Guns Save Life

Last January, at the height of the Sandy Hook hysteria, the Ohio National Guard held a training exercise.

The “bad guys”?

Strict Constructionist Constitutional supporters of the Second Amendment.  (Keep in mind that link is to the left-of-center Wiki).

When pressed about the scenario involving Second Amendment supporters by a reporter representing Media Trackers, Ohio National Guard Communications Director James Sims II hung up after claiming the Second Amendment scenario didn’t really portray gun rights activists as bad guys.

Oh really?

The

America’s favorite rifle is America’s favorite rifle.

Anti-gun politicians, including New York State’s Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo, think they can wave a magic wand and the marketplace will respect their arbitrary and capricious edicts without adapting?

These gun haters are about as smart as a gun.

Or a hammer.

Or a club.

Introducing the New York “SAFE Act”-legal AR-15.

It’s got anti-gunners seething with anger.

Clash Daily has the story:

(Clash Daily) – Prototypes for the newly designed AR-15 are hitting gun shops across New York, as gun shops and machinists have designed a rifle that complies with the anti-gun

Wendy Davis, darling of the far-left wing of the Democrat Party in Texas, has in recent days – as her campaign for governor crumbled around her thanks to her discredited lies – discovered her new-found interest in supporting Texans’ right to open carry.

Yeah, we chuckled too.

We were amused – and then bemused – at her sudden change of heart on guns.  After all, she is an NRA F-rated candidate and you have to work to earn that failing grade from the NRA.

Unfortunately for poor Wendy, her crass pandering…

yes, pandering:

[pan-der]

We’ve been getting “concerned” emails of late about rumors of a new gun registration bill in the Illinois House.

It’s true.  There is such a bill.  Representative Kelly M. Cassidy (D-Moonbatteryland) has introduced House Bill 4715 – a firearm registration bill.

Here’s the summary:

Creates the Firearms Registration Act. Provides that every person in the State must register each firearm he or she owns or possesses in accordance with the Act. Provides that a person shall not purchase or possess ammunition within this State without having first obtained a registration certificate identifying a firearm that is suitable for use with that ammunition, or a receipt demonstrating that the person has applied to register a suitable firearm under the Act and that the application is pending. Provides that the Department of State Police must complete a background check of any person who applies for: (1) a registration certificate for a firearm that was lawfully owned or possessed on the effective date of the Act, was brought into the State by a new resident, or was acquired by operation of

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns has suffered a 15% drop in membership since the Newtown tragedy, losing 161 members in that time.

The losses stem from both members who felt misled as to the group’s goals to members expelled because of criminal misdeeds.

Meanwhile, the NRA has grown from 3+ million before Newtown to over 5 million today.

From the Washington Examiner:

As it has broadened its attacks on lawmakers and Second Amendment groups like the National Rifle Association, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s aggressive “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” group has experienced a sharp 15-percent drop in mayor-members.

According to a new count, the group’s membership has gone from a high of 1,046 following the shootings at Newtown, Conn.’s Sandy Hook Elementary

The new Remington R51 pistol is actually getting more digital and dead tree ink than the new G2 Research RIP 9mm round, if that’s actually possible.

We saw how the hype is just that with the new R.I.P. round and it looks as though an unbiased look at the R51 by Nick Leghorn over at The Truth About Guns reveals some profound problems with Remington’s new pistola.

Overall Rating: * *
It’s a great concept, but there are serious design flaws that shouldn’t be acceptable in a modern firearm. For a gun that’s being marketed to new shooters and people with a freshly-printed concealed carry license, it’s way too easy to re-assemble the gun incorrectly. And the painful shooting experience will keep people from putting much time into practicing with the gun.

If you’re thinking of buying one for carry, here a

Sorry about the formatting.

Pontiac, IL police policies and procedures on the new concealed carry licenses in Illinois.

For your information only.

by John Boch

Perusing IllinoisCarry this morning and saw a post that gave me pause.

ajg2014 Posted 07 February 2014 – 08:03 PM

A week after taking his IL and FL CCW class, I had a situation that I never expected to have.  At 7:30 in the morning someone started knocking at my door.  The knocks turned into bangs and my wife and children were all scared.  I decided that I needed to to do something.  I grabbed my gun and loaded a magazine, chambered a round and holstered it.  I then went outside to confront this guy.  A few weeks ago, I would have been nervous and unsure of myself.  I now had a clear understanding of what I needed to do and what I might have to do if things got ugly.  I walked outside and drew my weapon and was ready.  It’s amazing how things change quickly when you’re looking down the barrel

Former anti-gun Massachusetts State Representative Carlos Henriquez probably doesn’t like the sex available to him in jail.

Why are gun control proponents such control freaks?  Why are they so violent?

Massachusetts State Representative Carlos Henriquez should be a poster-child for the “War on Women” meme that national Democrats have delivered to us for almost two years now.

The anti-gun Henriquez was a member of the Massachusetts House in July 2012 when he was charged with domestic kidnapping and domestic assault and battery.  …of a college student who met him while working on a class project.  From the Boston Globe:

Representative Carlos

…have a message for you.

It’s Sunday.  Time for some lighter fare.

This is wonderful, four-minute video.  Turn up the volume and pay attention to this guy.  He is very humorous in his pointed satire of a proposed local ordinance to ban “loaded carry” to “make Ashland safer”.   How he delivered this with such a straight face is beyond me.

The story behind the video?  From YouTube:

Published on Feb 7, 2014

2014-02-04
Ashland Oregon

A citizen speaks to the City Council in opposition to a local “loaded carry” ban ordinance one of the Councilors has brought for consideration. No facts, figures, statistics, or other evidence of any existing problem has been presented by the sponsoring Councilor. She has however, made emotional pleas to “protect the children”, dropped the “Sandy Hook” t

Move over Maxim. American Rifleman bumps Maxim magazine off top 25 list.

How about that…

American Rifleman bumped Maxim magazine off to enter the top 25 titles, in circulation, as reported by the Alliance for Audited Media.

From Ad Age:

American Rifleman, one of the magazines that members of the National Rifle Association can receive as part of their membership, posted a 29.3% boost in circulation in the second half of last year, compared with the second half of 2012, according to new numbers released Thursday by the Alliance for Audited Media, which tracks magazine circulation. That leap, to an average circulation of 2.2 million from 1.7 million, was enough to propel Ame

Why are anti-gun activists so violent?

Could it be the manifestation of psychological projection in their fears of gun owners?

In any event, the at-times violent, anti-gun activist and jailed Massachusetts State Representative Carlos Henriquez was expelled from the Massachusetts House today by a 146-5 vote.

His transgression?

He beat the daylights out of a then-girlfriend for refusing to have sex with him.

Nice guy, huh?  Just the type of guy you would like your daughter to date and marry, right?

And guess who was arguing to keep him in office?

The anti-gun NAACP.

How shameful and disgusting.

One nice thing the ISRA does is publish an update every Thursday.

This week, they included an “Executive Director’s Message”.

I don’t know if Pearson’s ghost writer wrote it or if he wrote it himself, but in either event, bravo.

Pearson writes about the dead actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman, writing that he was hardly a role model.  We agree, unless you aspire to be a spoiled, selfish, drug-addled “guy” who can’t – despite great privilege – hold things together.

If you want to mourn the loss of a great life, how about Tyler Doohan…

Don’t recognize the name?

He hasn’t gotten near the ink Hoffman’s death has received, even though he was a hundred times the man at all of eight years of age that Hoffman ever was.

Doohan was the courageous eight-year-old boy who  rescued six relatives from a house fire,  but died while trying to save his disabled grandfather from the burning trailer.

Here’s a kid who made multiple trips into a burning structure to rescue innocents, and he perished on his last trip inside.  Unlike the drug addict Hoffman, who died with a needle in his arm, this boy was a real role model and genuine hero.

Good guys with a gun are the only thing that stops bad guys with evil in their hearts.

That was the case Wednesday, February 5th in Perry, Florida, as a disgruntled employee for Timberland Ford crashed his truck through a display window and came out blazing with a semi-auto shotgun.

The violent attacker (scumbag’s name redacted) was shot dead right there by a sheriff’s deputy getting his squad car serviced less than sixty seconds after the incident began.

It was nothing more than a random act of violence, and in this case, a good guy with a gun was there to truncate the bad guy and his evil intentions.

We have no doubt the perverse irony that Moms Demand Action (Go to a singles bar, girls), the Coalition Against Gun Violence, the Violence “Policy” Center and all the rest of the paid shills for gun contro

Author Curtis Johnson with a sample of his 19th century gun collection. Click for full size.

“Judicial Candidate Grosboll to Hold Event on 19th Century Gun Makers”

Citizens to elect Gabe Grosboll as Menard County Judge are holding an event on Saturday, March 1st, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. at Gillmore’s Cafe in Petersburg, IL featuring author Curtis Johnson who will speak on 19th century gun makers from central Illinois.  His presentation will largely focus on Illinois gun makers from the 1840’s to the 1890’s.

“Central Illinois had quite a number of makers.  One of the more notable was Robert Bishop, who made rifles in Petersburg from the time of his arrival in 1841, until at least as late as 1881,” said Johnson.

Mr. Johnson will speak on this topic and bring a sample of rifles from th

(Southtown Star) – A black gun with a red slash through it.

It is a sign of the times, as well as a sign that is sure to become ubiquitous.

School officials want the public to know that in compliance with state law (House Bill 0183), schools, churches, government agencies and liquor stores statewide will be posting 4-by-6-inch stickers reminding the public, particularly those with a concealed-carry license, that there are limits on where a gun can be carried.

While schools didn’t allow guns even before the concealed-carry law was passed, they still are required to display the reminder. Some officials are questioning the mandate, and some find the sticker image disturbing.

Our so-called educators, gun-fearing and gun-hating, are trotting to the mainstream me

If you see Terry Zeiters (left) or Wayne Jensen (right), wish the congratulations on their winning the monthly gun drawing. Jensen came away with the home defense shotgun. Zeiters on a rimfire steel plate rack.

Over two dozen folks braved what were supposed to be terrible winter conditions to attend the Pontiac GSL meeting Tuesday evening.

In the end, the weatherman was wrong, and the roads weren’t that bad.

Guns Save Life’s Pontiac regional coordinator John Gahm led the meeting, where we discussed the latest news and information about gun rights, right-to-carry and more.  We met a candidate for sheriff, Jack Wiser.

GSL’s president John Boch spoke about concealed carry “insurance” policies, explaining some fundamental differences between the differing / competing “policies”.

by Tim Giblin
(GunsSaveLife) – There is always a new and improved tool (or toy) to make us “better”. The reality is, no one has time for that type of constant experimentation. This article is an attempt to present a very simple concept: consistency trumps potential any day of the week.

Something may be better, but if you don’t practice and have experience with it, most of the time, it’s simply not going to be better for you. Sure, you might get under a one-second draw every eighth try. However, without a subconscious understanding of the new holster because you got it yesterday, you’re going to miss the grip when you’re not in that textbook shooting stance.

So many are talking about carrying a “BUG” (back-up gun) for every day carry, and three spare magazines. Well, as someone that has legally carried for years, I can tell you that such a set up will last about three weeks.

I’m not s

He’s No Tom Dart!
Champaign County Sheriff Dan Walsh, pictured here at the January 2014 GSL meeting in Rantoul, is no Tom Dart when it comes to attitudes about law-abiding civilians owning, possessing and carrying guns. Cook County’s Dart eschews civilians with guns. Walsh looks upon them as an ally against violent crime.

Champaign County’s highest law-enforcement official, Sheriff Dan Walsh, was our first speaker of the evening at the January 14, 2014 Guns Save Life meeting in Rantoul, IL.  He tackled some of the questions on everyone’s mind about the new concealed carry bill.

“This is a miserably written law that’s very difficult to read,” Walsh began.  He’s got no shortage of criticisms of the law law and its provisions – and to a lesser extent the Illinois State Police’s re-invention of the wheel in terms of how to implement carry in Illinois.<