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“Who is John Galt?” was the common refrain of characters in Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged.  In the book, productive members of a dystopian society in the US refused to be further taxed and exploited by government and society in general.  To varying degrees, they dropped out from being productive,…

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="738"] Photo courtesy 21st Amendment Liquors.[/caption] A clerk on his third day at work at a liquor store in Indianapolis early Sunday morning shot and killed an armed robber waving around a gun. "He took his eyes off me and that was a bad decision for him,"…

[caption id="attachment_2367" align="alignnone" width="525"] An HP DesignJet 3D printer.Photo courtesy Popular Science.[/caption] Well, a hiccup for Cody Wilson and the people at Defense Distributed, who are working to create a contest to build the world's first "3-D printed" gun. Boing Boing has the story... Defense Distributed is a collective that…

[caption id="attachment_2361" align="alignnone" width="559"] Miguel Gonzalez, 52, of Miami displays a sign that was sold at the 27th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference in Orlando.Photo courtesy USA Today.[/caption] The Gun Rights Policy Conference took place this last weekend in Florida and got noticed by the mainstream media this year! The…

[caption id="attachment_2358" align="alignnone" width="392"] Mayor Rahm "The Ballerina" Emanuel.Photo courtesy bollyn.com.[/caption] Chicago's "leaders", if you can call them that, are working hard to look as though they are doing "something" to lesson the violence plaguing their city. The latest do-nothing effort by do-gooders in the Windy City to at least…

[caption id="attachment_2355" align="alignnone" width="640"] Photo courtesy Univision.[/caption] Univision does the work America's mainstream media no longer does when it is the Democrats who might be embarrassed or exposed:  hard-hitting investigative reporting. Univision linked a bombshell report on how the Obama Administration's Fast and Furious program guns were used by a…

by John Boch (GunNews) - I joined about 15 other shooters on Saturday, November 12th for a fast-paced and very enjoyable one-day American Marksman rifle shooting course put on by the United States Rifleman’s Association. Mother Nature treated us to a blustery fall day with lots of sunshine early and…

By John Naese When discussing guns with gun control advocates, you can throw them off their game if you hit them with this little tidbit of information: Gun control laws were originally passed in this country to control minorities. They probably won't believe you.  That's why I wrote about that…

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="449"] Photo courtesy Animevice.com.[/caption] By now our readers have read about the utter fraud perpetrated by scientists promoting the so-called “global warming” agenda.  Few will disagree that it’s nice to see demagogues and scoundrels squirm in the national spotlight. Fewer heard the testimony of the U.S. Secret…

President's Column by Jim Butler, President Sangamon County Rifle Association We see the rights and freedoms our Founders fought and died for may soon be replaced by the chains of permanent bondage as the agenda of Barack Hussein Obama is being exposed more each day.  Mr. Obama’s deeds and policies…