Blog

Springfield, IL (Guns Save Life) - A new member of Guns Save Life in Springfield, a retired career military officer, has begun fanny pack carrying and was seeking some clarification on how to transport his firearms legally in Illinois. Following advice in a recent issue of GunNews, he found the…

One of our Guns Save Life members found this rare albino buck and sixteen other deer  dead, from Bluetongue disease, a viral infection. The albino deer shown was found east of Charleston, Illinois along the Embarras river.    

We at Guns Save Life have been working to educate folks that anti-gun laws, or "gun control" as the mainstream media likes to say, is a contributing factor, and not the solution to criminal violence. Well, it seems the gents in the ivory towers at Harvard have been stunned to…

The good folks at the Illinois State Rifle Association are hosting a right-to-carry town hall meeting on Saturday, September 15, 2012 from 10am to noon. The event will be held at the Double Tree Hotel at 10 Brickyard Drive in Bloomington. ISRA Executive Director Rich Pearson and other officers and…

[caption id="attachment_1672" align="alignnone" width="640"] A photo of the suspect in the armed robbery of a customer in the parking lot at an Indiana Wal-Mart.[/caption]   Guy watches for a customer to buy something he wanted then follows the customer out to the parking lot and robs him.  That's a lot…

  Grace McKee over at Packing Pretty had a great piece a while back that we really enjoyed, but did not have space in GunNews to reprint it. We bring it to you here.  Enjoy.  It's well worth the read.   ...Carrying a firearm is a sacrifice, a continual sacrifice.…

Tech Time Presentation by Phil Davis Reprinted from the Feb 2012 issue of GunNews. Phil, as usual, brought something rare and unusual to the meeting for members to see, a “ball and shot gun” by the Charles Lancaster company. It featured “invisible rifling” which was octagonal rifling that was for…

  Chicago (Guns Save Life) - Second City Cop is reporting today on a rumor making the rounds that a burglar was shot and wounded by a police officer's wife while her husband was away. One of the virulently anti-gun high-ranking members of the department, so the story goes, demanded…

by John Boch (GunNews) - Urbana's Stone Creek Church organized a gun buyback in Champaign on August 4th in an effort to get guns out of the hands of criminals. The event had been considered since shortly after the first of the year and the effort was bolstered by a…

[caption id="attachment_1646" align="alignnone" width="547"] Earl Jones points to where he shot an intruder in the middle of the night. Photo by Cinncinnati Enquirer.[/caption]   Earl Jones is the sort of guy you don't trifle with.  He's 92-years-old, sharp as a tack and has a John Wayne demeanor about him -…