Guns Save Life

Jermalle Brown (pictured) and Douglas Bufford were gang members hired to help combat violence on the South Side. In July 2012, they allegedly broke into a Grand Crossing home with one other man and announced a robbery. Bufford was fatally shot in the back of the head, and Brown and an associate face murder charges tied to the shooting. Photo and caption Sun-Times.

Chicago isn’t safe.

We’ve said that over and over.

And there’s more news detailing just how unsafe Chicago is and how Illinois Democrat Governor Pat Quinn seems to be adding gasoline to the fire instead of helping to solve Chicago’s violent crime problem.

One of our members tipped me off to a post by GSL’s Jim Sharp at AR-15.com.  I made it into a picture.

Mitch McConnell brought a rifle out and presented it to Sen. Tom Coburn today at the CPAC convention in a crass display of pandering.

Mitch McConnell uses a gun to pander to conservatives.

His action today was patently offensive given his record.

Does he think we’re stupid or what?

by Tim Giblin
of Train Illinois

Dry firing is truly a necessity. Very few people have a location where they can shoot near their home anymore. With a twenty-minute-or-greater commute to the range becoming more common, most people simply don’t have the time to shoot regularly. Coupled with a true scarcity in .22s created by so many first-time shooters and with soaring ammo prices, range trips are quickly becoming a rare luxury for most. Making the most of our range trips starts with practicing at home. So, in this article, I’m going to talk about about dry firing. It has some serious advantages, and some very dangerous risks.

Dry firing is a dangerous activity. It promotes da

It’s interesting that eBay won’t allow legitimate gun sales at their online “auction” house, but they seem to have no problem with people selling stolen smart phones.

Judging by the number of stolen cell phones offered for sale on eBay, it’s a dumping ground for people to offload their stolen phones.

Go over to eBay and search for “Bad ESN”.  Here, we’ll do it for you.  Here’s the link.

How do we know “Bad ESN” phones are stolen?

Well, there’s only one reason a phone has a “bad esn” and that’s because it’s been blacklisted by a carrier as “lost” or stolen.

Check out more on this from Karl Denninger’s The Market Ticker.

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Mom finds a strange man in her home in the middle of the night.

She thinks he’s a burglar until the 15-year-old daughter says it’s her “boyfriend” that she met via social media.

Mom calls the police and holds the 23-year-old so-called “boyfriend” for police – at gunpoint until five-oh arrived.   Police then promptly arrest him for their equivalent of statutory rape.

Deputies: Fort Mill mom held man at gunpoint after he had sex with her teen daughter

FORT MILL, SC (WBTV) – A Fort Mill mom wants to send a message to parents after she caught her 15-year-old daughter having sex with a man

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Thousands of Prairie State gun owners braved very cold temperatures and wind-chills in Springfield to march seven blocks to the Illinois State Capitol building to promote gun rights and self-defense on Wednesday, March 5th.

It was the eighth annual IGOLD event, sponsored by the Illinois State Rifle Association, in conjunction with IllinoisCarry.com, Guns Save Life, the Sangamon County Rifle Association and the McHenry County Right to Carry Association.   In a nation where gun control advocates cannot even turn out more than a dozen agitators to promote civilian disarmament, the IGOLD rally is a prime example of what genuine grassroots activism is all about.

Participants met at the Prairie Capital Convention Center (posted “No Guns” by the way), where speakers charged up the audience, and gave them instructions for successful participation.

Best estimates put the crowd this year at roughly 2,000, down sharply from last year.  It was still two orders of magnitude better than our

Weerd at Weer’d World would like to have a national discussion, but not necessarily completely about guns.

Instead, he’s asking for a discussion regarding the disproportionate – massively disproportionate – representation of blacks in crime stats.

There seems to be a cultural problem among black families in America.  Perhaps there’s too much dead-end “hip hop” / “gangster” culture, or perhaps it’s too many fatherless families or any number of a host of issues.

Blaming guns for the violence committed by these young men is not going to make this problem go away.

Anyway, here is a clip from Weerd Beard’s post:

Still I’d like to step into dangerous waters for a second. The antis keep crowing that we need a “National Discussion on Guns”. Well we had that over a decade ago, and people decided that guns were something we should embrace, not shun. The public safety numbers show this was 100% the correct move, even if you don’t believe in a natural right to defensive arms.

Still there is something we need to have a national discussion on:

You can deny reality, but that doesn’t make it true any more than it does for a whining three-year-old’s temper tantrum.

Glenn Reynolds nails it in his USA Today column.

This past weekend, the Tennessee Law Review held a symposium on “New Frontiers in the Second Amendment.” It was a follow-up, of sorts, to a

Facebook offers a chance for people to self-identify as idiots and bigots.

Witness these comments on the Chicago Tribune’s Facebook page regarding their story about Illinois mailing the first batch of carry licenses.

Dan Hensley Everyone PLEASE watch what you do around others in public! The slightest thing that could be perceived as a threat will be enough justification for you to end up dead under this new concealed carry law! PLEASE watch your posture, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, the clothes you wear (that means hoodies, too

Look for Obama to attack gun rights in America soon to distract from his abysmal weakness in dealing with Putin and the Russians over the Ukrainian situation.

First, a shout out to Scott Bowyer for letting me know Channel 15 was looking for a license holder for the story.

Channel 15, WICD Champaign, was looking for a CCW licensee today to do a story on “what’s changed” since the license arrived.  Heather Good from the station met me at an undisclosed secret bunker under an nondescript brick and steel building and did a short interview with me.

The local station led off their 6p news with the story.

Here it is.   (They have no imbed code.)

Moms Demand Action never looked this good, even from the get go. Today, they are more like “Moms With Leprosy Demand Action”.

Moms Demand Action’s star is fading fast.

The wholly Bloomberg-owned subsidiary of Michael Bloomberg and his Mayors Against Gun Ownership (or something like that) went to Staples Corporate HQ today to hand off petitions with a measly 12,000 signatures demanding Staples ban guns in their stores.

Not only would nobody from the company meet with them – not even the mail clerk – but Staples “asked them to leave”.

Let me run that throu

The Chicago Tribune has the story of a business owner and pillar of the community shot to death in Chicago.

Chicago isn’t safe, folks.

Burn that into your minds.

Chicago isn’t safe.

Chicago (Tribune) – The 66-year-old proprietor of a Gold Coast framing company was gunned down over the weekend at the Southwest Side factory complex where he had worked for 30 years, police and family members said.

Described by his son as a jack of all trades and animal lover, Herbert Goode was the owner of Silver Cloud Galleries, a custom framing company with a storefront at 20 W. Ohio St.

He was a donor and volunteer to animal welfare organizations and had been active in local school boards and the Boy Scouts of America, his son, Alex Goode

Found this in the spam filter.

We’re flattered they mentioned us, but clearly, money isn’t buying reading comprehension among the employees working at CSGV.

Here’s the original text in the article cited:

How long will it be before there is bloodshed over this law?  We’re not sure, but we’re confident it is coming unless the law is rescinded or struck down by the courts.

Does that read like we’re going to go shoot us up some Connecticut State Police men, women, and fashion disasters?

Oh well, it’s not like CSGV doesn’t already have the reputation for making up falsehoods out of nothingness.

How does it feel, CSGV, to need to rely on deception, dishonesty and downright falsehoods to promote your flawed message?

Don’t by shy.

IGOLD – the Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day – is a fantastic, fun experience that makes quite an impression on legislators and political observers both in Illinois and beyond.

Go.

Really. Go.

You’ll be among thousands of your closest friends.

And, from Valinda Rowe at Illinois Carry:

Greeters needed.

If you arrive early for IGOLD, we will need “greeters” to hand out the IGOLD packets as people enter the convention all.  The packets and pens will be stacked on the tables inside each door.

All you have to do is hand them a packet, a smile, and “Welcome to IGOLD”!

When you arrive, if you see an unstaffed packet table, please, step right in and start handing out packets!!

Thank you!

For bus information, visit the Illinois

Dom Raso explains why keeping law-abiding gun owners out of private businesses is a mistake.

Can you imagine something so kooky as posting your home that you’re wishing to sell as a “gun free zone” where prospective real estate agents wishing to show your house, along with prospective buyers would be forbidden from carrying inside?

From the Chicago Tribune:

Late last week, … the Illinois Association of Realtors unveiled a consent form that could take the conversation between real estate agents and home sellers into uncharted territory.

The form, if realty firms and agents choose to use it, allows homeowners to specify whether they would allow a potential buyer with a concealed firearm inside their property.

If the seller says “no,” an agent would display the state-authorized sign, a drawing of a black gun with a red circle and line through it, outside the home during all showings

Connecticut Carry, a pro-civil rights organization in Connecticut dedicated to expanding that state’s carry laws and increasing the numbers of people with carry permits, has published a press release challenging the State of Connecticut to enforce their tyrannical gun registration law that made felons of potentially a hundred thousand or more gun owners in that state or to repeal the law.

Here it is:

To Officials of the State of Connecticut: Either Enforce or Repeal 2013 Anti-gun Laws.

It’s time for the State to enforce the tyranny they passed or repeal it entirely.

Rocky Hill CT, March 3, 2014:

A recent media tidal wave based on false reports and bad journalism has proven a few things about the 2013 Gun Ban:  people from Connecticut and around the nation are tired of being threatened; are ready to make a stand; and the