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Norton “Connect Safe” is blocking Guns Save Life from public access at locations that use their software by labeling us as “pornography”.

If it wasn’t a serious matter of our civil rights, it would be laughable.

Here’s their email.  Contact them and ask them to remove GunsSaveLife.com from their “porn” website list.

connectsafe_dispute@symantec.com

connectsafe_dispute@symantec.com

When you see Facebook, think “My Space” and we’ll tell you why:  Teens are increasingly disinterested in Facebook as it’s no longer seen as the “hip” place to be.  As Facebook struggles to stay afloat with increasing ad revenue, subjecting users to pesky ads at a growing rate, they risk alienating people posting pictures of their pets or babies or passing around mindless memes.

Then there are problems with the “Click Farms” that provide thousands of “likes” for a few hundred bucks.  The only problem is these people only serve to dilute any message you wish to get out to the world on your Facebook social media.  Read up on this trainwreck here and here.

And now news breaks that Facebook is considering changing their policy on gun-themed Facebook pages.

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While the Democrats in Connecticut are trying to figure out how to handle mass non-compliance of their gun registration bill, Democrats in New Jersey are looking to skip registration and proceed directly to confiscation and arrests of gun owners.

Is civil war on the horizon?

(Washington Times) – New Jersey has become ground zero this year for legislative battles over gun control.

The Brady Campaign ranked the state third in the nation for most restrictive firearms laws, yet anti-gun Democrats who control the legislature are determined to go all the way to gun bans and confiscation.

The New Jersey Assembly’s Law and Public Safety Committee was scheduled to hold a public hearing on Monday (postponed for snow) about a bill that reduces the maximum magazine capacity from 15 to 10.

Since the legislation covers both detachable and fixed magazines, it has the effect of to banning popular, low

Chicago police guard the entrance to a parking garage on East Randolph Street, between State Street and Wabash Avenue, after a man was found dead there Thursday. (Phil Velasquez, Chicago Tribune / February 27, 2014)

Imagine that…  a person with less than noble intentions in his heart ignored the “NO GUNS” prohibition sign and shot himself.

Thank heavens he didn’t try to carjack a couple and kill a productive citizen in that “no guns” zone – as happened in New Jersey a short while back.

The only thing that stops bad men with evil in their heart is a good guy with a gun.

(BBC) – An attack by knife-wielding men at a railway station in Kunming in south-west China has left at least 29 dead, the state news agency Xinhua says.

Another 130 people were wounded in what authorities said was a “premeditated, violent terrorist attack”.

Four suspects were shot dead, one arrested and other are being sought Xinhua said.

City officials said evidence implicated militants from the western region of Xinjiang, but this was not verified.

Ya know, when you raffle a gun for a charitable cause, the gun haters quickly self-identify for your convenience.

It always happens.

In fact, you don’t even have to raffle a gun, but just offer it as a sales bonus or incentive, like one car dealership did recently – offering a free shotgun on the purchase of a new car.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote about a girls’ softball team raffling a Taurus Judge to raise money.

You would think the end of the world is near.  A person who didn’t even have the courage to identify themselves started the mainstream media knee-jerk reaction.

LOGANVILLE, Ga. — A girls softball team is raffling off a handgun as a fundraiser and some parents don’t think that’s a good idea

FoxNews published a story a few days ago illustrating how gun control kills.  It got lost in the shuffle of moving, but it’s certainly worth a look.

Bad guys with guns aren’t stopped by laws.

They’re stopped by good guys with guns.

FoxNews has the story.

By Nicole Goeser

(FoxNews) – In April 2009, my husband was shot six times in front of me in the middle of a busy restaurant by a man who was stalking me. I have a permit to carry a handgun but because of the law at that time in my home state of Tennessee, I had to leave the gun that I normally carried for self defense, l

Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars has a man-size set of cajones.

Made of cast iron.

He posted the home addresses and in some cases, phone numbers, of Connecticut legislators voting to mandate gun owners register America’s favorite rifle and lots of others with similar features.

And the magazines to go with those guns.

We believe this Connecticut gun registration scheme isn’t going to go well and that blood will be spilled…  on both sides.

And there are plenty of Connecticut State Police willing to violate their oath to enforce this unconstitutional mandate.

Here’s one:

Back to Vanderboegh.  Here’s a snippet from his post:

Pontiac Guns Save Life meeting at the Pontiac VFW
Tuesday March 4th
Kitchen opens at 5 – 5:30, meeting begins at 7:00
Pontiac Police will present a Power Point presentation on Conceal Carry

Speakers are Dr. David Pike and retired FBI Agent Frank Wright. They will talk about Personal Protection in the home and building your own AR.

March drawing gun is a Taurus PT-111 Millennium G2 9mm

IGOLD seats are available for the Pontiac bus, March 5th trip to Springfield
Please contact me to reserve seats.

Thousands of licenses went out in the mail Friday and Saturday, as we had noted last week.

It even made national news, as Hot Air and plenty of other sites covered the story.

Yes, almost fifteen months after the federal appeals court mandated Illinois adopt right-to-carry – “or else”, we finally have licenses in hand.

Yes, we are cutting edge here at Guns Save Life in reporting on how Illinois re-invented the wheel when it comes to carry licenses, pretty much ignoring the 49 other states that had carry initially.

Some of our critics are particularly eager and fond to point out when our reports of preliminary information turn out wrong, but then again, those same critics are about as cutting edge as the magazines you so typically find in doctor and dentist office waiting rooms.

Reports have it that 5,000 were mailed last week

It’s moving day today and tomorrow.

by John Boch

I really enjoy Liam Neeson.

“Taken” was one movie of his that’s among a handful that I keep around to watch from time to time – movies like Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

I guarantee you “Non-Stop” won’t be among that select few.

In Non-Stop, Air Marshal Liam Neeson is fighting about someone sending him text messages and killing people on an airliner.

It’s the guy who wants to go to Amsterdam that you see at the beginning of the movie.  The guy who says he’s a teacher with glasses.

Did I spoil the movie for you?

Good and I’ll tell you why:  This movie is pure Hollywood trash.

The bad guy in the movie is a former US Army Ranger – one of the nation’s most elite fighting men – who has gone off the reservation.  He believes in the Constituti

These two mutts broke into a house and attacked a teenager inside.

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (WCNC) — A Kannapolis teen is recovering after his second home invasion in two weeks – but this time he managed to shoot one of his attackers during the assault.

“I pulled out a gun and shot one of them,” said Chris Ludwick, 19.

Ludwick said he shot at the men four times with a .22-caliber pistol that his father gave him after the first home invasion on February 7.  He was prepared when the men broke down the back door just before 4:30 a.m. Sunday.

“I was sleeping and was woken up to a disturbing outrage,” said Ludwick, “and they came inside my house and started trying to beat me up.”

Ludwick has cuts on his face and four staples in the back of his head from where one of the men grabbed the gun and pistol whipped him after the shooting.

Oka

IDNR released a Q&A on CCW & hunting in IL. (It’s a .pdf.)

Worth a read if you engage in hunting or outdoor activities on IDNR land.

Apologies in advance about formatting issues.

CONCEALED CARRY PERMIT QUESTIONS & ANSWERS RELATED TO HUNTING IN ILLINOIS

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) reminds Illinois Concealed Carry Permit holders that they must comply with current wildlife code laws and regulations while hunting in Illinois. Below are some common questions and answers to help guide Concealed Carry Permit holders who hunt on or utilize IDNR properties
1) May a person possessing a valid Illinois Concealed Carry Permit carry a concealed firearm when deer or turkey hunting?

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The political commentary segments from the NRA are masterfully done.

This one from Natalie Foster is very good.

One line early on that caught my ear:  “I can name five mass murderers off the top of my head but I couldn’t name five of their victims if I tried.”

“The media becomes complicit in the next tragedy,” she said.

She asks why the surviving Boston terrorist bomber rated a cover photo on Rolling Stone magazine.

She notes that we are rewarding these killers with the immortality that they are seeking.

That’s why, here at Guns Save Life, we will not publish the names of spree killers.  We’re reluctant to publish their likeness unless it’s to ridicule them.

Watch the video.  It’s good.

Miguel at Gun Free Zone (put it on your regular reading list) has a great story today comparing the nations of Iraq (where residents have some semblance of a right to keep firearms in their homes) to Venezuela (a supposed democracy where residents have NO right to keep firearms).

Interesting juxtaposition.

Iraq: 
Area: 435,052 km2  (169,234 sq mi)
Population: 36,004,552
Deaths in 2013 (Deadliest year since 2008): 7,000+

Venezuela: 
Area: 916,445 km2 (353,841 sq m

The National Rifle Association has an affinity program with VISA, whereby its 5 million plus members earn sort of an equivalent of a “cash back” program for the NRA on purchases made with the cards.  The NRA says over $20 million has been raised through the program over the years.

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Ownership can’t stand that.

Their naive handful of “members” (useful idiots) are herded by paid shills prostituted by grants from Soros, Bloomberg, et al.

In recent days, the paid shills herded a merry band of fifteen or so to turn out at a satellite office of VISA in Washington to deliver petitions with — wait for it — more than 5100 people urging VISA to abandon the NRA VISA affiliate program.

5100 signatures.

Truly now, CSGV must be mentally ill to think VISA is going to abandon a profitable business arrangement that has netted VISA tens of millions of dollars because they received 5,100 signat

Nancy Grace and CNN are meant for one another.

She’s a complete drama queen, completely willing to try to make a dry dog turd into a major news story to retain her handful of low-information viewers.

Then again, what do you expect from CNN, a network who tries to peddle make-believe analysis about gun ownership rates as fact?

In recent days, she tried to make George Zimmerman’s meager assemblage of self-defense firearms into, well, an OUTRAGE!

“STUNNING… new evidence revealing GEORGE… ZIMMERMAN’S… SHOCKING… ARSENAL… of guns and ammo.”

Here it is if you want to subject yourself to her idiocy.

You won’t miss any

The Quad City Times reported it and one of our sources confirmed it:

Look for the ISP to hold a news conference late Friday to announcing the mailing of CCW permits.

Some may have them as soon as Monday.

At this point, we’re unsure how many folks they are going to release licenses to – licenses that in some cases were approved weeks ago.  Our best guestimate is that they will keep everyone waiting about ten weeks before they get their license – if they got fingerprinted.  If not, add four weeks.

It’s Illinois, after all.  We can’t make things easy.  Or fast.  Or cheap.

In any event, criminals beware.

The rules of the game have changed and your world will become a lot more hazardous starting next week.

From the QC Times:

by John Boch

We posted a story about the extremely low rates of Firearm Owner Identification Card revocation earlier today.  In short, Illinois gun owners have less than four-tenths of one percent rate of FOID revocation, and most of the reasons for revocation have nothing to do with a criminal conviction – but in fact many are pulled for mere arrests.

We know of one case where a life-long FOID cardholder and GSL member was arrested by Urbana Police early last year on charges of burglary and felony theft related to metal theft.

Trust us…  we have zero sympathies for thieves.  Doubly so for scrap metal thieves who destroy perfectly good machines and structures to steal a few hundred bucks’ worth of scrap metal.  Our philosophy on people who do such things is about the same as we would do for child molesters, rapists, murderers and corrupt politicians:  Lightpole.