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…
Local TV news gets pushback for anti-gun report from Gun Appreciation Day
[caption id="attachment_5039" align="alignnone" width="403"] WCIA Channel 3 claims to be the area's "news leader". A better claim would be for them to self-identify their anti-gun bias.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_5041" align="alignright" width="190"] Marsha Mohr.[/caption] Gun Appreciation Day was a big success nationwide. There have been lots of stories on the event,…
Honor Flight says “Thanks!” to Guns Save Life
The folks at Central Illinois Honor Flight sent this to Guns Save Life in thanks for what our family did for them at January's GSL meeting in Rantoul, IL. In that meeting, at the conclusion of a presentation on what the Honor Flight program is all about by Honor Flight…
Illinois Gun Appreciation Day rally a great success!
The Gun Appreciation Day rally in Springfield had a huge turnout, excellent speakers (thank you Ernie Johnson!) and was a great success overall. See below for some photos. The rallies organized by Guns Across America in Illinois and other states received significant media attention. Even some of the anti-2nd Amendment outlets,…