Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show doomed Update 1/24: it’s dead.
Did you have plans for attending the grand-daddy of sports and outdoor shows, the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show held in Harrisburg, PA in February? You might want to reconsider. The show's promoters have banned all references to America's favorite rifle, the AR-15 and those like it. This is the announcement…
The Gun Control Community: Elation turns to depression (Updated)
by John Boch (GunsSaveLife.com) - Gun control advocates were elated in the days following the Newtown, Connecticut school massacre. They were elated not that children were slaughtered by an evil man-child as part of an insane rampage, but because they thought they could get previously rejected laws passed in the…
Behind the curtain: Here’s what gun banners want next
You've heard how they want to ban most modern firearms. Well, that's just the tip of the iceberg. It's what gun-hating Democrats in New York State wanted before they passed their horrific gun ban on modern firearms in the middle of the night before anyone could read the final bill.…
Attitudes about guns are changing, quickly.
[caption id="attachment_5093" align="alignnone" width="600"] At the Egyptian Collector's Association gun show in Springfield this past weekend, there was a line all day long. Even in this photo taken around 3:30pm, there was still a line to enter the show.[/caption] Barack Obama and Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn, along with the…
Northern Illinois gun control event blows up in the faces of sponsors
[caption id="attachment_5090" align="alignnone" width="600"] Those in the audience at the organizational meeting for a grassroots group for Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence. Photo by Glenview Patch.[/caption] It was a bad Sunday for sponsors of an meeting to create a grassroots chapter of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence at…
I am a gun owner
The Truth About Guns has started a nice "I am a gun owner" section. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. They should consider themselves flattered as I'd like to post some similar photos of visitors to Guns Save Life's website. Don't have to be a GSL member (although it's…
Thank you, President Obama! Really. Sincerely.
On this crisp January morning, the day of Barack Hussein Obama’s second inauguration (or his second coming, as Newsweek would have it), we find it pertinent to send a message of thanks to our enlightened and benevolent ruler for everything he has done for his humble subjects during his first…
Gunowner pushback growing against the jihad on guns
From Bitter over at Snowflakes in Hell, or as it's known today "Shall Not Be Infringed" Pagunblog. The Free Publicity of a Boycott They say that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Unfortunately for the Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show, I don’t think that’s the case for the news…
Casual familiarity breeds negligent discharges
[caption id="attachment_1057" align="alignnone" width="254"] Guns Save Life Secretary Bonnie Garrett.[/caption] [Editor: It's time to bring this one out of the archive and re-post it. Bonnie was spot on when she wrote this and given that there were three negligent discharges as part of Gun Appreciation Day events nationwide, it's time…
Welcome to Citrus County, FL: We’ll shoot you in the back
[caption id="attachment_5054" align="alignnone" width="662"] Welcome to Citrus County, Florida![/caption] Well, congratulations to Citrus County, Florida for providing America with the next Daniel Harless-style video. Harless, of course, was the Canton, Ohio cop who threatened to execute a law-abiding card-carrying good guy for having the audacity to lawfully exercise his…