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 -…

    Matt Bracken, the author of the Enemies Foreign And Domestic trilogy, along with his latest novel, Castigo Cay, has a thought-provoking scenario for what happens when our government is unable to continue to provide Food Stamps and other electronic benefits to the masses. It's fairly long, but it's…

Gun owners, especially those who own firearms and have trained in personal defense, are keenly aware that a firearm can even the score against multiple violent criminal assailants, or aid the old, weak or disabled from a bigger, stronger violent predator. Many in our society believe hiding or surrendering to…

  Here's a video of a security guard, who we believe is probably a shooter recreationally, stepping up to stop a trio of armed robbers cold at an Internet cafe in Florida.  By the way, what is it with all the Internet cafe robberies in Florida, anyway? Here's the video…