Chicago Isn’t Safe: Six dead overnight, many more wounded
Welcome to the Windy City, USA, home of Illinois' most stringent gun control. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, in Chicago handguns are effectively banned and long guns are heavily restricted. Only the affluent are able to navigate the onerous and expensive process to register them after attending expensive safety-training classes, rendering…
How to get your Curio & Relics License
[caption id="attachment_3565" align="alignnone" width="600"] Get YOUR C&R License![/caption] (Gun Save Life) - Guns Save Life is encouraging its members to sign up for a Curios and Relics Federal Firearms License. Unlike the retail gun dealer federal licenses, the C&R license is easy and inexpensive to get and it doesn’t have…
Gov. Clueless Quinn rebuked by Illinois Senate on his gun ban bill
[caption id="attachment_3673" align="alignnone" width="605"] Governor Quinn had a similar look when the Illinois Senate over-rode his gun ban proposal in a rare public rebuke to the Democrat governor by the Democrat-controlled Senate.[/caption] Illinois Governor Pat "Clueless" Quinn was resoundingly rebuked by a 49-4 vote yesterday as the Senate over-rode the…
Houston thug gets perforated…
Splitting this off into its own post... Young thug in Houston gets shot after physically attacking a store clerk. And, of course, the "black community" agitators are demanding arrest of the clerk for exercising his right to self-defense solely because the attacker was black. For the full report from KHOU.…
Tab clearing: Nov 28/29
Lots of stuff out there the last dozen plus hours worthy of mention, but not worthy of a ton of blog entries. Check these out: FBI Crime Stats: You are more likely to be killed by hands and feet than by a shotgun or rifle (Daily Caller) - The FBI…
Lessons from the Terror at Beslan (warning: graphic)
The good folks at Buckeye Firearms Association published an outstanding blog piece we republished in the August 2011 issue of GunNews. We bring the first half to you with a link at the end to the rest of the piece. It's MUST READ material for every sheepdog in America. …
Three rules about guns every kid should know… adults too.
Robert Farago at The Truth About Guns posted a story of taking his daughter to see Lincoln, the movie. He went on to write that after raising four daughters (oh, my!), he's distilled three basic ideals any child can learn about guns which they can understand. We'll leave it to…
Disarmament now, disarmament tomorrow, disarmament forever!
[caption id="attachment_3665" align="alignnone" width="600"] Alabama Governor George Wallace stands in front of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963 to stop entry of two black students, James Hood and Vivian Malone. Eventually, U.S. Marshals, Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and Alabama National Guardsmen forced him to…
ICHV Champaign Meeting notes
[caption id="attachment_3483" align="alignnone" width="600"] The "full house" inaugural meeting of ICHV in Champaign, IL as they strive to organize a grassroots group of gullible folks to carry out their mission to limit Illinoisans' civil rights. Check out the guy in the black t-shirt to the speaker's left.[/caption] by John…
After Action: Competitive Shooting Skills at Impact Training Center
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="425"] Photo courtesy Tactical Self Defense.info[/caption] by Kenny Polhamus Reprinted from the May 2011 issue of GunNews (Guns Save Life) - I recently had the opportunity to do some handgun training at the Impact Training Center in Mt. Carroll, IL. I had bought a certificate for the…