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This month, we’ve expanded to include a number of pages by and for our friends at LIVE FREE USA.  Guns Save Life has partnered with Live Free

You can download the new issue HERE.

Nice coverage in the State Journal-Register on SCRA’s new head!

    VIRDEN (State Journal-Register) — When Jim Butler decided 20 years as president of the Sangamon County Rifle Association was enough, he had his eye on Don Gwinn.

Every time it came up in conversation, Gwinn stayed noncommittal.

But last month, Butler officially stepped down, and Gwinn took his place.

A lifelong Virden resident, husband, father of three, recently retired volunteer emergency medical technician and a middle school teacher in Springfield, Gwinn, 35, has been involved in gun-rights activism for more than a decade.

In addition to being president of the SCRA, he sits on the board of Illinois Carry, an organization committed to advancing concealed carry in Illinois. He’s also a volunteer — a “people-wrangler,” he calls it — for Illinois Gun Owner Lobbying Day, where gun-rights supporters come from across th

Maryland’s governor Martin O’Malley and China’s Chairmain Mao: Both proponents of civilian disarmament.

Well, guess how Maryland Governor Oh-Mao-Lee sold his litany of strict gun control initiatives in early 2013?

The threat of gun violence “will never go away,” O’Malley said, “but the actions we take may well prevent another tragedy like that in Newtown, Connecticut. . . . It is possible we can make a difference.”

And, Governor, it’s possible your state’s strict gun control was the reason this angry ex-boyfriend of one of the victims thought he could get away with murdering her and her new boyfriend without any meaningful resistance.

He

Apparently there were sales to die for as three people are dead after a crazed, bad man with evil in his heart and a gun in his hands barged into a posted “NO GUNS” mall in Maryland and killed two people dead before offing himself today.

The mall where it happened, The Columbia Mall, is a gun-free zone.

That sure worked pretty well, didn’t it?

Remember this the next time you think about whether or not you want to visit a high-risk “no gun” zone.

Word has it there’s going to be a bill introduced early this coming session of the General Assembly to make it a Class A Misdemeanor for instructors fraudulently signing off on students who have not been trained to state-mandated minimums.  The catch?  It’s going to be a non-probational offense, meaning these instructors will not only lose their certifications, they will be spending from one to three hundred sixty-four days in jail.

We at Guns Save Life haven’t seen the formal language, but we support the basic premise behind the bill, and we’ll tell you why:  There’s way too much fraudulent training happening as ethically challenged instructors cut corners, oftentimes grossly short-changing students.  It needs to stop and being nice about asking instructors to do things properly hasn’t worked in most cases.

Want some examples?

Sure thing.

Example Number 1:  Equip 2 Conceal

Let’s start with Equip 2 Conceal, the company out of Flo

How cool is this!?

Guns Save Life is offering one of the new Glock 42s, compliments of our friends at 10-8 Outfitters in Bloomington, for our March 2014 monthly drawing gun at the Rantoul meeting.

Tickets are just $5 each.  If you want to mail order some tickets ($5 each, or 5 for $25, or 10 for $50, or 20 for $100, or any other multiple your heart desires), send a check to Guns Save Life, Attn: G42 drawing, PO Box 51, Savoy, IL 61874.  Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you would like to receive the stubs.

The drawing will be held Tuesday, March 11th at The Linden in Rantoul near the end of the March 2014 Rantoul GSL meeting.

Entries received after Monday, March 10th will be returned, unopened if addressed as above.

Quick Review:  I fondled one today that had just been purchased by a Decatur, IL police officer.  In a word:  Nice.  It’s a bit bigger than my KelTec P3AT, and a whisker heavier.  There’s more to grab hold of though and the trigger is the same classic Glo

They misused 62% of a Department of Justice grant.

Including paying the head cheese a $287k salary.

Gun grabbers just can’t help themselves.

Philly’s ‘Goods for Guns’ Program Misused Grant Funds: DOJ
By Vince Lattanzio

(NBC10) – An audit has charged a Philadelphia gun buyback program, which provided grocery gift cards in exchange for weapons, misused more than $450,000 in grant funds from the federal government.

Philadelphia Safety Net (PSN) received $800,000 in grants from the U.S. Department of Justice to run its “Goods for Guns” program from July 2010 through March 2012. The program would hold events where Philadelphia Police would collect guns and, in return, Philadelphia Safety Net would provide $100 grocery store gift cards.

The DOJ’s inspector general a

Photo from Aero Precision.

You can buy one of these receivers too, even if you’re not a low-information legislator – or even a low-information voter!

h/t GunFreeZone

They are inspired by this low-information legislator:

S&W says “thanks, but no thanks” to silly California anti-gun regulations dealing with gun registries and microstamping.  Even though California has the best looking Attorney General, according to President Barack Hussein Obama, that wasn’t enough to sway S&W.

By the way, where are all of the “War on Women” warriors decrying Obama’s comments about Harris? Hmm?

Hopefully S&W and its distributors will not sell to law enforcement or government agencies in California either.

(Breitbart) – On January 22nd renowned gun maker Smith & Wesson joined Sturm, Ruger, & Co., by announcing it would cease California sales of its semi-automatic pistols due to microstamping requirements that went into effect last

Screen grab from Tuesday, January 21.

Screen grab from Thursday, January 23rd.

The Illinois State Police’s implementation of the new Firearms Concealed Carry Act is working like a finely tuned, well-oiled machine it seems.

In talking with a couple of other folks who were also approved in the past three days, they too are all now “under review”.

One possible reason for the change of heart?

The Illinois State Police want to give line officers additional training on how to i

If an effeminate, spoiled-brat crooner isn’t your thing (just busted for driving under the influence and resisting arrest), then we invite you to check out the ABC News show 20/20 on January 31st.

They are scheduled to run a profile of the Armed Citizen Project, the group that gives away shotguns to families in low-income, high-crime neighborhoods in an effort to make it a more law-abiding, polite neighborhood.

They’ve been doing this for a couple of years now and Guns Save Life is a proud supporter and partner group of sorts, working to bring the program to Illinois.

The Illinois State Police proposed rulemaking announcement that medical marijuana card users would have to surrender their 2nd Amendment rights to use marijuana as a drug is probably not going to stand constitutional muster in the courts.

The Oregon Supreme Court ruled in 2011 that police have no grounds to strip gun rights from medical marijuana users solely for taking the drug.  Here’s a report from the Oregonian.

The Oregon Supreme Court ruled this morning that Oregon sheriffs have no grounds to deny concealed handgun licenses to the state’s 39,774 medical marijuana cardholders — solely because they use pot.

Specifically, the high court said Washington County Sheriff Rob Gordon and Jackson County Sheriff Michael Winters were wrong to deny concealed handgun permits to four law-abiding medical pot users on the basis that doing so would violate the federal Gun Control Act. The act states that “an unlawful user … of any controlled substance” can’t own a gun. The sheriff’s argued that the federal act trumps Oregon’s 13-year-old medical marijuana law, which unlike federal law legalizes pot possession for patients with qualifying a

Bruce Rauner:  The guy running a ton of commercials on TV in his campaign for the Republican nomination for governor has ginned up a lot of support.

That’s despite the fact his campaign manager Ron Gidwitz gave $5,000 to an anti gun group in Chicago.  Really.  Read all about it.

Here’s his version of the “Kerry for President” crass pandering shot seeking gun owner support:

Bruce Rauner and Ron Gidwitz. They say they support your gun rights, while Gidwitz is funding the anti-gunners. Then again, Barack Obama says the same thing about supporting our gun rights.

Remember this picture?

Illinois’ new medical marijuana law is pretty strict (not unlike the new concealed carry law).

One little bugaboo:  Those seeking a medical marijuana card would lose their rights to own or possess firearms in IL.

It’s all in the Chicago Tribune today:

Patients who want to qualify for medical marijuana in Illinois would have to be fingerprinted for a background check and pay $150 a year — and give up their right to own a gun, state officials proposed Tuesday.

The plan outlines how adults who have any of 41 specified medical cond

Little Miss Barbie Doll Wendy Davis.

PANDER:

pan·der
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noun Also, pan·der·er.
1.  a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
2.  a person who caters to or profits from the weaknesses or vices of others.
3.  a go-between in amorous intrigues.
verb (used without object)
4.  to act as a pander; cater basely: to pander to the vile tastes of vulgar persons.
verb (used with object)
5.  to act as a pander for.

Wendy Davis, woman who worked to drive gun shows off of Ft. Worth, Texas city property when she was on the city council there, has tried to deflect attention from a litany of scandals by shamelessly pandering to gun owners

Illinois State Representative Laura Fine was planning on holding a virulently anti-gun town hall meeting Wednesday evening in her district to lambast the new Illinois carry bill.

On deck to support her was the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office.

The plan:  frighten her constituents with baseless fear-based demagoguery and emotional tugs on the heartstrings.  No doubt blood dancing and bloody shirt waving was on the agenda for little Laura Fine.

The silly little woman was rumored to want to use the event to launch a campaign seek the repeal of Illinois’ new carry bill at the event.  Like that’s gonna happen.

Nobody ever accused her of being forward thinking.  Unless you count “Forward” in the sense of Barack Obama’s campaign slogan (and the old communist use of the word in their campaign propaganda).

Well, our friend

Andy over at Ace of Spades has a fabulous review of Lone Survivor.

There’s spoilers there, and here’s the deal:  It’s like Titanic.

The boat sinks.

Spoiler in this movie:  They all die except Marcus.

And they kill a whole lot of Taliban riff-raff along the way.

Anyway, Andy does a magnificent job on a magnificent movie.

I saw the movie last week.

I was reluctant to watch it as I figured it would be like Saving Private Ryan was at  the end.  In that movie, I might have wept like a little schoolgirl at the end, just like everyone else in the theater that day.  They should have issued Kleenex at Saving Private Ryan.

Lone Survivor wasn’t as intense as that, but it was still emotional at the end.

Read his review.  It’s superlative and spot on in every respect.

Ace of Spades

The film in one word: Intense

My Moron recommen

JOIN US! Join Tom Shafer, Don Gwinn, Brent Harney and all the other regulars on Monday, February 3rd for a fun evening of gun rights and good fellowship at the Sangamon County Rifle Association meeting. We’re at the Supreme Buffet on S. MacArthur Blvd. in Springfield. Come out and eat around 5:30. Meeting begins at 6:30.

by Don Gwinn
Sangamon County Rifle Association Chairman

(GunsSaveLife) -  My friends, I hope you’ve enjoyed the holidays and the Polar Vortex, because it’s about to get pretty busy around here for anyone with an interest in gun rights.

Law makers, local business owners and national corporations are all going to be making big decisions about gun rights in Springfield and Illinois soon, with some of the biggest being what role to play in implementing, blocking, or ignoring the arrival of private citizens with hard-won carry permits and

Harvey Weinstein at some Hollywood fete. Weinstein is far outside mainstream America in the make-believe world of Hollywood.  He does associate with real Americans (see above), so it’s not surprising his beliefs would be so far out-of-touch with America.

A fabulous commentary piece by Jonathon Tobin at Commentary Magazine entitled Guns, Hollywood Hypocrisy, and the NRA.

Here’s the money quote:

As we have seen in the last year, grass roots support for the rights of gun owners has repeatedly trumped big-money campaigns funded by people such as former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others who agree with Weinstein. As long as the political left and its Hollywood ATM machines keep showing their contempt for the Constitution,

How quickly can things go sideways?

This body camera recording a police encounter shows how quickly things can go from an uncooperative driver who just had a car crash threatening to cut himself to a deadly force encounter.

The cop makes contact with the guy about 1:40.

The guy advances on the drawn gun of the cop and despite repeated commands to stay back, to drop it and retreating by the cop (sound familiar for those of you who have had training?), less than ten seconds later, the cop fires repeatedly.

Good shoot?

You bet.

If you’ve got a drawn gun on someone who is acting irrationally (threatening to cut yourself is irrational behavior, as is refusing to discuss a simple incident) and they advance upon you, that should be a clue that things aren’t going to end well for one party or another.  If you’re unable to retreat with complete safety, then it’s up to you to decide which half of that equation will go home to their family and loved ones.

The video is also a good lesson about being able to handle your gear.  If you’re fumbling a draw or grip on your gun as Mr. Knife Wielder is advancing on you, particularly within 21 feet as was the case in this video, then you’re probably going to be toast.