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Ok, so you purchased your gun. You took some training. You feel confident. Now what? What will you do at 2am when the door gets kicked in? How will you respond in all of the confusion? Will you remember where your gun is? Will you remember how to load it?…

Hey hey hey. Looks like Red Jacket Firearms is in need of some new help to contribute to their abortion work at their shop. Maybe their last gunsmith ran off with the boss guy's daughter or maybe he just got fired. But if you're really good, and can impress the…

[caption id="attachment_3124" align="alignnone" width="635"] Photo by NY Daily News.[/caption] With hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers still cleaning up and without power from the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy meeting up with a Nor'easter storm, cold, dark and unarmed while looters ply their criminal trade in homes and businesses, their billionaire…

[caption id="attachment_3115" align="alignnone" width="620"] People Bank President David W. Thompson of Troy, Mo., poses on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, at the entrance to his bank with the sign he put up announcing that the bank is a concealed carry bank. Thompson always carries a gun. On Tuesday, Thompson stopped a…

  [caption id="attachment_3119" align="alignnone" width="600"] University of Colorado Boulder Economics Advisor Ken Bonetti holds a sign that he previously had posted on his door to his office, stating "absolutely no guns", but after administrators told him he couldn't have his sign, he posted a new one asking not to bring…

During Hurricane Sandy, we learned a lot about what our fellow citizens are made of. We learned of their character and in some cases, their character defects. There were many brave people serving those who were trapped and in need of help, there were also those who were preying on…

[caption id="attachment_2995" align="alignnone" width="472"] Promo material for The Hunger Games movie.[/caption] by John Boch Lots of folks have raved over The Hunger Games series of books by Suzanne Collins. I'll be the first to admit I don't keep current on the trash coming out of Hollywood in general but during…

  Chicago's Democrats have given up the idea of taxing your ammo in Cook County. They plan to continue with the gun tax.   Chicago's Cook County drops bullet tax, keeps gun levy CHICAGO (Reuters) - The senior executive of the county that includes Chicago dropped a proposed tax on…

from our friends at ISRA: ISRA Legislative Alert  The Cook County Board is trying an ammunition tax and a firearm transfer tax.   This is a direct attack on your Second Amendment rights.   If you are a Cook County resident, you need to do the following: 1.       Go to the meeting listed…

We love a good event. The freedom-eschewing folks at The Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence have invited *us* to their first meeting in Central Illinois, along with everyone else. It's set for Sunday, November 18th from 2-4pm at the Champaign, IL Public Library. Nicole Anderson-Cobb is the newly-hired "Outreach Coordinator"…