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Chicago insiders have just been exposed for reclassifying lots and lots of homicides in Chicago into non-criminal deaths.  Not only does this unethical airbrushing of data save Chicago politicians the embarrassment of another homicide victim, it allows the Chicago Police Department to avoid the humiliation of yet another unsolved homicide.

Everyone wins, except the people of Chicago of course.

Chicago (Chicago Magazine) – … On October 28, [2013] a pathologist ruled the death of Tiara Groves a homicide by “unspecified means.” This rare ruling means yes, somebody had killed Groves, but the pathologist couldn’t pinpoint the exact cause

Funeral Services Notice:
10:00 AM Friday, April 11, 2014
HOMECOMING CELEBRATION
Mr. Otis W. McDonald
Sept. 17, 1933 ~ Apr. 4, 2014
Bethlehem Temple Missionary Baptist Church
20 East 147th Street & Ashland
Harvey, Illinois 60426
Rev. Dr. Fred Jones, Officiating

Real firearms training, not just an auditorium full of people listening to a lecture about gun safety and a little bit of legal considerations as part of a 4-hour Utah “class”.  This one involves shooting, gun handling and more shooting by good instructors.  Here’s the press release:

TrainIllinois is now teaching concealed carry classes, hosted at SIUC’s Touch of Nature. Our concealed carry classes exceed the minimum requirements established by the Illinois State Police. Our classes enable our students to carry safely and create a large knowledge base so that first-time shooters and experienced firearms users alike can make an educated decision on how to properly incorporate concealed carry with their lifestyle.

TrainIllinois makes these classes available to U.S. Citizens, 20 years of age or older, with a clean criminal record. We provide more than 20 firearms, a variety of holsters, and ammunition in class so that our students can learn to properly handle a

Yet another peer-reviewed study has been publish in the journal Applied Economics Letters.  The research was conducted by economist Mark Gius.

Here’s the abstract:

The purpose of the present study is to determine the effects of state-level assault weapons bans and concealed weapons laws on state-level murder rates. Using data for the period 1980 to 2009 and controlling for state and year fixed effects, the results of the present study suggest that states with restrictions on the carrying of concealed weapons had higher gun-related murder rates than other states. It was also found that assault weapons bans did not significantly affect murder rates at the state level. These results suggest that restrictive concealed weapons laws may cause an increase in gun-related murders at the state level. The results of this study are consistent with some prior research in this area, most

Here’s one for the low-information politician files…

Democrat Missouri Rep. Joshua Peters (pictured above) introduced a bill to ban a host of guns commonly used for self-defense, effectively pricing meaningful self-defense outside that of many of his minority constituents in the north end of St. Louis.  This is the same thing racist legislatures in the southern states did following the Civil War to keep guns out of the hands of recently-freed, cash-poor former slaves.

Yes, you read right.  A black man seeking to restrict the rights of his fellow black man.  The Klan couldn’t be prouder.

And good old Joshua Peters has got the cajones to call his bill the “Protecting the Second Amendment Act”.

What a sanctimonious S.O.B.

571.520. 1. This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Protecting th

Good news from Wisconsin!

They have amended their reciprocity information page with the addition Illinois CCW licenses to those recognized in Wisconsin.

Permit(s) Honored In Wisconsin:

Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virgin Islands, Washington, Wyoming

This is particularly good news for northern Illinois residents who wish to escape the insanely dangerous and violence-plagued Chicago for leisure, recreation or whatever.  Now destinations in Wisconsin are available to those who prefer to take their firearm with them during their travels

(Chicago Tribune) – A 53-year-old South Austin man with a valid concealed carry permit was able to shoot at two men who tried to accost him outside of his home early this morning.

The incident happened about 2:40 a.m. on the 5400 block of West Van Buren Street, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Michael Sullivan.

The man was walking from his garage to the front of his home when two males in hoodies appeared in a gangway between his home and the neighbor’s home, Sullivan said.

One of the two men pulled a handgun from his waistband and pointed at the man who took out his own gun and managed to fire several times at the males, Sullivan said.

The males fled the area without being struck and the shooting did not result in any property damage, police said.<

Raisin Shaw, booking photo from 2011.

Raisin Shaw, booking 2014.

We wrote about Chicago cops shooting 20-year-old Raason Shaw.  We called him “Raisin” because that’s how we think he probably pronounced it.

Just as a guy we knew as “DEATHRAY” pronounced his name “Dee-ought-tray”.

Anyway, low-information “Raisin” is being portrayed as the choirboy angel by

The Moms Demand Action (go to a singles bar, ladies) troupe are out with their latest attempt to create a meme in social media – as though social media participation equates to grassroots advocacy.  The Moms girls have, of course, sold themselves to Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns as they couldn’t generate enough cash on their own to pay their dedicated staff of paid activists.

Their latest propaganda?

Equating gun ownership with cigarette smoking.  It’s from their Facebook page, and no, we’re not going to link to it to drive eyeballs to the page.

Otis McDonald in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building.

We have lost one of our generation’s great civil right icons.

It is with great sadness that we must report Otis McDonald has passed away.

He died yesterday, succumbing to a battle with cancer.  He was 80 years old.

Mr. Otis W. McDonald, born September 17, 1933 died yesterday April 4, 2014. He was 80 years old.

On behalf of the McDonald Family I want to say thanks to all of you for your support and prayers! Funeral arrangements are pending and just as soon as that information is finalized we will update you immediately.

Many of you have asked, “what can I do?” Please send a card, a donation and or a note directly to my Aunt Laura: She would appreciate hearing from all of you who love and support my Uncle Otis and her husband.

Mrs. Laura McDonald
10752 So. Church St.
Chicago, IL 60

There are some profound words from Adam Baldwin of late, with a hat tip to The Truth About Guns.

Actor Baldwin sent this around social media circles via Twitter, boomeranging Moms Demand Action’s latest stunt.

Here it is:

Read it again.

He tags his post with an image:

Bob Costas was the guest of late, late night TV on Seth Meyers’ “Late Night” program.

Of course, Mr. Costas, the mental giant who wears makeup to go on TV to talk about men playing sports most of the time, lamented the “gun culture” among athletes.  He referenced (blamed?) that culture on “dozens, if not hundreds of sorry incidents” of those athletes misusing guns.

He went on to pontificate:

Let’s make a bet, you and me. Let’s say over the next five years we’ll do a Google search. We’ll have an independent party monitor it. You keep track of how many good and constructive things are associated with athletes having a gun, and I’ll keep track of all

Illinois politicians work to admirably protect the First Amendment right to vote…

SPRINGFIELD (Tribune) — Illinois would beef up protections of eligible voters to ensure they can register and cast a ballot without fear of voter suppression under a measure Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan advanced Tuesday.

The proposed constitutional amendment, which would be placed on the November ballot, says no person should be denied voter rights based on race, color, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, language or income.

The measure seeks to counter a U.S. Supreme Court June 2013 ruling that dislodged part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and prompted eight

SIG tipped us and a whole bunch of other blogs off regarding a determination letter from ATF regarding firing their “pistol” as a rifle, thanks to the SIG “Stabilization Brace”.

SIG BATFE LETTER

Here’s the text:

Dear Sgt. Bradley:

This is in response to your communication dated January 24, 2014, to the

Bravo!

Hopefully after the governor signs this bill, charges against Marissa Alexander (pictured above) will be dropped.

Legal Insurrection has a very good summary:

So, what exactly does SB-448 do (note: the full text of the proposed bill is embedded at the bottom of this post, but all hyperlinks are to the statutes as they currently exist prior to modification by SB-448)? Here’s a bulleted list, with details below. In summary SB-448 provides:

• No statutory authorization for firing “warning shots”—indeed, the statutory language would deny justification to any “warning shot” that “poses a th

The AP report noted:

[Scumbag's name redacted] never saw combat during a deployment to Iraq and had shown no apparent risk of violence before the shooting, officials said…

So he wasn’t a traumatized veteran as the mainstream media tried to portray him.  Instead, he was just a whack job angry with the world.

[Scumbag's name redacted] apparently walked into a building Wednesday and began firing a .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol. He then got into a vehicle and continued firing before driving to another building. He was eventually confronted by military p

Lots of details coming out about the Ft. Hood massacre today.

Shooter offed himself, as is customary in these spree killings.

Shooter is said to be, by CNN, Ivan Lopez.

Oh yeah, did we mention Ft. Hood is a “Gun Free” zone?  How’s that “Gun Free” zone thing working for ya?

Your feel-good story of the day.

This British sniper scores a grand slam, sending six islamic terrorists to meet their little boys and 72 virgins in their afterlife with a single round fired.  Nice!  Now that’s ammo conservation!

We chuckled when we read the author of the story saying the sniper hit the “trigger switch”.

In a sense, that’s correct.  Hitting high explosives with a high-power rifle bullet tends to cause them to detonate.  So, you could say that the rifleman hit the trigger switch — any part of the explosive vest — causing the (premature) detonation of the explosives.

It brings back that line from the end of the movie “I Come in Peace”.

British sniper kills six Taliban with one bullet

A British sniper in Afghanistan killed six insurgents with a single bullet after hitting the trigger switch of a suicide bombe

I have no idea where Uncle found this, but I like it.

This is how border patrol checkpoints inside the USA should go…

It was posted on April 1, so that should tell you whether or not it is “real”.  It’s superlative though.

We’re growing.

Guns Save Life’s entry into the gun blog world in the third quarter of 2012 wasn’t without a bump or two (such as when our service provider literally pulled the rug out from under us), but we’ve grown.

We thought we would share our stats with the whole wide world…  and our advertisers.

Last quarter, we had almost 1.1m page views and 888,389 unique visitors.

Oh yeah, that’s just shy of 10,000 unique visitors per day.

Our US website ranking, per Alexa, as of this morning is 248,366

About 93% of our visitors are here in the good-old USA.  Surprisingly, less than 15% of our traffic is from here in Illinois, so our scope is nationwide, even though we’re an admittedly Illinois-centric blog, just as we’re an Illinois-centric gun rights organization.

When we started, we considered it a major milestone the first time we had a thousand unique visitors in