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(GunNews) - We hear from time to time how influential folks and gun aficionados in far away places read and enjoy our own GunNews each month.  We’re flattered to discover that the folks at Glock USA in Smyrna, GA read our humble little publication. We discovered this when they notified…

Sangamon County Rifle Association Guest Speaker Tom Shafer Tom Shafer addressed the audience at our Independence Day meeting and talked about mindset and tactics to survive a critical incident. Shafer noted that most of the general survival books mention basic stuff like how to build a fire, but it seems…

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="448"] Illinois hunters.Photo courtesy IDNR.[/caption] (This article was originally published in the December 2010 issue of GunNews by remains as true and accurate today as it was then as nothing has changed with regard to Illinois government misappropriating Pittman-Robertson monies.)   by Lee Williams Springfield, IL (Illinois…

I'm not a big Neil Diamond fan, but one song he's got has resonated with me and many others for decades now.  "America", or sometimes known as "Coming to America" was released in 1980, at the end of the disastrous Jimmy Carter presidency and by 1981 it was a number…

We at Guns Save Life are pretty proud of our GunNews Magazine, which serves as our monthly journal, done on an all-volunteer basis, primarily by John Naese and John Boch. We've been publishing it for upwards of twenty years.  Today we publish 14,000 copies each month, which get mailed to…

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="605"] Far-left, gun grabbing Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein wants to ban America's favorite rifle and many like it.AP Photo.[/caption] And Democrats wonder why they are often labelled the party of gun control, especially urban Democrats? Here's Dianne Feinstein, a sitting Democrat Senator from California, advocating a Democrat-sponsored…

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…