shorts, complete with a compensating for small penis comment) that firing the AR-15 and a Glock made him feel invincible. Firing the AR-15 [Rifle] Made…

Last night, at a local restaurant in downtown Champaign (one with a flair a little left of center based upon clientele in general), we overheard an interesting conversation. It was five university-types sitting around.  One with a Brit accent seemed to be getting quizzed by four others. Our ears perked…

[caption id="attachment_5296" align="alignnone" width="600"] Nicole Anderson-Cobb, left.[/caption] Champaign, IL (Guns Save Life) - The Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence’s ivory-tower hired-gun Nicole Anderson-Cobb, PhD, decided to have a sing-a-long for a group activity for the Champaign County Grassroots Chapter of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence at the Champaign Public…

    Some folks are thoughtful in their decision making, looking at empirical evidence, and applying logic and reason before coming to a solution. Other people rely on their emotional response and often emotions are driven by fears. This is particularly true for gun control. Folks who haven't looked at…

[caption id="attachment_5320" align="alignnone" width="514"] Maybe it was the big soda that irritated Bloomberg?[/caption]   So isn't it hypocritical that he demands you disarm your own ability to protect your family? At the US Conference of Mayors in Washington D.C. recently, a reporter asked Bloomberg if he would be willing to…

[caption id="attachment_5290" align="alignnone" width="550"] Don Gwinn addresses a crowd at the January 2013 Sangamon County Rifle Association meeting.[/caption] From the January 2013 Sangamon County Rifle Association meeting...   Don Gwinn addressed the audience at the Monday SCRA meeting and urged caution as far as our excitement over the recent Seventh…

Media Matters founder David Brock, a man who has wrestled with mental health issues for years, really did arm his bodyguard with a Glock 9mm handgun according to a story and documents uncovered by the Daily Caller.  That bodyguard, Haydn Price-Morris, carried that gun in Washington, D.C., California and a…